Two Spaces

This Slate article, posted yesterday, has already garnered (if that's the word) over 2500 responses.

http://www.slate.com/id/2281146/?wpisrc=obinsite

I'm convinced. After a lifetime of typing two spaces, I will type one. I think.

Manjoo says that the two spaces inhibit the eye's and the mind's flow through the language. If that's the case, though, how much worse is the double space between paragraphs, universal now in online writing for perhaps good digital reasons and perhaps not, that is becoming very common in non-digital or non-HTML writing? My writing students write stories with double spaces between paragraphs, and I can't make them stop. I think it is ceasing to become habitual and is on its way to becoming correct. And oddly enough for the same reason as the double space after a sentence: because a technological limit demands it.

(I see that I have ended the sentences in this entry with double spaces. Also separated the paragraphs thus. Make of this what you will.)