Nick Carr:

In the few days since my essay on the Internet's effects on cognition appeared in The Atlantic, I've been flooded with emails and blog posts from people saying that my struggles with deep reading and concentration mirror their own experiences. "I found the first couple of pages almost eerie in how well they described my own feelings," wrote a typical correspondent today. Uber-blogger Andrew Sullivan said in a post a short while ago that my story "strikes close to home."

Nick seems to have missed Mathew Ingram, who summed Nick up fairly well, I think:

Nick is a clearly a smart guy. But for whatever reason, he would rather use his skills to try and defend silly arguments that appear to be contrary just for the sake of being contrary. He's like a troll that writes really well.

I had a similar reaction here. But hey - it's easy to look good if you only look at your admirers.

Technorati Tags: reading