how’re you present with literature (on paper) now? how willing are you to extend your skills with creating an electronic identify for those who are more familiar with a paper one? online media isn’t going away–you’re right. but how to find a relevant life for words that normally exist on a page in an electronic one…

One thing that book-lovers should celebrate is that people are *writing* again. It’s hard to remember today, but back in the 1980s and early 1990s educators were very upset that children, teens and young adults were spending 8 or 12 or 16 hours a day in front of the television. Then video games came … and the world of reading and writing seemed about to wither and die.

So it’s sweet that today there are 100 million blogs and the craze is to create writing, even if on Twitter in 140 characters or less.

The writing on blogs and tweets and text messages may be sometimes sloppy, or ill-reported, or use different spellings … but language always evolves, which is why we and the Brits speak with different accents after only 250 years of separation.

I love books, and I love blogs, too. My own blog is a bit of a scratch-pad and when I write for “real” publication, I labor much more intensely. But I find the freedom of expression that digital typography has offered has freed my mind.

Here’s to more people writing loosely electronically. If they practice hard enough, they may even make it inside a book.