Ever since the Internet has been introduced to the world, people have been trying to understand how much power, and information the Internet is capable of handling.  “The Library of Babel” by Jorge Luis Borges compares the universe to a hexagonal-infinite library, that’s so large, that it is impossible for one person to comprehend.  Borges’ piece is written through first-person, which presents his tone as having a diary feel to it.  Throughout the majority of his narrative the only philosophical view I could come up with was comparing his universal library to our present day Internet.  Now I admit that I am not much of a philosopher, unless I free my mind in an illegal way, so to comprehend Borges writing took a couple of re-reads. A main point that stuck out to me was an example of when Borges says that people in the Library (librarians) theorize that the Library contains an infinite number of galleries.  I contrasted his infinite number of galleries to our Internet which contains information and resources that seem to stretch out infinitely.

How might this contribute to multi-media writing you ask?  The only conclusion I can come up with is when Borges says “ it is true that a few miles to the right the tongue is dialectical and that ninety floors farther up, it is incomprehensible”.  Now any average Joe can learn how to make a website with the help of WordPress and sites like it, but not many of us know how to use binary codes, or how to program with all this fancy computer jargon.  I’m trying my best to theorize that in order to be better at multi-media writing, you must research your own path to find the fundamentals of multi-media writing.  ”The content was also deciphered: some notions of combinative analysis, illustrated with examples of variations with unlimited repetition. These examples made it possible for a librarian of genius to discover the fundamental law of the Library”.  Maybe we are all trying to discover the fundamental law of the Internet, and by researching different resources on the web, we can learn examples and variations of multi-media writing and how it created the expansion of the Internet.  Once the language is learned, you are permitted to contribute your own examples and variations (blogs/articles) to expanding the Internet, as one would write a book to put in Borges library.  I got a D in philosophy 147, so hopefully I didn’t sound too retarded in trying to comprehend Borges writing, but that’s the best I could do.