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
>
>
> From: Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) Talk
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> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>] On Behalf Of John Allison
> 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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