People Really Do Like It Long Online

This is very true, from one David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker: “One of the great Web orthodoxies was that no one would read anything of any length online. Bullshit.” Yes! It’s one of the most pleasing and surprising facts of the Internet! Anyone who says that long-form writing doesn’t perform well online is working for some MSN celeb picture site or just hates words.