A Better Pencil.. (part 2)

In the last chapters of A Better Pencil, it talks more about digital writing, whether it be email, blogs, Facebook, or whatever you prefer. The book mentions that because writing is so much easier, more and more people are writing. And, essentially, anyone can be an author. Not everyone may get many readers, but that is not preventing them from writing.

So, with anyone and everyone writing/blogging on the web, how do we know what to read. How do we filter out the unnecessary information floating on the web. There is a section that talks about Too Much Information in chapter 11 i believe. I think this is becoming the case today. There is too much information to sift through on the web. It's hard to know what to believe and what sources are really credible. How can we ensure that anything we read on the web is true, or is that even possible to prove?

Going back to TMI... I think that because everyone thinks they are an author, they are posting more and more useless information on the web. Take Facebook for example, I have friends on there that post random status updates... ALL the time. This is where the lines begin to get blurred between public and private spaces. It seems that the more you post online, the less private your life is. And eventually, privacy could be nonexistent. Scary.

So the book is titled A Better Pencil, what will be the next better pencil? What comes after digital text?? I'd love to know.