Month: April 2012

My spring break was not really a spring break because I worked throughout it.  Due to the fact that I work in an office I work amongst a variety of different people, some are more computer savvy than others. One of the projects that I worked on that relates to topics discussed in this new media class was an excel training.

In setting up this training for the newer version of excel because technology is always developing, I had to decipher who would take what class. At first when I sent a sheet around telling the employees to indicate whether they wanted to attend the basic training or advanced everyone selected the advance training.  Then when everyone was told that it was for a newer version of excel many signed up for the basic training as well. After this I went and sat with my boss and realized that some of the people who signed up for the advanced would not be able to take the class because it was too advanced for them.

I believe that this is because the development of new media in which many people from older generations are not able to cope with the development in technology which is constantly developing. I notice that many people are apprehensive about change and do not want to use updated technology even though many proclaim that it is better.  I begin to wonder if technology keeps developing will I be as apprehensive about change as as this older generation is now?

MacArthur proclaims that publishing works should not be something that is free and that free content on the Internet diminishes the value of publisher’s works. He states that a pay wall should be up for published work to pay all author’s for there hard work. In this day in age that is unrealistic and not accurate.

Writing is something that should be done with passion and should be done because you love to write not because you are trying to make money off of it. However, there are instances where I agree writers should be paid and to me that is those who write novels and have enough recognition to demand an audience that is willing to pay for their work. To ask for bloggers to receive some sort of compensation for their work is unrealistic.

When I post a blog I am doing it freely just to exploit my inner thoughts freely but I do not wish to be compensated for it but if I wrote a novel that is a different story.