To John Green: The Novel in the Age of Google

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Published by mickeleh at 04/09/2010 22:23 Like

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A response to John Green's "Smancy Hotel Room"
Is the new shiny crowding out the novel. Do we have time to read anymore? I don't I'm cranking videos.

Article: "Is Google Making us Stupid"? by Nicholas Carr (The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/6868/

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faithgrins, at 11/21/2012 07:21, says:
"All the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single, large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value." - Carl Sagan
mc5971, at 06/01/2012 13:08, says:
Enjoying your videos a great deal. Thankful that wildbill suggested following you.
Xsuvival, at 01/17/2012 02:42, says:
I subbed by 1:00, DFTBA
NoLife2point0, at 12/10/2011 08:57, says:
This makes me happy..
Theblargen, at 10/25/2010 02:32, says:
I didn't know green screens were master surgeons. :P
mickeleh, at 10/24/2010 21:31, says:
I"m not sure. But it was painless. And they came back.
Theblargen, at 10/24/2010 21:17, says:
1:47 OMG WHERE DID YOUR FINGERS GO?! :O lol
Ahabite, at 10/09/2010 13:35, says:
"Dying world of print," or changing world of print? And whether Google is actually making us dumber needs to be taken in context and adjusted (like the value of money over time) so we can allow for distortion. Consider that now, with the easy access to an ocean of information, we have the potential to both know more and the expectation to know more (there is just more to know). That we barely stay afloat (forget things and misremember) in this ocean, is simply a reflection of this.
casey zvanut, at 09/30/2010 09:58, says:
I have heard, though, that when you present information in a narrative form, that that information is easier to remember. Perhaps that is what John meant. (Like Jesus and the parables, the story is the example of the concept)
GreenSpinNews, at 08/20/2010 01:26, says:
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Nikki1862, at 07/09/2010 07:13, says:
You're very witty and intelligent. I really enjoy your videos. :D
Nikki1862, at 07/09/2010 07:02, says:
You're very witty and intelligent. I really enjoy your videos. :D
underwarewrench, at 07/06/2010 18:57, says:
You're talking about the Phaedrus, but the one problem with the oral story given about writing's possible detriment is that Socrates is speaking it as a character in Plato's writing. The debate about the value of writing is entirely confined to literary characters. It's an entertaining little paradox to chuckle about.
littlebrownhare, at 06/17/2010 02:24, says:
It's funny you mention the Nicholas Carr article; it was on my English exam I took two weeks ago. Yay coincidences!
thebonstergirl, at 05/10/2010 02:26, says:
I thoroughly enjoy your vlogs. :)
Click3tyClick, at 05/02/2010 10:14, says:
Green halo.
garyfromwv40, at 04/27/2010 07:27, says:
I knew I was gay by the time I was 11, and I never told a living soul until I went away to college. Guarding my secret and hiding my feelings for so long left me with an enormous sense of isolation and loneliness. So I have my copy of "Will Grayson, Will Grayson," and I'm looking forward to diving right in. I'm sure I'll enjoy the story, but I'll also enjoy imagining what it would have been like to have read it way back when.
garyfromwv40, at 04/27/2010 06:08, says:
I greatly appreciate "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" because it has a prominent gay character. There simply was nothing like it available to me when I was a teenager. I may have come across a gay character in a TV show or movie three or four times a year, and the few gay characters I did see were generally presented as tragic.
garyfromwv40, at 04/27/2010 06:17, says:
I certainly do hope that storytelling survives the internet. I can't imagine a world without storytelling in one form or another. I'm a novelist myself, but, alas, unpublished. However, I've not made a great effort to get published, so I guess that's my own fault. I've not, as yet, developed a thick enough skin to subject myself to the rejection that will undoubtedly come after sending out query letters.
mickeleh, at 04/26/2010 10:19, says:
The green is accounted for in "Quarterly Report Q1, 2010"
Saiko507, at 04/24/2010 17:01, says:
Would it be that your best videos are video responses as you stated in your Q Report? Oh well my thoughts are that must people actually don't realize the incredible information we can find in books. Internet does provide a powerful way to access to information but I still believe it hasn't match the quality of the information we can find in books...... yet.... In addition, I hate to read too much in my comp. screen... it hurts my eyes in the long term...
mickeleh, at 04/16/2010 06:15, says:
thanks for mentioning the Walter Benjamin essay. I'll be on the lookout for it
skrewuloser, at 04/16/2010 05:00, says:
unless I'm wrong & remembering Plato's own story, I'm pretty sure that the myth of the invention of writing is itself oral, involving a "pharaoh" who has the invention brought before him and states that it would make men not forgetful since they'd be using paper as a stand-in for memory; which I 'm not sure has been the effect of writing. Also, you mention "information" & the novel. I think there's a Walter Benjamin essay that says that the birth of the notion of Information is the death of art.
Kim McCollum-Clark, at 04/16/2010 00:04, says:
Ha! I just quoted the Phaedrus to JG also! I hate hand-wringing about changes in communication technologies!
Mikah Sargent, at 04/15/2010 07:10, says:
You speak so well; that's why I enjoy you. Everything you say is backed up by fact and logic.