Long-form, Short Attention Span:The New Yorker and the Web

Blake Eskin

The New Yorker vs. the Web

b. 1925, Harold Ross b. 1989, Tim Berners-Lee

The New Yorker vs. the Web

• Authoritative• Focussed• Quality• Polish• Weekly• Finished• One-way• Costs money

• Democratic• Distracted• Quantity• Speed• Constant• Mutable• Two-way• Free

Reading The New Yorker in the Digital Age

2006

2006

2012

2012

Read Later

Mobile

Tablet Edition

Commentary and Text

Tablet Editions

The New Yorker The World Wide Web• Democratic• Distracted• Quantity• Speed• Constant• Mutable• Two-way• Free

Thank you.

blake.eskin@gmail.com@bdeskin