Slate: How people [don't] read online--why you won't finish this article

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2013/06/how_people_read_online_why_you_won_t_finish_this_article.single.html

Wenatchee The Hatchet has a propensity to write things longer than even the aforementioned article.  It's not like there aren't tagged series of posts sprawling the length of 15,000 words anywhere at this blog, after all. 

It can often seem as though the internet has played a role in catalyzing a shift in attention and reading.  To be sure there are bloviating sorts who say the same fifteen different ways when they could say something once and move on but those sorts predate the emergence of the internet.  Mojo Jojos existed before Mojo Jojo even if their triplespeak was never so glorious as his. 

Be that as it may there can be many a case in which someone wants an author to just get to the point and boil things down when the point is precisely that things are not so readily boiled down as that.  Things are not so get-to-the-point as people will insist things need to be.  It's common enough that a person who says we should be making a difference and not a point is simply making a point and not a difference by trying to get to the point and win the point rather than make a real difference.  It was ever thus. 

So in an uncharacteristic way that's all Wenatchee The Hatchet has to say on this for the time being.