moonlog

Maybe ‘collective intelligence’ isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Or maybe you have to take one for the team.

Anyway, you might want to read this article about reading to the page’s end or the proprietors win:

Most of the proprietors of the commercial Internet have a financial stake in collecting the crumbs of data we leave behind as we flit from link to link—the more crumbs, the better. The last thing these companies want is to encourage leisurely reading or slow, concentrated thought. It’s in their economic interest to drive us to distraction.