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Lingering<\/a>, an interesting article from the blog N+1, asks the question, is life richer with the internet?\u00a0 The author answers in a mild positive, noting that the web satisfies curiosity and provides a platform for otherwise missing voices, but he also bemoans its time wasting nature, the fact that there is no such thing as sending one e-mail because one internet encounter leads to another and another.<\/p>\n My own experience is similar.\u00a0 Anyone with curiosity finds this and that, then a bit more with the news and blogs and video clips.\u00a0 I know the path people take is not the same because friends locate items I would never find, some of them interesting, some of them not, but it does show that others wander the web from time to time.<\/p>\n Quite a while ago, maybe as long ago as 15 years, I knew a sociologist from Macalester College who had done a study of time wasted on the computer.\u00a0 This was before the internet was as big a phenomenon as it is now.\u00a0 His results suggested that computer use in and of itself lured users into acts extraneous to their original purpose, acts such as reading an e-mail from a friend or sending on something interesting, perhaps checking the calendar or writing a brief note about this or that.<\/p>\n It may be that some web users are like me, my main outlet for manual dexterity is typing.\u00a0 A secondary outlet is chopsticks.\u00a0 The opportunity to type, in and of itself, draws me to the computer and sometimes keeps me there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Beltane\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Dyan Moon Lingering, an interesting article from the blog N+1, asks the question, is life richer with the internet?\u00a0 The author answers in a mild positive, noting that the web satisfies curiosity and provides a platform for otherwise missing voices, but he also bemoans its time wasting nature, the fact that there is … Continue reading Do you linger?<\/span>