webraw kirjutab, et american psychiatric organisation defineerinud uue vaimse hälbe, mis puudutab internetikasutajaid. Blog Attention Span Syndrome, or Blog A.S.S. as researchers prefer to call it, is a more acute form of the short attention span syndrome that affects many young people, dogs, and reality TV producers. It most commonly affects people who create a special kind of website called weblogs. Symptoms include:


    Inability to read an entire article in a magazine or newspaper. Blog A.S.S. sufferers often report discomfort if they read more than three paragraphs and can't deconstruct the entire piece.

    An overwhelming urge to click on any word that is underlined or a different color than the rest of the text, hoping it is another hyperlink to an editorial about the war in Iraq.

    Delusions of grandeur, promoting a general belief that thousands of people around the world are waiting with bated breath for the next fix, or "posts" as test subjects commonly called them.

    A tendency to summarize every experience in life into two neat paragraphs.

    Obsessive compulsive examination of server logs, trying to decide whether it's best to please readers in Finland with an early morning post, or wait until the afternoon when the gang in Fresno wakes up.

    Anxiety increasing in proportion to the amount of time one has been away from a computer.


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