It is important for students, especially wiriting arts majors, to know that writing is a technology. Writing starte dout as a form of math and a way to kee track of trading goods. This system was th number system that evolved into pictures and then into words. As far as the physical aspects of writing being a technology, we have to look at how technologyis notsomething thats instilled in us; its not something we have an erge to; its something that is dependent on something else, in order to work. Sort of like a remote controll, it depends on batteries to work.
This article is on why people blog and the effects of blogs. What I got from this article is that people who blog are actually just community builders. Now blogs may not be your traditional communities where there are a group of diverse people thrown together, and are forced to cope with one another. Blogs are more of a community that is built off of common interest, and the only people who blog this blog are people wh share those interest.