New Reading, New Writing
Will Richardson,
Weblogg-ed,
Apr 23, 2009
Will Richardson enthuses after reading Steven Johnson in the WSJ on how reading will be changed by the ebook. "But what was different," writes Richardson, "was my ability to interact with it through Diigo." To me, it's hard not to think of Johnson's price as a sponsored article by Kindle, but maybe I read too much into things. Still, there is a point to be made of the idea that reading may become collaborative - out there on the real web (not the Kindle, where you can't do this sort of thing) I have been reading the Orwell Diaries for the last several months, since it started, commenting occasionally and reading the other comments. Moreover, I think that for some people - not for traditional writers like Johnson or Kelly, who still gurgitate entire books in a single go - writing has become an interactive exercise. I have, for example, written the equivalent of several books in these pages, engaging in a years-long back-and-forth with readers and commentators. Something else you can't do on a Kindle. See also Gardner Campbell on this item.
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