The Web 2.0 video presents the idea that in this day and age digital text and writing are the most advanced ways for an author to express themselves. Digital authorship is able to employ so many different strategies and mediums in order to get the author's point across whether it's visually in the advertisements you see on the sidebar or audibly with the music that your blog, website, or video has playing in the background. In these modern times, authors must be able to utilize multiple strategies within their media in order to grab the reader's attention and to make their information known.
One of the more difficult things an author in the digital age must concern themselves with is their audience. With modern technology and a personal computer (or Mac, woot) in nearly every home across America, anyone can stumble upon your post from a search engine or by chance. For this reason, digital authors must be aware of this fact and therefore aim to impress a wider variety as their audience.
Yet, literature has not only been affected from the author's point of view now that machines are the way to go as far as a vessel for getting your voice heard. As readers, we must be careful for what we take as fact and what we recognize as bias or slander from an uninformed author. For example, there's much of a debate as to whether Wikipedia is a credible source of information and whether or not articles found on the website can be deemed valid. To this point, one could argue that this almost presents a test to author's and reader's alike. A challenge, from the instant-gratification generation, to communicate information, stories, and tales alike, online, without detracting from the base and core values from what classic literature gave all of us.
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