Everyone gets paid on commission
by Scott McLeod
[from Seth Godin, Everyone gets paid on commission]
The Washington Post recently laid off a columnist because his blog posts didn't get enough web traffic.Of course, in the old days, the newspaper had no real way to tell which columns got read and which ones didn't. So journalists were lulled into the sense that it didn't really matter. The Times quotes Jay Rosen, a journalism professor at NYU, “It’s an unusual public rationale for serious newspaper people, that’s for sure.”
Wrong tense. It's not going to be unusual for long.
Wouldn't it be interesting if this concept was applied to academia?
1 comment
Nov 02, 2009
Jason Hunt said...
Although there has been quite a bit of hype and the site is now blocked with our filters, I do believe that there is something to ratemyteacher.com, especially if the masses of students participated. Although many at our school were upset at the rankings, they seems to accurately express what I've seen in my few years here.
