"I'm on a horse."

Oh, Isaiah Mustafa, you beautiful beautiful man.

Suprisingly, the Old Spice body wash commercials are my favorite commercials ever. It's suprising, of course, because I'm female and these are commercials for male products... but that's pretty much what Old Spice wants, right?

In the commercial, Mustafa is talking directly to the ladies and showing them what a "man" is. The man they want their men to smell like. The involvement of women in a man's ad is pretty effective, too. Who does the grocery shopping? Women usually. So now your woman comes home with that delicious new Old Spice scent. You like. She likes it. Everyone's happy.

My boyfriend uses Old Spice, and I gotta say, I kinda like that he smells like the man on the horse.

The Age Old Debate.

The question of which is better, new technology or previous technology, has been around since the beginning of time. Is it better to have analogue watches or digital watches? Is it better to have analogue television or digital? Analogue sound recording or digital?

In today's world, what's better?
Is digital literature better than tangible literature?

It's difficult to fairly evaluate these two sources of literature due to their multitude of differences.

Traditional Printed Books:

• Valuable content - Reading and studying books is a proven way to gain knowledge, enhance critical thinking skills, better spelling, and entertain quietly.
• Reliable - A printed book will never have corrupted data and you can read it without battery power.
• Physical contact - There's something that just feels right about turning a page and feeling the words in a book.
• Portable - Printed books are easily carried and some are even small enough to fit in a purse for convenient reading on a bus or doctor's office waiting room.
• It's paper - Therefore you can write in your books, highlight important passages, even bookmark pages by just folding over a corner. This is a fantastic way to study.
• The bad stuff - unable to be downloaded, selection is either limited to what books are in your local library or book stores or you have to wait for the book to be shipped to your house. Printed books can fall apart and wear out with age, get ruined by many different things, or can be lost.

Digital Books:

• Valuable content - Digital books can contain the exact some content as printed books.
• Downloadable - Digital books can be downloaded from a million sites on the web and can cost nothing.
• Unlimited selection - You'll never have to put a digital book on hold and you can access any book in the world that you might want.
• Languages - Digital books can come in any language, ever.
• Portable - Digital books can be downloaded onto Kindles, iPods, iPhones, iPads, and PDA devices and carried everywhere (not to mention these are generally smaller than most books).
• The bad stuff - Digital books can be corrupted or unavailable due to technical difficulties, the devices they're downloaded on tend to be expensive and you can't really write on them or highlight very efficiently (but that could be considered a matter of preference).

So which is better? Digital or print?
It's up to you really.

The content is the same, the process of reading is the same, the only differences occur with format and that all falls down onto personal preference.

Now what about the other web content?

The World Wide Web:

• Unlimited information - You can find anything online. "If it's not on Google, it doesn't exist."
• Unlimited access - You can access anything online. Some things may be protected, but to the skilled hacker, everything is open for business.
• Social interactions - Keeping up with friends and family is easy. Need help on your homework? You can ask your classmate without having to pry for personal information such as telephone numbers and online tutors exist.
• Convenience - Most homes have their own computers and connection to the internet now. Not to mention that WiFi is basically everywhere.
• The Bad Stuff - Grammatical, spelling, and factual errors are common, social networks can be distracting, and technical difficulties can hinder progress. If the user is unfamiliar with computers and the internet, using the web can be a daunting task.

The Library:

• Reviewed and edited information - All of the information, spelling, and grammar are correct.
• Librarians - They're there to help. They know what information you'll need, where to find it, how to access it, and can even help you with writing papers and the such. 
• No extraneous information - You can't get distracted by Facebook if you're looking in the Encyclopedia. (Turn your iPhone off, people.)
• No unwanted information - You can't get barraged by pop ups with naked ladies in a library. (Although to some, that might be a downside.)
• Easier to use - To small children, libraries are safe places with group reading programs. To people unfamiliar with technology, libraries are a comfortable way to access information.
• The Bad Stuff - Library information can be limited and sometimes complicated to access. It's a little inconvenient to have to drive to a library every time you want to look something up.

So once again, which is better? That's still up to you.
Whether or not the internet or a library will be more beneficial to you depends on a lot of things. How much information will you be looking up? What kinds of information will you be looking up? Are you easily distracted by Facebook? Is the library open? Do you have the means to even get to a library?

For me, when it comes to reading fiction in my downtime, I much prefer printed books. I love being able to read in bed without having to sit up and focus on my computer.
When it's time to write a paper (or a blog in this case), I love my computer. It's quicker, easier, and more convenient to access the information.

In fact, if I had no internet, it would have been impossible for me to access Motoko Rich's article, Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?