Is surfing Internet better than reading the real books/news?
Times Co. Reports a Loss, Tempered by Digital Growth
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/01/busin ... .html?_r=0
http://www.cw.com.tw/article/article.action?id=5067570
State of the News Media 2015
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/201 ... 06637.html
Internet can provide you with a vast array of knowledge and history. Of coarse books/newspaper give us the exact information we are looking for, and they are timeless. Meaning centuries from now they will most likely still be reading books we have read now. (albeit the new ed, etc) But the internet provides us with knowledge at our fingertips. Need to know sometime now to satisfy your intellectual curiosity? Ask google. If you don't like google their are other search engines that are more protected and trusted. Wikipedia is a treasure trove of knowledge. I know must of the stuff is peer edited but, it's also peer revised so for the most part the information is accurate. I once spent hours just looking up articles about quantum physics, Book's are great but you only learn from the writer and his experience/findings. With the internet you can learn from others more easily, which I believe is the best way to learn
Books are better because they have barely any negative aspects while the internet has so many! I like books so much and they are so easy to carry around! You won't have to worry about the power going out and you having nothing else to go to! Books all the way!
Session I:
1.How do you think surfing internet to get news better than real newspaper?
2. What's your opinion about "New York Times" shifting the focus to digital content?
Session II:
1. Digital content could be paid by user? How do you think it should be paid or free of charge?
2. If you work for one of pure digital content company, do you think your company could break even or even make fortune? why?
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3:45 ~ 4:00pm Greetings & Free Talk / Ordering Beverage or Meal / Getting Newcomer’s Information
4:00 ~ 4:10pm Opening Remarks / Newcomer’s Self-introduction / Grouping
(Session I)
4:10 ~ 4:40pm Discussion Session (40 mins)
4:40 ~ 5:00pm Summarization (20 mins)
5:00 ~ 5:10pm Regrouping / Instruction Giving / Taking a 10 Minutes Break (Intermission)
(Session II)
5:10 ~ 5:50pm Discussion Session (40 mins)
6:00 ~ 6:10pm Summarization (20 mins)
6:10 ~ 6:20pm Concluding Remarks / Announcements
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5/16 Surf Internet better than read books/news? (H:Sunny)
Re: Is surfing the Internet better than reading real books/n
Of course internet is better than books. It's even better than TV and movies in theaters. Most importantly, it's free. Not only for money, but also for many other things.
Re: 5/16 Surf Internet better than read books/news? (H:Sunny
How do we categorize the eBook/eMagazine/eNewspaper? Do they belong to “Real Book” or “Internet Surfing”? The line between the two is getting blurred.
Personally, I like in-depth analysis, reporting and beautifully written stories in books and newspapers, but I'd like to subsribe and carry them in electronic version. “Internet Surfing” helps me sip through enormous amount of news/information and get down to the one needed or interested quickly and effectively.
Should the digital contents (eBooks, eMagazines, or eNewspaper) be free? To be honest, I don't think so. "There's no such thing as a free lunch". If the contents is free, then, usually it will sell ads or something else to survive, and it will become bias or somehow influenced by the ads or just try to please the majority viewers/audience, and then you can expect the qualify goes downhill. I'd like to pay something to support the dedicated authors/writers who write beautiful things with heart for the world.
Personally, I like in-depth analysis, reporting and beautifully written stories in books and newspapers, but I'd like to subsribe and carry them in electronic version. “Internet Surfing” helps me sip through enormous amount of news/information and get down to the one needed or interested quickly and effectively.
Should the digital contents (eBooks, eMagazines, or eNewspaper) be free? To be honest, I don't think so. "There's no such thing as a free lunch". If the contents is free, then, usually it will sell ads or something else to survive, and it will become bias or somehow influenced by the ads or just try to please the majority viewers/audience, and then you can expect the qualify goes downhill. I'd like to pay something to support the dedicated authors/writers who write beautiful things with heart for the world.
Re: 5/16 Surf Internet better than read books/news? (H:Sunny
It was really a fun discussion Saturday afternoon. Maybe because of Sunny, a couple of “strangers” showed up, Leon, Debbie, Arthur, etc. There was a nice dinner chat after the meeting. Hope they get to come more frequently!
During the summary session, Steve said, people sit in the first class seats tend to read “real books/magazines” and people in the economy class swipe their screes all the time. Why? We joked that is because people in first class section do not know how to use computers themselves, and we know Steve is the one sits in the front seats when traveling! Ha!
Actually, I want to say most of us probably agreed that reading a "real book" seems more “classy”, a word that we could not remember in the meeting.
During the summary session, Steve said, people sit in the first class seats tend to read “real books/magazines” and people in the economy class swipe their screes all the time. Why? We joked that is because people in first class section do not know how to use computers themselves, and we know Steve is the one sits in the front seats when traveling! Ha!
Actually, I want to say most of us probably agreed that reading a "real book" seems more “classy”, a word that we could not remember in the meeting.