avocational training
We have somebody giving a talk in the building where I work on
Wednesday. Langdon Winner from U. Cal Santa Barbara is speaking on:
the Rise of the Blogsphere and Decline of Professional Journalism. He
is a political science professor with UCSB and Rensselaer Polytechnic.
This is at 2:00 pm rm 6137 Mckeldin Library Wednesday 16 Nov 05.
It certainly seems like it might be interesting. I have to
find some way of finagling a hour or so off Wednesday afternoon now.
Robert passed the flyer for this which he got in his inbox on to me.
From the tease on the flyer Prof. Winner will allow that perhaps a
handful of the 17 million blog sites around the world have begun to
alter public discourse. He will discuss how we should view this
seemingly demcratic medium.
Librarians like Robert get to just drop in on these
things, I didn't get this flyer in my inbox. Clerks have to take
personal leave to be away from their desks, and are generally
discourged from thinking themselves to be in a place of learning.
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