When I first read the "New Literacy" I thought it was interesting to read about how people blame technology for kids who cant write. Some of the things that suprised me the most was how the college professer said that texting has dehydrated language into "bleak, bald, sad, shorthand". I disagree with him because texting has made it easier for kids to take notes, and with out all the new technology that we go home and write stuff in/on such as: facebook, and twitter we would be going home and not writing anything else for the rest of the day. I like how now students can write to an audience and they dont have to follow a specific rubric. If writing has come this far with the internet and taken a new revolution, then what will writing be like in 10 years?

After watching Michael Wesch's video "web 2.0" it made me think about how the internet is such a big part of peoples lives, linking people together, and trading information with eachother. It also made me think about how we are the web, we are the machine. And that we teach the machine everytime we post and tag a picture. It amazes me how many different things we can do on the web. At the end of the video it got me thinking on how we need to stop copyrighting other peoples work that we dont give them credit for, and how we need to rethink privacy and identity.