Wednesday 5/4/2010 HW

So we had to choose a blog to study. I choose to find one on Swype, the inventive texting tool that my new phone has. At first, I was a skeptic. I was trying to text during German history class and when I misspelled a word a loud beep went off. After finding a way to stop the noise and using Swype for a few days, I feel it has greatly enhanced my texting. The full keyboard on touch screen phones was always hard for me since I'm use to the regular phone pad. This technology made my life so much easier.

So the blog I found was focused on that. It made it seem like the blogger liked the technology but at the end he sort of bashed it.

http://blogs.sybase.com/wdudley/?p=628

Now to answer the questions:

1.What is the blogger responding to?
It seems he is responding to the new hype about the Swype keyboard. He uses other people's blogs as a reference.
2.What is their opinion on the topic? Do they agree/disagree with whatever view they're discussing?
His opinion is that there is too much hype over it. That it will never do for the texting world what T9 predictive text did. He seems to disagree with it all.
3.What are they trying to persuade their reader of? How are they doing it?
He is trying to give the reader a negative look on how big the Swype keyboard is. He does this by pointing out it's flaws and how it can't compare to the other technology.
4.How does this seem to be different from an essay in a book, or something you might read in class?
This differs from an essay in class because it is less formal. He doesn't cite any of his sources and it seems to be based purely on his opinion and not actually facts. In fact, he says that everyone but him likes it.