TITLE: Is He Talking About News, or Classroom Content?
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: July 14, 2009  1:06 PM
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Seth Godin
<A HREF="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/06/malcolm-is-wrong.html">
   says</A>:

<BLOCKQUOTE><EM>
People will not pay for by-the-book rewrites of news
that belongs to all of us.  People will not pay for
yesterday's news, driven to our house, delivered a
day late, static, without connection or comments or
relevance.  Why should we?
</EM></BLOCKQUOTE>

Universities may not be subject to the
<A HREF="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2009-06.html#e2009-06-11T20_24_02.htm">
   same threats as newspapers</A>,
due in some measure to
<UL>
<LI> their ability to aggregate intellectual capital
     and research capacity, </LI>
<LI> their privileged status in so many disciplines
     as the granters of required credentials, and </LI>
<LI> frankly, the lack of maturity, initiative, and
     discipline of their primary clientele.  </LI>
</UL>

But Godin's quote ought to cause a few university
professors considerable uneasiness.  In the many
years since I began attending college as an undergrad,
I have seen courses at every level and at every stop
that fall under the terms of this rebuke.
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