In praise of Slow Reading

Twos years down the road BerlinRomExpress – or BRX for the habitués – starts to have its own little personality. BRX is not exactly a proper blog, rich in personalization, hectic activity, du tac-au-tac comments, reparties and community buzz.

Rather than visitors, it has affectionate readers.

I feel that you as a reader have your habits when it comes to BerlinRomExpress. You are popping about, have a look at the cover. Sit back and relax. You sip an article or two. Like with a magazine.

Messages are a true pleasure and the majority still comes through via e-mail, commenting an article or sometimes a photograph. And it happens that we get to meet in the real life too! There is an interactive side to it, but more like “I drop you a line” rather than liking/sharing/making contacts/bookmarking etc. We all use social networks, but here on BRX there is no “productivity” intent. Just taking the time of writing and reading something.

Let’s call it a Slow Read approach, like in Slow Food. You are in for dégustation, not for feeder content accumulation. Gemütlich, comfortable. Do you recognize yourself?

For its affectionate readers BRX starts today its interview adventure. It will not always be easy. Most of the writing on BRX takes advantage of evening slots formerly allocated to television viewing. Whereas interviews need collaboration, setting up of appointments, and we are all so busy striking our work/life balance. But hey, let’s start! Intanto iniziamo poi si vedrà!

And then there’s also another reason: if my job is to give answers, in my free time, I’ve always liked to ask questions! ;D

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