On Monday, Richard MacManus wrote on the Read Write Web blog about the online reading habits of 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2010/12/06/06readwriteweb-how-online-reading-habits-have-changed-over-97076.html?ref=technology
The most intriguing statement made in the piece was :
"The main point here is that Web reading has moved away from the PC and onto mobile devices, which is changing the way we find, consume and organize our reading. Apps like Instapaper and Flipboard also place a big emphasis on sharing things. For example, I have gotten into the habit of tweeting links to articles that I enjoyed reading in Instapaper."
The continued positive upswing of sharing information through a variety of devices, platforms and applications continues to be the real story about online reading. The wild west metaphors have opened up again, and it is now portable and available for those that can either afford it or wish to own it. The implications for the discovery, consuming, and organization of how we read and ingest is a very important issue in the future of education in our country at this time, a time which finds schools on the brink of financial collapse and people basically acquiring a self-study of how technology works in their lives. But is that necessarily a bad thing?
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