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These Days, Reading Means Editing

September 22, 2006 By Will Richardson

Just in case anyone is interested, here’s the opening graph of my recent post at The Pulse:

So here’s the question: as you lit on this post and made the decision to start reading it, are you reading it differently from the way you read today’s newspaper or the latest best-seller laying by your bedside? Not interms of one word after another, left to right sort of thing. I mean in terms of the way in which your brain takes in the words, processes them,makes decisions about them. Believes them. Is the process different, somehow?
It should be…

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Filed Under: Connective Reading

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  1. TheBizofKnowledge says

    September 22, 2006 at 6:46 pm

    Fantastic article, and I completely agree with you! I can’t believe the number of people that just blindly accept whatever they read in blogs or other personal sites (heck, even Wikipedia) without stopping for a moment to consider the credibility of the author or the truthfulness of the claims. Thanks for the reminder that we do indeed have to read differently these days!

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