connecting to the internet

This blog is for class, so I'm never sure what format to follow. Should I follow my traditional blogging style (where I generally ignore capitlisation rules)? Should I keep it academic? I really don't know. How should i introduce a topic that I've been assigned to write about? Jump right in? I guess I'll have to try out a lot of different ways and just stick with the one most comfortable to me.

That said,  i should really get back to the assignment at hand. we were talking about Adam Gopnik's piece, "...How The Internet Gets Inside Us".  Gopnik sorts people into these neat little catagories of the Better Nevers, the Never Betters, and the Ever Wasers. at first i was skeptical as to whether or not i would enjoy this article let alone find some thing to connect to. but, as i delved into the article i found several views that i could agree with, if not in whole, in part. Gopnik brought up some relevant topics and points of view.

later on, we reviewed Nicholas Carr's article, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?"  he too, brought up relevant topics and points of view, but i immediately  wanted to resist all that he had to offer because he started off by saying that the internet was destroying the general population's drive to read. now, i am an avid reader and  i feel like the internet fueled my passion rather than making me less inclined to read. however, i can relate to where he's coming from.

i have a couple of questions for Mr. Nicholas Carr (and anyone else who would care to cogitate upon the following),

1.  Do you believe that "power reading" is degrading a love for reading the classics, which can't really be understood through skim reading?
2. If the internet was not a factor, do you believe that that some other Force would continue to work upon the literary proficiency of the general population?
3. What's wrong with being an "efficient" thinker?
4. Do you feel that Google is trying to perpetrate a "group" or "collective" mind?
5. There was a time when people said that the slow extinction of scripted handwriting would lead to the downfall of good, clear, cognitive thinking and the typewriter would hinder rather than help human thought.  i think that it's safe to say, for the most part, that this has yet to happen (at least due the the lack of script). Do you think that Google can push us further in that direction, or will this terrible revolution go the way of the typewriter?
6. Why should we care about why or how or even if the internet is changing our thought processes and brains?