Read-later apps let you separate reading from finding, since they ideally happen with different mindsets and environments. This is necessary not because browsing aggregators, timelines, and feed readers is given too little time — people happily devote hours to it — but because the goal is to “get through” them and keep checking for new items, keeping readers in a skimming, active, dismissive mindset that’s hostile to attentive reading.
Instapaper’s usage data backed this up: there was almost no correlation between article length and number of saves on Instapaper. People routinely saved everything from three-paragraph Lifehacker posts to 10,000-word feature articles. The most-saved sites were usually just the most popular sites read by the kind of people who knew about Instapaper, not just the longest articles they found.
Nobody was saving Lifehacker posts because they couldn’t read three paragraphs right then: they saved them because they wanted to attentively read them, which wasn’t going to happen in their current context.
Category: All
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linux-dash – a drop-in, low-overhead monitoring web dashboard for a linux machine
Pope’s ‘doves of peace’ attacked by other birds at Vatican
Pope’s ‘doves of peace’ attacked by other birds at Vatican
Today, two white doves, a symbol of the hope for peace, were released from a window in the Lateran Palace by children standing next to the Pope… and immediately attacked by other birds. It happened, not just in front of the Pope, but before a large crowd that had gathered in St. Peter’s Square to hear him give the Angelus Prayer.
Ratchet – WebSockets for PHP
Ratchet is a loosely coupled PHP library providing developers with tools to create real time, bi-directional applications between clients and servers over WebSockets. This is not your Grandfather’s Internet.
My Philips PhiliShave beard trimmer finally died, …
My Philips PhiliShave beard trimmer finally died, after serving me for almost 12 years. Today it was replaced by a Remington trimmer – device of scary possibilities. Next time you see me, I’ll probably be scarred, bandaged and slightly bleeding, but with inexplicably handsome beard.