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Colleges Outsourcing Email To MS Live, Google
Andy Guess tips us to his article at Inside Higher Ed offering a detailed look at the snowballing trend of colleges outsourcing their email infrastructure, mostly to Google and Microsoft Live. Even outsourcing just email would presage big changes in the work that IT departments do on campus; but more such changes are on the horizon as schools grapple with entering freshmens' already entrenched online habits.
GOML - I love it. A new phrase it born, soon to be on the ascendency.
It always interesting to watch internet memes be born, grow in usage, jump the shark and then either dim into ironic retro-use or fade away in oblivion. And then to realize that the entire phenomenon is only being perceived by you from your perspective.
'FTW', for instance. That is relatively new to me - 'For the Win'. It's turned into this year's 'LOL' (circa 2004-5). Of course, that leads you to the whole LOL-Cats thing, which seems to have peaked in the last few months (again, that's how I've perceived it). I recently read, probably linked from somewhere on Slashdot, a comprehensive history of the LOL-Cats meme, with references and historical examples - it must be close to apogee.
Relevant to this post: and on the ascendency in the category of 'forum-shorthand-ackronym' category is "Get Off My Lawn", which I first recall getting some airplay on SNL by Will Forte a year or two ago. And recently being used more and more on Slashdot, usually as shorthand for "the old way was better" or "you have it so easy these days", both of which evoke an aesthetic sense about the virtue of correctness in the face of expediancy.
I like it, and it needs shorthand, just like LOL, YMMV, IANAL, and A/S/L:
As in a retort to a comment about servicing current automobiles, "GOML - it was better when a local mechanic could just adjust the carburetor and clean the points"
'GOML'. (FTW)