James Drogan

Re: Conversations with Dave

Your breadth of interests and willingness to connect dots across time and subjects is stunning. I don't always agree with your conclusions and the means whereby you get to end-of-job, but I admire, very much, your quintessential eclecticism.

This piece brought the phrase "intellectual riff" to mind.

Someday someone is going to inquire about Dave.  Anyway, that's the hypothesis.

Re: Conversations with Dave

Some comments on Ducks in a Row By RAYMOND SOKOLOV in the October 10, 2005 issues of the Wall Street Journal.

Now that I have read this, I'm glad it didn't catch my eye during my morning read of the paper. Nonetheless, I read it anyway, didn't I?

Ah, well, perhaps this is an attempt by one of the bastions of MSM to bolster readership through the introduction of humor to a generally satirical and occasionally informative page.

Or, perhaps, editorial standards have slipped.

Or, perhaps, it is a demonstration of what could happen if editorial standards slipped.

Or, perhaps, space needed to be filled.

Or, perhaps, it is a suggestion that members of the party in power are beginning to recover from group think.

Or, perhaps, it is an opportunity taken by the author to shill his cook book.

Who knows? Who cares?

Dave generated a reply to which I retorted.

Actually, I thought the satirical cynical thread I wove was woven quite well.

My real point is in "Or, perhaps, it is a suggestion that members of the party in power are beginning to recover from group think."

This recovery, I suspect, is driven by the trends in the polls. At the end of the day it's all about Maslow's Hierarchy and the desperate avoidance of meaningful work.

The logic behind Meirs absolutely escapes me except as a stratagem to deflect attention from other, perhaps more meaningful, issues. Desperate times give rise to desperate measures. Or maybe this is all a modern Madness of King George.

I presume you mean "pun" as short for "punishing."

And Columbus Day is a day of rest at my fine institution. Hence, the rumination you have been experiencing. 

The position description may be found here.  One needs to be web savvy with trophies on the wall.

This position description may be found here.

In keeping with Drogan's Law No.2 "When things are going really well you've probably missed something." I should point out that Drogan's Law No. 4 appears to have a grammatical error.

I suspect the word "to" should really be "be", as in "The spoken word can never be taken back." ...or am I missing some bit of a clever puzzle, in which case pardon me.

Other than that your site was artful, tasteful, and impressive.

Now if you'll pardon me, I have serious work to do.

I do not know the sender, but his or her  interest, sharp eye, and compliments are appreciated.  Civility is nice, however increasingly rare, to see. 

 

Ryanair's chief executive, Michael O'Leary, said he hoped to introduce gambling facilities on flights by 2007. The European low-cost airline thinks the move might generate so much revenue that it wouldn't have to charge passengers for air fares.

Source: Business this week Nov 3rd 2005 From The Economist print edition

This paper examines the experiences gained during 2004-2005 using SLN and CourseSpace in three undergraduate and eight graduate courses with 220 students at Maritime College. Two courses were distance learning, nine were hybrid.

These experiences are described in terms of outcomes, observed strengths and weaknesses, and potential opportunities and threats. Feedback from the students is provided.

At the heart of this paper is the hypothesis that the integration of pedagogy and technology provides for a very rich learning environment and experience, but that it is not for every teacher and every student. Hence, careful vetting of the participants is critical to success.

The paper will be found in Other Information and Ideas.

From Irving Wladawsky-Berger comes this item.  It reminds me of a quote from Jim Kelly, former CEO of UPS, that I often use in my teaching.

“I believe that we’re about to witness what may turn out to be the last competitive frontier business will see.  It’s going to be a war over the one priceless resource.  Time.  And when it comes, trust may turn out to be the best investment anyone’s made.”

The conflict I see is that building trust requires time, that critical resource that seems to be in increasingly short supply.  Time also conflicts with instant gratification. 

This item from Dan Gillmore's Blog prompts me to opine that Miller's motivation may have been that she felt compelled to restore herself to the front pages after 85 days in jail.

Dowd's line

Judy told The Times that she plans to write a book and intends to return to the newsroom, hoping to cover "the same thing I've always covered - threats to our country."

suggests that Miller is planning to cover herself.

In a larger sense, however, journalists seem imbued with this haughty hubris that they are above the law.  Fitzgerald, to his credit, has said no.

Awash in Cash, Mayor Swamps Ferrer With Ads is from today's New York Times.   While I'm a bit of a fan of Bloomberg, I wonder whether this really allows the voter equal access to the candidates; whether the voter is able to make an informed decision; whether it's fundamentally fair; whether it's healthy.