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The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy

Adjunct Faculty, The Burros of Academia by Dr. Burton Fletcher - 0 views

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shared by The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy on 28 Mar 09 - Cached
  • The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy on 28 Mar 09
     
    Ah, all of this, and you get paid $1200-$1500 / semester, IF your class doesn't get cancelled, and I would know about the salary. I was about to become one of those adjuncts, teaching introductory probability and statistics, when I found that only three students at that college were willing to sign up for that class, listed in the schedule as being taught by the well known Prof.Staff. (He gets around a lot). I still remember walking down the street, wondering what happened, when passing a line of people hoping to get into a class that did seem to be of interest to students - "finding your animal spirit guide". No, I'm not making that up. A little about the "privileged" life that the backbreaking work they did in graduate school made possible, for so many, while the former frat boy executives who drank and cheated their way through school have so often ended up having to struggle by on six figure incomes, as they stare forlornly out their corner office windows. I'm not guessing about the frat boys. I've tutored and graded the papers of a number of these "achievers". A little more truth about life in the so-called land of opportunity, in the Postmodern Era.
Todd Suomela

OnTheCommons.org - The economics of online commons - 0 views

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shared by Todd Suomela on 12 May 08 - Cached
  • The focus of many presentations was how to organize the production and distribution of new creative works in a world where free/cheap digital transmission is the norm. It turns out that many established institutions—if they are going to come to terms with the Internet—are going to have to seriously transform themselves in order to survive.
    • Todd Suomela
      Todd Suomela on 12 May 08
       
      Key summary of the conference in Amsterdam.
  • If you want to see the future, one of the best places to look is the freeboot innovators of the underground. They are always the ones who tried out the new ideas that later ripen into market opportunities. Think how hip-hop emerged from record-scratchers in Brooklyn basements and how the hobbyists of the Homebrew Computer Club pioneered many of the early innovations in computing.
  • The idea of “culture without property” seems just too radical and counter-intuitive for some folks to get (or they get it only too well, because it jeopardizes their established business model). But this is not actually such a radical vision. There are already all sorts of profit-making enterprises that are building business models around open, non-proprietary platforms. IBM’s embrace of GNU Linux, the open-source operating system, is one of many prominent examples. So is Flickr, the photo-sharing website.
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