21st century writers

Summary:
Blog and assignment
Written by:
Carissa Conger

Summary over Reading, Writing, and Publishing in the 21st Century.
Basically this is talking about how the internet in the past ten to fifteen years has changed dramatically with all age groups but mostly the age group of twelve to seventeen years old in the year two thousand six. It states that ninety-three percent of U.S. teens aged twelve to seventeen used the Internet in two thousand six; among them, sixty-four percent have created content, up from fifty-seven percent in two thousand four. Also, the reading talks about how the world has come to where the acts of thinking, writing, and publishing are different now days, and where charging money for editorial content is becoming an ever trickier proposition. Book publishers, newspapers and magazines, writers, and readers are experiencing these same popular trends in very different ways. For writers, this new way of the world means leaving newsrooms and going to the online world of blogs. Blogs and RSS is most popular where the most postings of news is more and more, traditional journalism practice is routinely looked down at, and the pay is modest. A popular blogger named Om Malik, senior writer for Business 2.0 magazine, report that the money from ad clicks related to their blog content is barely enough money to cover the cost of blogging.

March 3, 2010

My reflection from the reading:
After I have read this article, I found it to be very interesting that it stated that blogging is a big thing. Truthfully I believe blogging used to be a big thing and is not anymore. For example, MSN used to be huge with teens back when I was in seventh and eighth grade, but now facebook is the site that took over. So maybe MSN took over and became more popular that blogging. Of course people still use blogging but not as much. Sadly, I am blogging but I would rather much be on facebook or at least MSN. Now days I think that in a couple more years, twitter is going to be the bigger thing other than facebook. It’s just how society is conforming to the internet and new things. Now I do believe that online news and internet is taking over from books and what I call the old class experience. Today, anyone that can, and has access to, can get online and read almost any book that has been published and that is not exactly too recent. I think it is kind of sad how people rely so much on technology now days and some cannot survive out in the wild. It kind of makes me wonder, is this really God’s plan or are people becoming to materialistic and relying too much on the internet, cell phones, cars? Why can’t people just have a day without technology? It’s because lots of them would be too lost and go insane. To me, it is quite pathetic.