Comments on: Internet Already Obsolete http://www.sfreeper.com/2009/04/10/internet-already-obsolete/ The Santa Fe Reporter's blog site for breaking news and local culture Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:08:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Patricia Sauthoff http://www.sfreeper.com/2009/04/10/internet-already-obsolete/comment-page-1/#comment-891 Patricia Sauthoff Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:37:21 +0000 http://www.sfreeper.com/?p=2626#comment-891 Poor teenagers! With all the pressures they've got these days we now expect them to click and scroll! Terrible. I've noticed this trend lately on tumblr.com blogs. They're usually full of images with an incomplete sentence or two at the bottom that "explains" why the image or song (copyrights be damned!) were posted. Those blogs with a lot of words don't seem to be terribly popular. When the Mumbai attacks occurred last year the blogs--which allow users to easily repost other posts and kind of ends up as one big daisy chain of images--these blogs were filled with images of the attacks and from the comments below them seemed like the only information a lot of the users were getting on the situation. Well, that an twitter. Guess us journos are going to have to give up the rules of grammar so we can get the info out there in bite-sized, colorful snippets! Poor teenagers! With all the pressures they’ve got these days we now expect them to click and scroll! Terrible.

I’ve noticed this trend lately on tumblr.com blogs. They’re usually full of images with an incomplete sentence or two at the bottom that “explains” why the image or song (copyrights be damned!) were posted. Those blogs with a lot of words don’t seem to be terribly popular.

When the Mumbai attacks occurred last year the blogs–which allow users to easily repost other posts and kind of ends up as one big daisy chain of images–these blogs were filled with images of the attacks and from the comments below them seemed like the only information a lot of the users were getting on the situation. Well, that an twitter. Guess us journos are going to have to give up the rules of grammar so we can get the info out there in bite-sized, colorful snippets!

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