On Sat, 29 Jun 1996, G.S. Aikens wrote:
> 
> But what is "serious" writing?  Isn't the passionate submission of a 
> lawyer or school teacher to an online forum in Dubuque or Minneapolis 
> "serious" writing? If it isn't, why isn't it?

Methinks G.S. has put his or her finger right on the central issue. 
Historically, the definition of "serious writing" changes both its form
and its substance every time people decide they know what it means. 
The idea of "making full use of the web" is not a technological question, 
but a journalistic and literary one.  Or a human question.  And, by and 
large, we seem to be talking around that issue.

- -- jon franklin
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