When I was in college, I would literally read 3 newspapers from front to back every day. The fact that I did most of that during my geology classes was not a good thing...but none the less...
Since I started reading blogs a couple of years ago, I have noticed my reading attention span has gone WAY down. If your post causes me to have to scroll more than once - I'm gone. My daily newspaper reading consists of hitting UsaToday.com and our local paper's site, scanning quickly for the best stories, and moving on.
I suspect that I am not the only one who has this problem now. The internet is a wonderful thing, but I wonder if we are creating a generation of news clips and sound bytes? Maybe that's ok.
Sorry, I just lost interest...gotta go...
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Thoreau said "Men have become tools of their tools" he died in 1862, little did he really know
Ok - not sure what the Thoreau quote says, but it's early and I'm slow. You might've been in the minority with the paper thing. Everything in my journalism experience pointed to people only reading the opening paragraphs so put all the info there top down. I use google reader the same way now, I think. My peeve is people who don't setup their RSS with the whole article - I want to read it in the reader and not have to click through to the actual site. So mine isn't ADD, it's LAZY.
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