Posted on June 1, 2010 by wally metts
Lots of people trying lots of things to move newspapers online. Here’s another model:
If all 10,000 subscribers are paying €14.99 a month, that would mean that El Mundo is bringing in almost €150,000 a month and is set to receive almost €1.8million in a year from its paid app – a significant sum. By keeping its website free, the paper will not lose advertising revenue from those readers who do not want to subscribe.
via Premium paid online app from El Mundo has 10,000 subscribers – Editors Weblog.
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Posted on May 18, 2010 by wally metts
Robin Sloan, on generation vs recitation. Lots to think about.
A specter is haunting the internet, and I think it’s even scarier than the challenge of getting people to pay money. It’s the challenge of getting them to pay attention. I think it’s only going to get worse—which is to say, better, because we as internet users and blog readers and tweet slingers will have more cool, weird, interesting stuff to look at all the time, and it will just keep coming faster and getting cooler and fragments and—ack!
In this environment, I think generation beats recitation. I have a whole meta-riff on this—in some ways it’s as much a moral case as a practical one—but really, more than anything, it’s just that media is already full of recitation. So, for the moment, I think you get a real competitive advantage if you can show and share the process of creation.
via The future of media? Bet on events « Snarkmarket.
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Posted on May 12, 2010 by wally metts
This post also appears on my personal blog, thedaysman.com, but seemed appropriate for this blog as well.
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Thank you for bringing your concern about your grade to my attention.
The grade has been changed to the grade you felt you deserved, and was in fact the grade you earned. The discrepancy you noted regarding the group project was a valid one. The worksheet you say your friends don’t remember was a real one, however.
When I went to complete the final grade sheet for the registrar, your worksheet was the only one missing so I recreated it on a piece of scrap paper, going back through various folders and assignments to find your grades, completing the worksheet for you. And I put down the wrong number for that assignment. It was a problem that was easy to find and correct.
But I didn’t have to change your grade. Read more »
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Posted on April 18, 2010 by wally metts
Here’s the faculty tribute to seniors graduating in our department this year.
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Photo by Carol Ann Bunnell
I’ve often thought that to achieve our mission we only have to do two things: teach you to ask better questions and to tell better stories. These things arise naturally in our curriculum and even more naturally in our discipline. Learning to communicate often requires us to listen to other people’s stories and tell them well.
I think we’re getting better at doing this and I offer as proof the class of 2010. You are a remarkable group of students and we have been honored to serve you. Read more »
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Posted on April 9, 2010 by wally metts
Posted on February 19, 2010 by wally metts
Note: This is a presentation I gave in February 2010 at the 27th Annual Academic Chairperson’s Conference. It’s fairly long, by blog standards, the equivalent of six double spaced pages. A retrospective analysis of the launch of a new online only program, it discusses what I call the Field of Dreams model of program development.
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Posted on February 6, 2010 by wally metts
It’s no surprise that administrators at the Association of American Colleges and Universities’ conference this month felt that expectations about research and tenure were interfering with the quality of learning. What is surprising is that the solutions proposed are so timid. Fewer lectures will help but it won’t save us. Read more »
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Posted on January 26, 2010 by wally metts
Here’ a lecture (video), this one on the future of news. It was presented as a community of learners lecture at Spring Arbor University in December 09 and also as an invited lecture sponsored by the World Journalism Institute at the College Media Advisors conference in Austin last fall. Read more »
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Posted on January 25, 2010 by wally metts
Video of a lecture I did on the role of questions in ordinary conversation. Read more »
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