AUDIO

Drowning in Information

February 22, 2010


This week on the podcast, we turn our (possibly shrinking) attention to Twitter. In a recent blog post, George Packer wrote about his aversion to Twitter, which generated responses around the web, including from Steve Coll and Richard Brody on newyorker.com. Here he talks with Blake Eskin and New Yorker writer (and avid Twitter user) Susan Orlean about how Twitter and other technologies may be changing the way we read, write, and think.

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