It's odd (as Steve Wasserman pointed out in his piece on the decline of the book review) that in a medium with theoretically no length limit, essays are shorter than ever.
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But there's a limit (or so the Internet mystics say) to our patience for long pieces, 'published' online.
Tumblr -- the newly hailed answer to blog excess -- is reportedly at the vanguard of screen-presented minimalism.
The unspoken fantasy is that we'll eventually be able to efficiently communicate via burst transmission: information dense but kilobyte light. A sort of hypertextual Hemingway-ism.
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-- "Is Michael Bay a toddler?"
Mike Nelson
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