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.
In a way Youtube is like watching youself everyday, but when watching it, you are doing the same thing every time. Youtube can be intertaining and educational at the same time. You can so much information by what topics you type in.