Internet shift

Looking back to November 9th, I found myself reading Camille Paglia's chapter called "Dispatches from the New Frontier: Writing for the Internet" and was completely fascinated by her realizations about the Internet and her work with Salon. The statistics given by Paglia in her chapter do not even compare to those of college students today, but it is still true that "the Internet has cause a tremendous cultural shift whose most profound impact has been on young people." She states that college students spend 2 to 5 hours a night on the Internet. (I think this could be potentially more today).
With information for papers, tests, and exams becoming more and more accessible for students, it is an easy way for them to turn. The Internet is the newest of mediums that has had a profound affect on all people of all ages, and I think most on the college age students. Personal voices, as Paglia says, can dominate the Internet. As we see with our own blog, we are writing for the Internet, for each other, and for our lovely ONE outstanding follower (and maybe others?). And as Paglia states, we do use "more voices and shifts of tone" than we would in other places, especially here. Here we can be both silly and serious. We can have some fun and remain reserved to what we are reporting in our blog posts. But, as she says, if we were writing for the Wall Street Journal, we would definitely be much more reserved and serious about our reporting. Salon gave Camille a place to use her many voices, and this blog has done that for us!