A couple of days ago, I looked at some articles suggesting that the Internet was having a deleterious effect on attention spans. Little did I know when I was writing them that I was buying into a chain of “new media” scares going all the way back to the invention of the Gutenberg printing press and beyond. Slashdot links to an article in Slate that goes over the history of these fears. Psychologist Vaughan Bell writes: Worries about information overload are as old as information itself, with each generation reimagining the dangerous impacts of...

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Slashdot has a comment thread about what the best e-book device currently is. There is quite a lot of talk of e-ink vs. LCD, open format vs. DRM, and other interesting discussion. Have you ever wished it was easier to read a book (or e-book) while lying flat on your back? Either your neck gets tired craning to see it, or your arms get tired holding it up. Well, these $50 prism glasses I found in Gizmodo might offer a solution: they point your vision straight down, so you can read a book held upright while lying on...

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