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[Doreen Peri]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 01353.html

by Joel Achenbach

Washington Post

cracked me up

[judih]

days of future past.
with the new Web 2 - everything is interactive and now and there is no future - cause it's all happened a second ago.

is it funny? it was this morning - now it's already too true!

[mousey1]

while attempting to glue my fake smile on straight this morning I happened upon this tidbit of yours and lo and behold a real smile popped onto my face. Cool. Many thanks.

This is so funny and well writ. And so true. I especially loved this bit...which I have just nabbed from the seat of the story by Joel Achenbach above...

Interactivity is an evolving process. In the future, reporters will have to have, for at least one hour a day, a reader seated at their elbow to offer helpful suggestions. Occasionally, the reader will be allowed to climb onto the reporter's lap to take charge of the keyboard. You'll start seeing interesting double bylines, such as:

By John Noble Wilford

and Some Guy Named Bob

oh ho ho ho...such a funny visual.
I'd love to climb into the lap of my favorite writer, but it wouldn't be his keyboard I'm after commandeering...no sirree Bob!

Thanks Doreen, I needed the chuckle.

[Zlatko Waterman]

Dear Doreen:

Thanks for this article.

The process described by this journalist is already far advanced in education. Or should I say "education." ( ?)

No one may be right any more, particularly the teacher. He's the "guide on the side" not the "sage on the stage" ( that's an actual quotation from some of the advisory manuals that are issued by school administration to professors). I received stacks of them during my own alleged "career."

The whole notion that someone may read something and make good use of it, having mulched it around with his own conscience and powers of discernment for thirty or forty years, is verboten.

The end result, it seems to me, is a "president" of the United States who can't read, doesn't read, can't think and closes libraries.

( see the article I posted yesterday on "CULTURE.")

--Z