You may be a long-time lurker insead of a very recent reader of Kairosnews, but just in case, I'd like to suggest that you compare your posts to most of the others over time. In a place like this where the members are very much interested in "rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy," the context that the poster brings to the link can be even more important (and interesting) than the link itself.

So, my question to you is what context do you place this linked article in? What is the point of contention for you? What particular reason did you have for offering this link to Kairosnews readers?

Caveat: I am not an editor or anyone officially tied to Kairosnews, just someone who has read, participated in, and enjoyed this place for two years and forty-four weeks.

I posted this link (published originally 12/06 in (Inside Higher Education) as a 'real world' example of taking theory, i.e., that American college students will benefit from exposure to cross-cultural events and activities that their faculty plan and put into 'practice'. 

This was intended to complement the many presentations, journal articles, forums, workshops, and seminars that announce or address the need to encourage such practice within the university context.  As I believe this article reveals, such objectives can be well-meaning, but without foresight, planning, cultivation, and clear goals, such attempts can be time consuming and expensive without much benefit.  And therefore, I thought it an apt entry, if not a typical one found here.

Additionally, the linked article seems to implicity warn against a naive, wishfulling, uncritical, and solipsistic faculty mindset, albeit it does not offer any solutions or improvements in advancing a multicultural perspective. However, its suggestion seems appropriate for those interested in the intersection of the subject matter presented here.

I am not a 'lurker,' having only found this site yesterday (2/21).  I realize this word has become common parlance in computer-speak, but its connotations make me wish there were some other term to substitute for it.

Forgive me if I come off as less polite than Mike or Lanette. But coming to a site, without taking the time to learn its conventions, posting links to archived articles from IHE (by the same author) without offering any sort of explanation, looks to me like spamming, like an effort to boost the page rank of these articles. This is particularly so when you consider that this specific essay doesn't really speak to technology, rhetoric, or pedagogy directly.

I find it hard to believe that, having found the site yesterday, you have the grounds for concluding that we are naive, wishfulfilling, uncritical, and/or solipsistic, or that this site is somehow a primary source for the kinds of presentations, journal articles, forums, workshops, and/or seminars you seem intent on critiquing. I can certainly see how you might see this article as Relevant in the broader sense, but I would hope you might see how posting links like these here is not especially different from walking up to a group of strangers having a conversation, and announcing to them a particular opinion you hold.

Whether you see it or not, that's the impact that your "posts" are having.

This is a pretty open community, with conversations that wax and wane, and yes, sometimes stray beyond its avowed topics, but as a community, its members hold certain, local expectations of relevance, which, frankly, this link does not meet, apt or no.

If your intent is to join this community, then I hope you'll actually join it and write with us rather than simply posting links as a form of preaching at us. If your plan was simply to drive up PageRank for the collected works of "Izzy," then I hope you'll take your business elsewhere.

cgb

As you can see, members of the Kairosnews community are having trouble finding relevance to our focus on "rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy." Of those three, technology is almost always prevalent in things that are posted to this website.

Also, this is not del.ico.us where one merely posts a link. Almost all Kairosnews posts will typically have at least some mention of what the post is about and perhaps some commentary. Many of us use hyperlinks by linking text rather than posting an URL. In the case of this particular piece above, had you posted the explanation you have here, it is likely that community members might have found it more appealing (well, except for the lack of relevance to our focus).

I think we would all love to see another person contributing ideas and joining in discussions. So find something that ties technology to rhetoric or technology to pedagogy and include some description or commentary on the piece. Then everyone will feel like you are writing for this audience. But in reference to what Collin has said, I would see a focus on articles only by Izzy as an attempt to spam this weblog. Just so you know, I delete spam posts and block the user accounts.

Charlie Lowe
Kairosnews Editor

I would see a focus on articles only by Izzy as an attempt to spam this weblog.

Yes, I had thought that perhaps our friend IS Izzy. I know I've been known to post things from to time that I wrote.

It's been about 7 weeks since I entered the hyperlink to IHE.  If this was looked upon as spam, I apologize.  At the time I did not know what a blog was (is?)  I have since educated myself by voraciously reading and studying the blog concept,  and believe I understand a bit better.  Now I find myself feeling at odds with a culture that demands (in some contexts and professions) a continual study of modes of communication, which in my experience, seems to have diminished my own sense of personal and interpersonal development.

Regards,

Alan

http://www.inthetext.com