I hope that I am completing the task correctly.
After reading the post and comments, I found a metaphor, which was inspired by Sylvia Martinez (response #39). She thought that Will was trying to “draw a line in the sand between practitioners and academics.”
Education is the coastline to new avenues of inquiry and exploration. Technology is a wave that has crashed, is crashing, and will continue to crash; but unlike a traditional wave, this will not wane. Web 2.0 is the tsunami that birthed Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. The people who do not ‘get it’ are trying to draw a similar demarcating line under an area that is completely submerged. The only noticeable difference is that those who are drawing the line for University of Michigan only have their ankles soaked. (I don’t feel to comfortable criticizing a Master’s Program, but it does seem like they are just trying to make a greasy buck in a secluded moment of time that will eventually evaporate)
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Hmmm, interesting. So you're not much for the new degree in social computing?? I'd like to hear more.
I'm not sure what you mean about the U/Mich folks trying to "draw a ... demarcating line under an area that is completely submerged." I think it's probably a very workable metaphor I'm just not getting it.
But that could be because I comment on 22 blogs day to day, not half a dozen a week!!
Yikes!!
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