PLN Reading Response

This reading was extremely enlightening as to how my professors, family, and academic friends in research fields manage to stay educated with current events.  Although this article throws the entire thing into a very high-tech perspective, I was able to learn from the reading how to stay current WITH or WITHOUT a uniform cybernetic PLN.  My father, who teaches Race and Ethnic relations for college students, has been a subscriber (via both mail and email) to numerous sociological journals and magazines for years.  He also frequents several conventions a year, where he associates with fellow colleagues, some of whom whom he cites in his publiciations, and whose publications he hands out to his students.  His bookshelf is filled with books titled quite specifically regarding whiteness, racism, racial priveledge, etc.  I always wondered where he found those books, much less bought them.  I now realize that that shelf is the long-term result of his own, 30 year-old PLN.