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Daily Archives: January 22, 2011

on footnotes, links, and cognition

by Rob Friesel

Recently, Nicholas Zakas wrote a blog post about switching from “embedded links” to footnotes. His decision was largely in response to some data cited in Nicholas Carr’s book The Shallows ^^I have previously reviewed The Shallows on this blog.^^^; of those data, Carr writes: The test subjects who read the pages linearly actually scored considerably […]