Sunday, June 22, 2008

A triple threat subscription to The New Yorker, The Atlantic and Harper's would surely devour all my time, would it not?

Early onset boredom today helped me to rediscover The Atlantic:

American Murder Mystery - about the movement of urban crime outward from the inner city (this struck me because I'm in the midst of reading The Death and Life of Great American Cities). Particularly eerie were the related archive links that showed up next to this article: From 1913, The Drift to the Cities; from 1966, The Tragedy of Urban Renewal; from 1997, Good News (about community-based housing transforming bad neighborhoods); from 2000,
Notes on the Murder of 30 of My Neighbors.

Is Google Making Us Stupid? - about how the ability to read, specifically lengthy prose ("deep reading"), has been altered in the internet age. Which makes me think: by having a blog full of links that bounce you back and forth from topic to topic, am I only contributing to this evolution of information retention? And is that bad?

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