For every Friday in the last month, I have raved about how great 15.840 - Innovation in the Marketplace (Seminar in Marketing) is. Today's marketing class was both long and boring. I thought the 3-hour theme of the class can be summed up in one sentence: provide your users (customers) with a toolkit so that you can outsource your company's R&D and market research to them. Come to think about it, isn't this what open-source is about? That is innovation through the sharing of intellectual property. Hmmm... Interesting.
The debate on ERBA rages on again today. A survey was constructed to get feedback from students on how they feel about ERBA. But here's the question, is a survey a meaningful survey (as some has claimed) if its questions are biased against the class? Well, probably not, but it ultimately ignited a flame war in cyberspace. I personally think that the use of the survey was really a bad idea. But since I am part of the ERBA agnostic minority, I am staying away from further revolt and discussions on the issue. My advice is work smart as opposed to working hard, make studying ERBA a team effort, get on with it, and be glad you get slaughtered by ERBA (or math) while you at MIT.