Responding to Will's why weblogs?

"There’s an increase in shared meaning and understandings. Knowledge is acquired and shaped as a social process, which results in spiraling effect. I say something, you comment on it. I evaluate your comments, respond, and present a new perspective. Then, the process repeats until a concept has been thoroughly explored.
# Ideas are presented as the starting point for dialogue, rather than an ending point."--Jay Cross

Bingo! that is exactly what blogs are like. He summed it up so nicely in those few sentences. There is a huge social network out there on the web that is so multilayered and complex. Look at all the relationships forming from the web. Look at how popular match.com and eharmony are. and Myspace! I cannot even fathom how large myspace is and all the connections people are making through there. Myspace is popular with every age group, but mostly adolescents I think.

Blogging is definitely the only way to go where we can reach kids these days in school. It is where they are all doing their reading and writing now in the 21st century. We have reached the paperless age of computer chips and digital imagery. everything is going over the wire now. Electronic bills, pay per view movies, cell phones with internet access.... I think we are becoming more greedy with information and eager for communication. No one is ever truly alone now because they have their "network"....via cell phones or the weblogs. but nothing can replace the face to face connection of that first look into a stranger's eyes, that first touch, scintillating, electrifying attraction, the first kiss which sends goosebumps up the spine, and you walk around in a daze only wanting to spend eternity in that person's arms....

But anyway, i'm flying off on a tangent. The web is the best and maybe the only way to reach kids these days in school because they grew up in a world of computers. They don't know anything different. Their fingers fall naturally into place on the keyboard and wield a mouse like Luke Skywalker wields his lightsaber. So lets put away our pens, pencils, and papers, save a few trees in the process, and rip into the wires of online traffic.