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Ars Technica: Pew Internet Report – Only half of US Netizens use search engine daily

Ars Technica assistant editor Jacqui Cheng wakes us up to the fact that many Americans may be on the Internet, but they’re not surfing with the style we use in Silicon Valley. That smacking sound you just heard? It’s the entire Googleplex smacking their lips at the growth opportunity. Jacqui’s key sentence is this: “There’s [...]

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Interruptus Horribilus? Maybe not…

In Ars Technica, John Timmer has an interesting piece on effectiveness and work interruption. Turns out that having huge uninterrupted time to complete a task isn’t the holy grail after all – and interruptions aren’t the awful derailer that we thought they were. A new study published in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication suggests that, [...]

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