[TenthAmendmentChampion]

The reading pattern is interesting - it must apply to FreeRepublic as well.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

The rest is here:

http://thenextweb.com/dd/2011/07/10/people-read-web-pages-in-an-f-shaped-pattern/

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

[digger48]

WTF?

[Lazamataz]

Not me.

ALL my web page viewing is in the shape of an X.

Hubba hubba.

[bigbob]

I just look at the pictures

[Chipper]

I’d argue you have to have a short-attention span on the Internet nowadays. There is so much data out there, you need to get through the extraneous stuff quickly to find what you really want.

[Popman]

Anybody else notice that now reading a regular book is different since we spend so much time reading off a monitor with script on web pages.

I used to read several books a month and could read quite fast and with good comprehension

I find it increasingly difficult to finish a book now

[I still care]

Well, I never read anything at all. I just post.

[redpoll]

Hate to rain on this parade....

In the print media, where I shamefully spent the first 20 years of my adult life, we used to call our form of writing “inverted pyramid style.” In that style, you summarize the entire story in the first sentence, retell the most important bits in the next few sentences, and the tell the story again using details.

It looks like this study is just confirming the way people have written the news for the past 150 years.

So much for style points. I can also tell you from personal experience that everything you’ve heard about the media is understated, but that’s another story.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I do not believe even
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[Newtoidaho]

Most ads are on the right side of the web page, boy are those advertisers getting screwed.

[Political Junkie Too]

I bet people read the New York Times exactly the same way.

-PJ