Yes, and then when your lamp by the bathtub falls in, gives one an electric shock, you sue for damages and find the complication that the lamp and lightbulb are made in China. Another facet for the tort law lecture!
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From: Geyer, Leon [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 01:23 PM
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Subject: Re: Has anyone considered moving our ALSB discussions to a social network?
What is a bath tub? Is it related to a spa or shower? Do people read?
Just adding to digital/ technology divide.
Leon
Ok -- which is best after dropped in the bathtub? Book or kindle?
Hmmm.....
S
Lee Reed wrote:
> Dan, sorry, old-timer (wait, I'm the old-timer!). Bad analogy re the
> Kindle.. Next you'll be telling me that nothing beats the feel of a
> goose-quill pen in the fingers, and you can't compose without one.
> Kindles are incredible. I curl up with one every night.
>
> On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Herron, Daniel J. Dr.
> <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>
> The analogy I like to use is this:
>
> The electronic book is a wonderful invention---but nothing beats
> the feel of the pages, the touch of the spine, and the texture of
> the cover of a real book! One becomes "one" with the book; but
> one does not become "one" with the kindle.
>
> Dan Herron
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> Professor, Business Legal Studies
> Miami University
> Executive Secretary, Academy of Legal Studies in Business
> (www.alsb.org <http://www.alsb.org>)
> Director, Miami University Mock Trial Program
> (www.miamimocktrial.org <http://www.miamimocktrial.org>)
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> a social network?
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> I return to Steve's original premise: "E-mail is a 1990s mechanism
> for our discussions." That is what my children tell me too, so I
> reluctantly concede the point, although I'll probably stick with
> that 20 year old technology for a while longer, along with older
> tech like TV, phone, etc.
>
> A student told me last week that DVDs are obsolete (replaced, I
> assume, by YouTube and Netflix), so I quickly tossed my VCRs on
> the garage sale table. My fear of embarrassment in the
> neighborhood sent the LPs, audio cassettes and 8-track player
> straight to the landfill.
>
> Yet, Steve's point about discarding or upgrading "a 1990s
> mechanism for our discussions" causes me to reflect on the
> sustainability of academic conferences, which is the grand
> pooh-bah "mechanism for our discussions." What is it, a 1950s
> mechanism? I love all the ALSB ones, have been to most of them,
> and am organizing the next one in the Pacific Northwest (plug:
> April 20-21/12 in Portland, OR). But do we hang on to them mostly
> for emotional and social reasons, when technology can do the
> academic dissemination part?
>
> Conferences are economically feasible if one can drive to them
> within the day (never an option where I live). The annual
> conference, all in, costs me at least $2000, the regionals are a
> bit less, but getting on a plane and staying in hotels for a few
> days is expensive. By the way, the ALSB conferences are the best
> value of any conference.
>
> I appreciate email and social media are cost equivalent, and that
> face-to-face conferences provide more social value than mere
> online-type "discussion." But I wonder if we are close to the
> tipping point where higher ed institutions, fully invested in all
> the high tech bells and whistles, will say 'we can't pay any more
> for your resort-style socialization.'
>
> A clean break away from conference funding probably won't happen
> soon as long as travel budgets can be cut by stealth and as peers
> we have some say over our faculty budgets. But conferences are
> the gorilla in the room if higher ed is serious about the most
> (cost) effective "mechanism for our discussions."
>
> What do you think?
>
> Cheers,
> Peter Bowal
> The University of Calgary
>
>
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> Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2011 10:43 AM
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> I suggest that we not attempt to fix something that isn't broken.
>
> John
>
> From: Michael O'Hara [mailto:[log in to unmask]
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> Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2011 10:59 AM
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> ALSBTALK:
>
> www.Tumblr.com <http://www.Tumblr.com><http://www.Tumblr.com> is
> a gated community that provides an array of gates into and with
> other gated communities (e.g., iPhone app).
>
> Tumblr appeases the Facebook users by feeding Tumblr content
> through to their Facebook account. I will dare to assume it
> simultaneously will appease all mere email users by delivering
> "email" and by accepting email posts without any need to daily log
> on to Tumblr (i.e., register once, set, and forget it).
>
> Question #1:
> If
> an ALSBTALK member is a Facebook user,
> and if
> as a Facebook user their security settings are set to the worst
> feasible setting,
> and if
> ALSBTALK shifts to Tumblr and Tumblr ports all ALSBTALK traffic to
> Facebook,
> then
> will all ALSBTALK posts be viewable by all Facebook users?
>
> Question #2:
> If
> the answer to Question #1 is "Yes.",
> then
> do you want all Facebook-using students to see all ALSBTALK
traffic?
> Question #3:
> Currently
> as well as
> after a shift to any locked blog that ports to any other
destinations,
> which ALSBTALK posts are discoverable by a simple Google search?
> All technology is net: some net positive and some net negative.
>
> Michael
>
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