These panelists are too stuck in their particular type of writing – personal essays. There's a lot of kinds of writing that happens online. I think that blogging is great for breaking the rules of the college English essay. You learn how to write quickly and effortlesslly. Writing style is quickly morphing thanks to the Internet. I've seen too many perfect academic-y articles that could never be published outside of an academic journal, because it conforms too much to the old formulas.