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Politics move quickly and opinions evolve. There's a good chance I no longer hold some of the opinions expressed in the post below
—Mustapha

Reading on the Web

July 13, 2012 · Mustapha Hamoui

If you’re the kind of person who often thinks about how to handle the inflow of information coming from the web, you might be interested in the post I just wrote for The Cube about that topic.

What may interest you more is that the post takes a little “behind the scenes” look at Beirut Spring , which might answer some questions you have about this blog and the frequency of posts.

At some point in 2011 –-I can’t remember exactly when-– I came to a very important realization about reading and the internet. That realization is not exactly a breakthrough, since I’m sure many of you have on some level gotten it too, but I like to think of it as a tiny apple that fell on my head and made an important impact on my life. It has affected the way I blog and the way I read online.

To understand the importance of my “discovery”, let’s go back a bit in time and remember how we used to read before the internet came along. (Read the rest at The Cube)