I was frustrated with "Lexia to Perplexia" when we read it in class a few weeks ago. While the piece was very innovative, it had a very gimmicky feel that left a bad taste in my mouth. Based on class discussion, I don't think I was alone in my opinion. Thus, I am rather intrigued by how many of our final projects (my own included) make extensive use of images and sounds. I believe it was Shock and Awe who complained that hypertexts frequently have "too much text and not enough hyper." While nobody came up with a project as odd or experimental as Memmott's, I began to see shades of Lexia in many of the presentations.

I was intrigued by the presentation today that compared blogs with classic, paper-and-pen journaling. The presenter mainly focused on the similarities between blogs and paper journals, raising some interesting parallels that I was unaware of. I thought that the presenter did a great job of discussing the public/private dichotemy in paper and online journaling. However, the project got me thinking about my own experience journaling. At various points in my life, I have maintained a written journal, a blog, and a computer-based journal that I did not share or publish online. It was my experience that I wrote about very different things in each format.