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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Climb to the Stars - Latest Comments in About Not Reading</title><link>http://ctts.disqus.com/</link><description></description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:50:40 -0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Re: About Not Reading</title><link>http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2008/06/11/about-not-reading/#comment-1777668</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Finpoil: je suis d'accord avec toi, il n'y a pas besoin d'avoir tout lu pour pouvoir citer. Ce n'était pas vraiment ce que je souhaitais mettre en avant, plutôt de la curiosité face au "phénomène" qui fait qu'une référence littéraire importante (Mythologiques) n'est quasi jamais lue (ce qui ne veut pas dire que je veux dénier à qui que ce soit le droit de la citer).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ma critique &lt;em&gt;critique&lt;/em&gt; vise plutôt le monde du &lt;em&gt;social media&lt;/em&gt; où l'on met sur un piédestal le commentaire à tout prix, toujours plus de commentaire, de la conversation, pardi! ce qui finit par nous donner des trucs comme FriendFeed (outil très bien par ailleurs) conçu de façon à encourager le commentaire sans lecture.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;C'est très intéressant, ce qui se passe. Et merci pour les références :-)&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Stephanie</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:50:40 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: About Not Reading</title><link>http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2008/06/11/about-not-reading/#comment-1777664</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Je suis peut-être à côté du sujet, parce que je réagis surtout au dernier passage de ton billet. Je voulais attirer ton attention sur l'excellent essai de Pierre Bayard "Comment parler des livres que l'on a pas lus?", qui traite justement de l'utilité du "skimming". Ça rejoint aussi les idées d'Edgar Morin (que je n'ai pas lu, mais que je cite tout de même, ha ha ha): il est plus utile de savoir le global d'un sujet et de pouvoir faire des liens avec d'autres thèmes, que d'être un spécialiste isolé dans son domaine.&lt;br&gt;Donc il n'y a pas besoin de connaître toute l'oeuvre pour la citer en toute honnêteté.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Finpoil</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:19:23 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: About Not Reading</title><link>http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2008/06/11/about-not-reading/#comment-1777663</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Good point. Headline as bait !== headline as summary.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Stephanie</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:25:19 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: About Not Reading</title><link>http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2008/06/11/about-not-reading/#comment-1777667</link><description>&lt;p&gt;I tend not to write short pieces, so I use headlines to make people click and read through. Whether my pieces are complex, is of course, based on the reader's interpretation. But even for complex issues, a good headline helps.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Louis Gray</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:00:27 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: About Not Reading</title><link>http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2008/06/11/about-not-reading/#comment-1777666</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Louis: doesn't it depend, somewhat, on if you want to get simple points across or argue complex issues? I'm not very interested in boiling down my thinking or ideas to a headline... even if it means I reach less people.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;I do agree with you, though (and I haven't yet read your article because I'm rushing off) that headlines are important.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Stephanie</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:55:19 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: About Not Reading</title><link>http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2008/06/11/about-not-reading/#comment-1777662</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Stephanie, it is a sad reality that I suppose has always existed but becomes illuminated in today's content intensive world. It is for this reason that many often write for "skimmers" with short bullets and sub headlines throughout copy. I too have been guilty of skimming but lately if I find myself skimming, I realize I'm tired and I opt to read and comment when I have time to give it my full attention. Am I reading and commenting less? You bet! However, I would rather give my quality attention to a few rather than scattered attention to many.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;P.S. I actually read the French and English on this post, of course did much better with teh English. Merci! :-)&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">KarenSwim</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:44:20 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: About Not Reading</title><link>http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2008/06/11/about-not-reading/#comment-1777661</link><description>&lt;p&gt;That's why I said Headlines are more important than ever. You only have a few seconds to grab somebody's attention, and it's likely they're not reading the whole story.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;In Blogging and RSS, Headlines Can be Make or Break&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.louisgray.com/live/2008/03/in-blogging-and-rss-headlines-can-be.html%3C/p" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.louisgray.com/live/2008/03/in-bloggi...&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Louis Gray</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:27:26 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: About Not Reading</title><link>http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2008/06/11/about-not-reading/#comment-1777665</link><description>&lt;p&gt;We often run workshops on a Friday for conferences starting on Saturdays so people can get a day away from work and then decide whether to burn up part of their weekend with the conference sessions. We also monetise conferences by charging profitable rates for the workshops.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;And I'm yet another person who has not read all of Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Mythologiques.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Bernie Goldbach</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:02:27 -0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>