Reading Assignment 5

I am currently typing this blog post at a speed much higher than the speed at which I would be writing this long-hand. I could go on and on, just babbling away about anything I want, droning on about every little thing that pops into my head and there is little to nothing hindering me from doing so. Technology has made this possible, for anyone with a basic idea of how to use the keyboard, to become a writer far more easily than any other time in history. Not only can people author different entries at a much faster rate, they can easily post these entries onto the net; thus allowing people to bypass the hassle and expense of selling their idea in a physical form, such as through publishing. This ability to become a writer has been passed on to every man and woman who has access to a computer and the internet, untold amounts of people have accessed the net and have not only consumed the information there but have authored some of their own. One of the most interesting things that Baron has brought up is the idea of the growing percentage of authors on the internet and the posing of the question, should everybody write?

Baron explains quite well that writers have always been in the minority. A major emphasis has been placed on reading, and probably rightly so, yet with the explosion of available writing modes on the net writing has begun to grow in popularity. People are now finding a place to voice their opinions online (about every little thing) and are becoming emboldened by the power of writing. Becoming an author online is very easy primarily due to the popularity of blogging these days. A part of me wants to side with the critics on this issue of writing on the net. I have a hard time finding meaningful prose in the heaps and heaps of Youtube comments and kitten blogs. I actually had a second paragraph already written before this one that was essentially a rant against the gargantuan amount of dribble online that is written/dumped and left to rust in the digital landfill that is the internet. Then a moment of clarity came to me, what is this blog that I am writing right now to anyone? It probably has no meaning to anyone else other than myself, and I would be one hell of a hypocrite to be shouting from my soapbox how people should really be more careful with what they write on the net, only to be writing from my own little blog. I believe that everybody should write, lets fill up this landfill till it bursts, lets bog down the net and clog this system of tubes till nothing can get through anymore. People should write, people should voice their opinions whenever they want and however they please. Everyone should be an author.