Academic jargon is so easy to make fun of, and this bloated analysis of webzines and personal web sites certainly invites some satiric jabs. Complete with references, in case you were wondering. This summer, the University of Washington will offer short college courses online for free on the Learning Network's Lifelong Learning site. The noncredit courses are based on full-length online classes offered at the university. Sales of all print materials are down.
Business people read condensations of books on management.
The claim is that people just don't have time to read any more, but there is more to it. Schools offer bowdlerized and Disneyized versions of literature, taking it for granted that their students have neither the patience nor the capacity for anything else. I think so. With social, economic and political issues becoming every more complex, the majority of people are less and less informed. If Mr. Spreitzer gets most of his news from television, he is getting a highly biased and fragmented view of what's going on in the world.