Interactive Media Blog #2

Takayoshi in my opinion had some what of the same argument that Daley expressed. In an ever changing world, people must change with the technology in order to keep up with every thing happening. Even though multimodality seems threatening to those who are used to more traditional forms of composition, composition itself must incorporate the new ways of conveying a message in order to remain an important part of scholars’ lives. I agree with this argument, because I believe that even though text and format will always have a place in this world, humans will always think of new ways to send a message to a mass amount of receivers, and as long as the medium is changing, one must let go of some traditions in order to keep the important ones. As for the Nardi piece, although the discussion of blogs is in some ways relevant to what we are creating in this class, the only correlation between a discussion of scholarly writing and the study he conducted that I saw was the section on blogs as commentary. In a way, we are critiquing what we read through our fancy shmancy blogs, we are drawing our own conclusions from the discussions set before us, and I can dig it. That’s all I got in me for today, go make some cookies.

Amish Sugar Cookies
1 c Sugar
1 c Confectioner's sugar
1 c Butter or margarine; softened
1 c Oil2 Eggs
1 ts Baking soda
1/2 ts Salt1 ts Cream of tartar
1 ts Vanilla4
1/2 c FlourColored sugar (opt)
Combine the sugars, butter oil and eggs, beat well. Add the remained ingredients, mix well. Refrigerate dough until well chilled (2 hours). Preheat oven to 375 F. Roll dough into balls and dip into granulated sugar. Place ona cookie shet and flatten with the bottom of a glass which has been dipped into the sugar, it keeps the dough from sticking. Bake for 10-12 minutes, or until lghtly browned around the edges.