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One reason why she Won

Here is a link to the very incredible PowerPoint presentation chapter from the very incredible A Visit from the Goon Squad by the very incredible Jennifer Egan, who very incredibly, won the Pulitzer Prize for it!

Links

• Cause of Death Disputed, 

• Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting  :  
• MoveOn.org
• http://www.hushmail.com/  
• http://www.driverguide.com/  
• More unicorns, more rainbows at Cornify
• http://www.bookpage.com 

KK Cool Tools: Longform & Instapaper

This person has interesting links. I especially like the long form as well, but have no reading devices as yet.

Longform has the list of interesting magazine articles; Give Me Something to Read has a nice selection also. Even more fun are the bookmarklets that Instapaper will give you.... one called Read Later  and another called Instapaper Text, which reformats the page you're looking at so the ads go away and the typeface is large, legible, and drowning in white space.

Hyperlinks redivivus

I love Laura Miller, the Salon editor. She's written an essay on the so-called Hyperlink War. Apparently, there's now some discussion as to whether or not embedded hyperlinks are enhancing or destroying our ability to focus and/or understand and/or ever finish an article, all the while relating back to recent stories, especially in the Times, about attention-span declines and overall dummification of things. She tries to go green and eliminate embedded links, instead batching them all at the end of the essay. I found that the text flowed better because I didn't have to decide whether or not to follow a link when it arrived. Yet I didn't click on any of the ones at the end, because I'd finished the article and didn't feel a need to. I often get sidetracked from linking while reading, and then having to backtrack to track back, but I'm a clicker, not a skipper. And I also prefer footnotes to endnotes.