A healthy news diet: how and what we read changes our brain Paid Members Public
One of the responses to political polarization and toxic community could — and should — be paying greater attention to our information diets
A Delicious Lesson In Owning Digital Products Paid Members Public
Really long-term readers of this blog might remember Delicious (or, as I still instinctively type it, del.icio.us – surely one of the best domain names ever), the social bookmarking site. It was, in essence, a semi-public web-based version of the browser bookmarking that you probably don’t use. Delicious
How long is "long form"? Longer than you think… Paid Members Public
Some interesting figures on the length of popular long articles saved into read later app Pocket [https://medium.com/@Pocket/surprise-our-attention-spans-aren-t-dead-154ce24e5aab] : > In the Top 500 most-saved articles from the first half of 2015, we found that the average article length is 3,190 words, which would take over 15
18 novels in my Pocket Paid Members Public
It’s that time of the year when some of the social services you use start sending you stats. The one I got from Pocket – a “save and read it later” service – was actually quite eye-opening… 852,713 words! That’s a fair few books right there – and that’s
