“Blogging From Inside the Ivory Tower”

 

 I was reading the first chapter of, “Blogging from Inside the Ivory Tower,” and it poses a good question on whether blogging of any kind will take the place of regular writing on paper.  Will blogging become such a large part of everyone’s lives, not only personal but academically, to the point where all traditionally written papers will be done away with?  I personally can only hope that won’t happen.  I love being able to write something down whether it be for myself or for a class assignment.  Even if it’s a typed paper, it’s different then say, turning in a blog of some sort.  There’s a quality and characteristic all it’s own with paper whether it’s typed or handwritten. 

It’s not only blogs that are taking away from the traditional, but software in general these days.  You can now paint on a computer using specific software, doing almost the same as if you were to do it by hand, traditionally.  You can draw, manipulate photographs, make movies, and all kinds of things now with all the new technology.  It makes you wonder if all the traditional arts will soon be snuffed out by all these new technologies.

I heard from one of my professors that paper companies have lessened the kinds of paper you can buy for developing your own photographs.  And that the silver content in paper has lessened for whatever reason, whether to save money, or due to it not being used like it used to be.  It brings wonder as well as disappointment that all these new things could effect how they were done previously.  It’s one thing to test out new things and add them to what’s being done, it’s a whole other thing when these new things start to take the place of others.  Photography, or even painting in the traditional fashions have a quality completely different from that of digital photography or using software such as Photoshop or Painter.  I hope that due to the fact that these are different from each other, that this will prevent the new media from taking over the more traditional arts.  There’s no reason to do away with something just because something new comes to take its place.  Technology is wonderful, but there should be a limit of some kind.  I don’t know what that would be myself, but it would be nice to think that we will still be writing papers on paper, or painting with a brush on canvas rather than using strictly the computer alone.  Those are just my thoughts…

The article I’m speaking of:

http://www.williamlmoore.com/blogging%20from%20inside%20the%20ivory%20tower.pdf