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Why keep using Microsoft Word? I finally kicked the habit a few years ago. Maybe more will follow.
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Blasphemisterical!
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Those of who read blogs might not realize it, but the great majority of reading of news takes place on paper. About 96.5% of time spent reading news is done while holding a newspaper, and just 3.5% is done looking at a screen.
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This impressive New York Times interactive chart shows how much Americans spend on different activities each day, on average. The Times has done an enormous amount in advancing the state of the art of the visual display of statistical data online.
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No, 96.5% of time reading newspapers is done holding deadtree. It was only looking at the newspapers’ websites and not blogs/cnn.com/drudge/tpm/etc.
Only sites like boston.com/washingtonpost.com/nytimes.com/etc. were being looked at. An important distinction, I think.
That’s a distinction that was lost on me—thanks! (Though I still think it remains a good and important bit of data.)
I never used MS Word, but for those that do I recommend Neal Stephenson’s “In the Beginning was the Command Line” about his own MS Word fiasco and storing data in proprietary formats:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Beginning…_was_the_Command_Line
Even if friends use Word to massage their text, I urge them to store their text in a standardized (non-proprietary) format.