This is an article about pens in the electronic age. I've finally been published online, for a journal called "The Digest" out of the Simon Fraser University School of Communication, in Vancouver. I wanted to share it with you all, especially since I interviewed the local pen shop owner to put it together!

view it here: Cursive hand: Still strong from ink to email

(and check out the rest of the issue as well). The Digest focuses on new media and technology, with the current group being composed of undergrad students majoring in Communciation.

Here is a working link

Cursive Hand: Still strong from ink to email

Very nice article! I enjoyed it.

Don

Thanks OldGriz.

Well done!

Nice article. Congratulations.

You should've covered computer handwriting recognition and noted that a nice hand works more reliably and regular use will improve one's handwriting.

William
(who is composing this on his pen computer using RitePen.)

Ryan:

Enjoyed your article. Claims of the death of hand writing reminds me Isaac Asimov's "The Feeling Of Power." In the story humans have forgotten how to do math and are totally dependant on calculators and computers. A man discovers multiplication and division and frees man from the machine.

Sid Stahl made a similar point in "Silicone Snake Oil." If you had the great american novel on a cassett tape from a 1985 computer it is probably lost forever. The same is true for the soft floppies disks. Even if you have a drive you may not have the sofware to read the files. That has only been 20 years. Hand writing has survived for thousands of years.