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New York Times reporters and editors fail reading comprehension test
First read this headline: Test-Taking Cements Knowledge Better Than Studying, Researchers Say. And the lede: "Taking a test… helps people learn, and it works better than a number of other studying techniques." Now read the following text: Without the [chosen] passage in front of them, they wrote what they remembered in a free-form essay for 10 […]
An immodest and hopefully obvious proposal for electronic citations
I had a thought today after reading of Barnes & Noble’s new iPad app, which allows customers to loan/borrow purchased books. I haven’t heard whether the annotations go along with the lending, but it strikes me that academics needing to cite locations in ebooks and those interested in annotation technology both need a way to […]
Ebook readers and markets
At the beginning of the month, one of The Big Things at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was the proliferation of electronic readers (or ebook readers), and as someone who bought a Sony ebook reader a few years ago for work purposes, I have a few thoughts that are different from the standard […]
Needing a break, even for a hardened historian
During spring break, I starting reading some books on the Spanish Civil War, and I’m finding it tough slogging: it’s not inherently hard reading, but it’s hard to read for long about a story that ends badly, where thousands of people lost their lives and a country turned into a dictatorship that lasted for decades. […]
New York Times indulges in iconographics – ugh!
By Sherman Dorn on February 3, 2011
Today’s America by the Numbers is a set of gratuitous icons next to decontextualized numbers. Cases in point: civil marriages and divorces. The numbers in the Times icon display are crude rates, against the entire population. Of course one would expect a lower marriage rate as a population ages, because young adults are more likely […]
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