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Send to email | Links on delinkification in General | By Rough Ty el 02-Jun-2010 | The airing of the idea of delinkification did not, you'll be relieved to know, set off a catastrophic implosion of the World Wide Web. It did, however, set a few minds to pondering. At the Columbia Journalism Review, Ryan Chittum considered the distracting qualities of the link and their influence on our ability to pay attention: Think about reading a newspaper pre-Web that decided it wanted to turn a few words blue here and there. Isn?t that in itself distracting? Now think about how many times you jump in and out of a story to follow some link. It can?t...
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| Links on delinkification | | The airing of the idea of delinkification did not, you'll be relieved to know, set off a catastrophic implosion of the World Wide Web. It did, however, set a few minds to pondering. At the Columbia Journalism Review, Ryan Chittum considered the distracting qualities of the link and their influence on our ability to pay attention: Think about reading a newspaper pre-Web that decided it wanted to tu [..] Read complete article |  | Published 02-Jun-2010 by Rough Ty in General Read 19 times. More hits in  |
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| A footnote on delinkification | | In response to my earlier post on delinkification, and the ensuing discussion, the folks at Arc90 have rushed out a new version of their bookmarking tool, Readability. It includes a feature that will automatically convert links into footnotes on web pages. I have a feeling the software isn't going to instigate a sweeping change in general web-browsing behavior, but it is ingenious - and welcome... [..] Read complete article |  | Published 04-Jun-2010 by Rough Ty in General Read 13 times. More hits in  |
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| Experiments in delinkification | | A few years back, my friend Steve Gillmor, the long-time technology writer and blogger, went on a crusade against the hyperlink. He stopped putting links into his posts and other online writings. I could never quite understand his motivation, and the whole effort struck me as quixotic and silly. I mean, wasn't the hyperlink the formative technology of the entire World Wide Web? Wasn't the Web a hy [..] Read complete article |  | Published 31-May-2010 by Rough Ty in General Read 20 times. More hits in  |
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Soccer League goes MOBILE! Participate!
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Awesome list of 10 Way Too UNUSUAL Wordpress Plugins!!!
This is an awesome list of the most unusually useful wordpress plugins beside the usuals of course. Some of these plugins are not even heard of which is quite weird and the plugins mentioned in the blog are really under rated. If ya are a blogger or you are interested to open up a new blog with the Wordpress platform then this i [..] Read complete article |  | Published 07-Aug-2008 by Nokia Sy in General Read 46 times. More hits in ![Images about Links for 2008-08-06 [Digg]](./images/photo.gif) |
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Nokia E72 Review - Should you Buy it? | Nokia Symbian Themes
Tons of new images of the Nokia E72 with a great detailed review. E72 is a HSDPA GSM smartphone PDA n comes with a QWERTY Keypad, 5 megapixel camera, Optical Navi Keys, WLAN, GPS, 4GB space and much more. Check out the new pics!!
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Nokia N900 | Review, Price & Tech Specs | Nokia Symbian Them
Extensive Review of Nokia N900 mobile computer smartphone device with loads of Nokia N900 phone's pics, videos, complete tech specifications n product data sheet.
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Nokia N8 Review - Price, Features & Tech Specs!
A Detailed review of the Nokia N8 Symbian^3 smartphone. N8 comes with a 12MP auto focus camera (1/1.183 sensor ratio camera & f/2.8 based aperture length!) with resolutions up to 4000x3000 pixels. Includes HDMI, HD Video, Hardware Accelerated 3D graphics, 680Mhz CPU, 256 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM, A-GPS, WiFi, 16 GB space, 3G, Xenon Fl [..] Read complete article |  | Published 09-May-2010 by Nokia Sy in General Read 27 times. More hits in ![Images about Links for 2010-05-08 [Digg]](./images/photo.gif) |
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