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Link between keyboard noise and good prose? How to find the clicky keyboard of your dreams—if that’s your thing

David Rothman November 1, 2010November 1, 2010 0 comment

Might American newspapers and journalistic Web sites be too quiet these days? Here I’m not talking about silence on Afghanistan or the budget deficit. I mean the rooms—the amount of noise or lack of it.

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‘Typestolgia’: A neologism for nostalgic typewriter lovers

David Rothman May 28, 2010May 29, 2010 0 comment

In the 19th century the great change on the seas was from sail to steam, and in the newsroom during the 20th century, the big transition was from typewriters to computers and the Internet. Now a related neologism has popped up in the Urban Dictionary—typestolgia: “(n.) – A nostalgia for old manual and electric typewriters […]

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