Melissa and I are flattered
The Seattle Times has an interesting job posting. One-Year Community Engagement Editor
Here's the job description:
It would appear that the Times would like to compete with this blog. That's not necessary. They can get a better deal by simply offering the job to Melissa. That way for the same price as a chance to steal this blog's traffic they can simply buy it.
Here's the job description:
The community engagement editor for the Seattle Times-Solutions Journalism Project will bring a startup mentality and passion and tenacity for seeking solutions to the big questions facing education. In this one-year position, the editor will develop and manage a blog for the project that will become the region’s destination for education conversations. This editor will edit and curate staff and community contributions and conversations, making the blog a destination for the latest news and most innovative thinking on education advances and policies.
It would appear that the Times would like to compete with this blog. That's not necessary. They can get a better deal by simply offering the job to Melissa. That way for the same price as a chance to steal this blog's traffic they can simply buy it.
Comments
One, I believe that their blog, like Stand's, LEV's and Our Schools, will be severely controlled. Without real dialog, you don't have a blog.
Two, we barely control the dialog here so I wish them luck.
I'm all for more education outlets.
That said, I agree with Melissa that the more outlets to talk about education the better.
Keep up the good work here. I click on the ads every time I visit.
You need to mix the jargon up with name dropping and insider scoops which won't get you in trouble.
"Shannon and Lisa were talking about ... and ... NCTQ backed up with a CRPE study on Meritorious Merit, Muck and Crap..."
"Vicki and Bill ...MET'd the GET and good thing I had that thumb drive! Bill walked by me!"
Sadly, you can't just put a shrine To Bill on a cart, and push The Care To Bill into the room, while you scurry along behind on your hands and knees, belting out "How Great Thou Art!" You have to pretend like their gossip is interesting, you have to pretend like their ideas aren't founded up on lies, and you have to pretend like the lies don't exist to cover power tripping venality. It isn't the kind of "intelligence" which creates the wheel, penicillin, the printing press, the semiconductor, the steam engine, duct tape ... but, when compared to the contestants on Big Brother or Survivor, the Lisas & Pauls & Vickis & Chriss all
LookLikeEinsteins.
Anyway we're glad you're here, and I think that if the Seattle Times tries to outdo you they will only draw more traffic to, and interest in, this blog.
Danielle
For reasons already listed here, it died a quiet death. TheTimes has zero credibility when speaking about education, thanks to Lynn Varner.
It's kinda like your lying uncle, starting a new business and looking for investors.
LooklikeEinsteins, also very funny (but I think you go to different parties than I do).
Name, thank you for the support (it keeps us in gas money).
It's an echo chamber, not a conversation.
If I had the money, they'd sing MY song. I understand that the Times is struggling, but aren't they a news organization? Isn't news neutral? By accepting Gates funding to be the Gates mouthpiece for education "solutions," they have become merely another Gates prpaganda organ.
I just wonder why Gates had to give them money - the Times was already singing the "reform" song. Bytaking Gates money, all they've done is erase any appearance of objectivity.