Speak for yourself about laziness or short attention span, Slowthestone.

If someone posts something of that volume on a Web forum with the subtitle "Also includes mind control information," I think it's safe to assume that he doesn't really intend to draw in many readers. There are enough "volumizers" here on the politics board posting other people's text (when they could just as easily include a link) to keep people reading all day long, and frankly, I have lots better things to do. And lots better things to read.

The quick click-and-switch nature of online communications is encouraging people who want to deliver effective messages do that in increasingly short swatches of text. You'll have to read sometime about research in this area and the resulting trends. Effective communications are increasingly shorter and shorter. At least they are when people want others to read them and not click quickly onto something else.