One thing that no one to my knowledge has tried on DDN is to create a community blog - sharing a DDN account amongst a group of people and having them all blogging. I'd also love to see more event blogging - there are lots of people on the list who attend conferences that most of us can't get to, so a blog is a useful way to sharing your experiences from the event. (For those of you planning to attend the WSIS Prepcom, _please_ sign up for a blog if you don't have one yet.) Phil Shapiro has also expressed interest in meta-journalism - having lots of people blogging about the same news topic, each from different angles. (Just for fun, I'm actually thinking of setting up a community blog and mobcast for people to critique The Gates, the upcoming NYC Central Park public art piece by the artist Christo. http://www.centralparknyc.org/)
So please share with your colleagues - they are more than welcome to come to www.digitaldivide.net, sign up for a free account, and begin experimenting with blogging. In the last month we've signed up nearly 60 bloggers, and we'd love to have many more join the community.
thanks, ac
Cedar Pruitt wrote: Many of you may not know that the Digital Divide Network offers free blogging to all of its members, but every person on this list has a free blog waiting for them at <http://www.digitaldivide.net>. Feel free to jump in and get started! Blogging can be a very rewarding way to publicly document your ideas and experiences, and on DDN you can freely experiment with this popular form of publishing.
To set up your blog, just log in (or join if you haven't already done so), click on "Edit My Profile" in the upper left-hand corner, and go to "Blog Settings" to answer a few short questions. Head on over to "Post an Entry" on the left-hand navigation menu (under 'Blogs') to write an entry. Once your blog is up and running, you can update it as frequently as you'd
like.
If you'd like to learn more about blogging, I recommend two articles: "How to Create Your Own Blog," by Andy Carvin: <http://www.digitaldivide.net/articles/view.php?ArticleID=69> and "The Blogging Phenomenon: Who? How? Why?" by yours truly: <http://www.digitaldivide.net/articles/view.php?ArticleID=86>
Looking forward to meeting all of you in the Blogosphere- Cedar
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