Re: [DDN] free wifi comes to portland, oregon
Hi, Phil. We're in Portland, and this is great news. There's a wonderful information resource here (it's also localized for lots of other areas in the U.S.) called The Beehive. http://www.thebeehive.org It's designed to connect low-income people with important information about jobs, home ownership, education, starting a business, health care and many other topics. It's even translated to Spanish. Free wireless is one step toward making this resource widely accessible! Moodle is terrific. At Speak Shop, we are developing Spanish language curriculum in Moodle with flashcards and quizzes for people who want to work on their grammar and vocabulary. It will be open to anyone who visits our site. Cindy -- Cindy Cooper Co-Founder CMO www.speakshop.com http://www.speakshop.com Speak Shop - Learn Spanish for Good Phil Shapiro wrote: hi DDN community - this is wonderful news. portland, oregon, is getting free wifi for all its residents. 1 megabit downstream bandwidth. advertiser supported. http://digg.com/technology/Portland,_Free_Wireless,_and_Open_Source - phil this same bandwidth can be used to subscribe to podcasts and video blogs using free tools like itunes and fireant.tv. i wonder if any literacy organizations in portland might create rich media educational materials that anyone could have access to for free? distance learning possibilities using moodle (free, open source software) are also very ripe when everyone in the city gets free wireless internet. i asked the good god google to tell me who is doing computer refurbishing in portland. google pointed me to http://www.freegeek.org/ http://www.nwcgiving.org/ and i should mention that one of my favorite pacific northwest organizations, the RECA Foundation, is about 200 miles away in Kennewick, Washington. see http://www.cbpin.org/recycle.htm and http://www.digitaldivide.net/articles/view.php?ArticleID=48 ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
[DDN] Involving Youth in Violence Prevention Web Conference
Web Conference: Involving Youth in Violence Prevention http://prevent.unc.edu/education/youthviolence/yvwebconference.htm May 4, 2006, 2:00-3:30 PM ET This web conference will include presentations on projects working to prevent violence at the community level and describe the benefits of involving youth in these initiatives. [posted on PHPartners - New Links for the week of Apr 14, 2006 http://phpartners.org/ Siobhan Champ-Blackwell Community Outreach Liaison NN/LM-MCR Creighton University Health Sciences Library 2500 California Plaza Omaha, NE 68178 402.280.4156/800.338.7657 option#1,#2, then #1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nnlm.gov/mcr http://medstat.med.utah.edu/blogs/BHIC/ http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/siobhanchamp-blackwell ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
[DDN] E-Technology Challenges and Opportunities: Empowering the Graying Society
April 10, 2006 CALENDAR ANNOUNCEMENT June 19-20,2006 United Nations Headquarters, NY E-Technology Challenges and Opportunities: Empowering the Graying Society A two-date day free International Conference addressing the Age of Connectivity. Contact International Council for Caring Communities (ICCC) Fax:(212) 759-5893; E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Conference required registration form available on www.international-iccc.org As part of a series of Interlinked Congresses addressing the Age of Longevity held in cities around the globe, this conference is organized in coordination with the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations Programme on Ageing, Department of Public Information, Stony Brook University (SUNY), NGOs, and the private sector. The Conference is an implementation initative of the World Summit on the Information Society and in support of the United Nations Sixtieth Anniversary Commemoration. The E-Technology Conference interrelates basic elements that influence our quality of life -- family, education, health, housing, multi-levels of government, and the information highway ( of ICT) - offering a quality blueprint for an empowered Graying Society. When perceived with an open mind, these interrelationships offer endless opportunities for us all. The Conference's purpose is provide a dialogue which encourages new relationships and interactions that empower older persons at the local, national and international level. Also, featured is Elder Portraits an international photographic exhibition highlighting older persons 110 year and older! Each month the world's older population increases by 1.2 million! The quantity of life change has become a quality of life challenge. Program will address: Social and Economic Sustainability through Technology, E-health, Networks, and Capacity Building. Topics include: Healthcare, life-long learning, workforce transition, people-friendly accessible technology, elder abuse, and HIV/AIDS. The following questions are the underlying E-Technology Challenges and Opportunities: Empowering the Graying Society themes: * How can global connectivity assist in resolving the complex challenges of a Graying Society? * What blueprint is needed? * How role can e-health play in improving the quality of life for all? * How can technology stimulate new health related mindsets for prevention and chronic diseases? * How can elder abuse be prevented? * How can partnerships be developed which incorporate older persons' experience and augment their capacities? * How can ICT tools enhance life-long learning and empowerment? Join experts from the fields of information and communication technologies, government, business, health, and education to discuss and exchange ideas. Successful case studies, public/private partnerships, and perspectives of local authorities, NGOs and business will be featured. Please check UN Web-site for Conference up-date and required registration form www.un.org/events/agingcf.htm or www.international-iccc.org ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
[DDN] song composed as shoutback to new york times article
hi DDN community - over the weekend i composed this song (and created this multimedia) as a shoutback to last month's new york times article on the digital divide. http://digg.com/technology/New_York_Times_Reporter_Tipsy_on_Digital_Divide_Progress http://tinyurl.com/gahz5 i uploaded this multimedia to the internet archive, which provides free, permanent web hosting. - phil -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html Wisdom starts with wonder. - Socrates Learning happens through gentleness. ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
[DDN] Net Neutrality and AOL ...It Begins
I received an email today from the EFF that really brought home to me how urgent this net neutrality debate really is. If you're like me, you've been thinking that it's important, but haven't really understood how or what you can do about it, or why it's so urgent...everything seems to be played out in political power circles at a relatively slow pace, while life here in Chicago has a million demands that I have to attend to that just seem much more immediate. That changed for me today. For those of you out of the loop with AOL's involvement in this: AOL has recently proposed a filtering system that allows corporate users to pay a fee to bypass someone's spam filtering. If you have an AOL account, this means that AOL can charge me to send you a mailing. Or it can ask the DDN to pay a fee to make sure these emails continue to get to you. It can send spam back to your inbox even though you don't want it there...because spammers tend to have a *lot* of money to spend if it means bypassing someone's spam filters. Now they've taken it to another level. If you send someone an email asking them to take a critical look at AOL's new policy, your email will be filtered out. That's right. If I want to email a friend of mine who happens to be using an AOL account, and I even mention a certain website, AOL will bounce the email back to me saying that user doesn't exist. You know what? Since this email contains AOL and filter and a bunch of other terms that look suspiciously like I might not be asking you to buy AOL stock, members of this email list *may not* receive this email. If I include the actual URL I'm talking about (a site designed to ask AOL users and others to ask the company not to move forward with this), it's *guaranteed* that members of this list will not receive that email. Or receive any other email from today, if they're receiving DDN list stuff in digest form. Someone at DDN is going to get a bunch of bouncebacks that look like those addresses don't work anymore...but wait, they do! They just don't work if you're trying to make people aware of what AOL is doing. So there it is...the first salvo in the net neutrality wars. Or perhaps the nth salvo, if you ask Sascha Meinrath or others who've been talking about this for months now. AOL is censoring its email service in a direct effort to control what information its users have access to...hoping to stifle debate on this in the process. Ironically, in doing so, I would think they've shot themselves in the foot. They're claiming this was an effort to protect their users from spam...but now those users are becoming aware that there is email they are not *allowed* to receive anymore which really does *not* look like spam. Some users have tested this by sending themselves email on this, to their AOL accounts, only to have them bounce. Presumably, we shouldn't think about this too hard either, or big brother will be angry with us. We might not get our shiny AOL CDs in the mail anymore. Seriously...what were they thinking? Couldn't they at least have built an intelligent filtering system that allowed users to bypass this filter when sending to themselves, or sending to previously-contacted email addresses...just something, so it might hamper their efforts, but not make it so blatantly obvious what the company is trying to do? Then they could at least *pretend* not to be the evil empire. How hard is it to stick a bunch of if-then logic gates in your filters to make things a little more subtle? I can only conclude that the company simply didn't see the point of taking those measures...they seem to work on the basis that they have complete and total control of their customer base. (Given their product, this is stunning). What's next? If my blog criticizes AOL, does that mean that anyone using AOL or Time Warner can't see my site anymore? Can Microsoft build an operating system that doesn't allow users to visit getfirefox.com, because it's a competing product? Wait a minute, didn't the courts smack MS with some serious fines (here and in the EU) to specifically prevent this, back in the IE vs. Netscape days? I'm not even going to speculate on what Comcast or SBC could do with this precedent...they're probably sitting up and salivating. Does this mean Bush could cut off all access to anti-Bush content, or even critical discussions of the current situation in the United States or in Iraq, by paying the corporations a certain amount? Wow...that's so much easier than all this coopting the press and fear-mongering stuff. Could a company cut access to critical content to make their products look better online (AOL's doing precisely that, after all)? In every one of these scenarios, we're giving an entity with money total control over what we see, hear, and say online. To think that this will not eventually affect how we think is naive. Would we think Osama Bin Laden was so terrible if this
[DDN] 2006 ISTE SIGtel Online Learning Award Winners
ISTE's Telelearning Special Interest Group (SIGTel) Online Learning Award (OLA) competition recognizes creative teachers worldwide for their pioneering use of telecommunication networks to provide innovative learning opportunities for school-age students K16. Awards will be presented at the National Education Computing Conference (NECC) in San Diego, July 5-7, 2006. ISTE SIGtel is pleased to announce the 2006 Online Learning winning projects: 1st PLACE WINNER Jodi Prazak, Piitoayis Family School, Calgary, Alberta, CANADA TITLE: Calgary Stampede Grounds URL: http://galileo.org/stampedeschool/ SUMMARY: The relationship between Treaty 7 First Nations and the Calgary Stampede is a unique and important relationship that has helped preserve and foster First Nations cultural traditions. There is no record of this relationship available on line and few written accounts. Grade 4 First Nations Students from Piitoayis Family School worked with Grade 1/2 students from Prince of Wales school to conduct research on this traditional relationship. The historical research took the form of group on site visits to the Calgary Stampede School site to look at artifacts, experience traditions and video record elders. Students also researched using on-line resources such as the Calgary Stampede Archives and used email and print mail to connect with other experts and one another. The student research, student original art work, and student videos and student digital photos and collages made up the web resource that was created with cultural advice from Treaty 7 elders and Calgary Stampede Representatives. This web resource was deliberately created to give voice to the First Nations and European point of view and its design reflects both an oral and print culture. 2nd PLACE WINNER (team) Susan Groenke, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, USA Joellen Maples, Teacher, South Doyle Middle School, Knoxville, TN, USA TITLE: Web Pen Pals Project URL: http://web.utk.edu/~sgroenke/webpenpals/ SUMMARY: The Web Pen Pals project was created to provide a space where 8th grade struggling readers could chat about the young adult novels they are reading with college-level students (training to be English teachers) who are reading the same novels. The telecollaborative project focuses on ways to use instant messenger chat technology to support a mode of discourse--exploratory, conversational talk about literature--not often found in the classroom, in the middle school environment. We see the need for increased opportunities for students to engage in talk as a collaborative meaning-making tool, as such opportunities are often shoved out of the curriculum when high-stakes test preparation takes curricular priority. 3rd PLACE WINNER Jennifer Wagner, Crossroads Christian Schools, Corona, CA, USA TITLE: TechnoSpud Projects URL: http://www.technospudprojects.com SUMMARY: Winning teacher, Jennifer Wagner, describes herself as a cheerleader for teachers to use online projects to expand their curriculum. According to Wagner, The goal of my Technospud website is to help teachers utilize technology in a non-frightening and easy way. But, Wagner is probably most famous for helping her primary students improve their math and science skills by using Oreo cookies as manipulatives. They count, stack, graph, and share their cookie results with other kids around the world. The success of the Oreo project inspired Wagner to develop other original online collaborative projects, including Dear Soldier, DC Ducks, The Great Egg Roll, and adopting schools affected by hurricane Katrina. HIGHLY COMMENDED April Chamberlain, Paine Intermediate School, Trussville, Alabama, USA TITLE: Can You Hear Me Now? URL: http://riskwatchatpaine.blogspot.com Steve Feld, John F. Kennedy High School, New York, NY, USA Lynette Ardis, Thomas Hepburn Community School, ENGLAND TITLE: Newton's Castle and Ten Best Foods/Ten Worst Foods URL: http://www.tqnyc.org/NYC051308/index.htm Kristin Hokanson, Upper Merion Area School District, King of Prussia, PA, USA Michael Baker, South Side School District, Hookstown, PA, USA TITLE: Hands Across Pennsylvania URL: http://www.umasd.org/projects/studentprojects.htm#PAPROJ Darren Kuropatwa, Daniel McIntyre Collegiate Institute, Manitoba, CANADA TITLE: Using Web Logs and Online Resources as Assessment for Learning Tools URL: http://pc20s.blogspot.com Julie Lindsay, International School Dhaka, Dhaka, BANGLADESH John Turner, Presbyterian Ladies' College, Burwood, Victoria, AUSTRALIA TITLE: Bangladesh to Australia: Cross Cultural Learning via Online Collaboration URL: http://www.isdweblogs.org/isdtoplc/ Al P. Mizell, Nova Southeastern University, North Miami Beach, Florida, USA TITLE: SAXophone (Students Around the World eXchanging over the Phone) URL: www.fgse.nova.edu/saxophone Walter McKenzie, Public Schools of Northborough and Southborough Amesbury, MA, USA TITLE: Electric Iditarod Project URL:
[DDN] The Word that Will Get Your Blog Censored by Texas Schools Districts
Hi everyone, I've just posted a blog entry in response to recent posts by Wesley Fryer and Miguel Guhlin regarding online censorship in schools. Some school districts in Texas and elsewhere have started blocking all Web content that uses the word [EMAIL PROTECTED] (replace the @ with an a and you'll know the word I mean - I don't want this message blocked by filters either.) This website has become a magnet of controversy as of late, and it's reached the point where mere mention of it is taboo. This filtering is preventing educational bloggers and teachers from discussing [EMAIL PROTECTED] in any context, whether it relates to child safety, media literacy or another topic. Miguel has even started to organize an online protest campaign. A bit from my blog: As Miguel notes on his blog, important educational blogs like Wesley's site and the techLEARNING blog are getting censored arbitrarily because they are trying to raise awareness about sites like [EMAIL PROTECTED], encouraging critical examinations by educators and a greater emphasis on media literacy. To engage in a constructive debate about sites like this, you have to mention them. And preferably link to them. And these acts are getting bloggers banned by schools. While I strongly am against any form of censorship, I am thoroughly disgusted by school districts that allow their filters to prevent educators from engaging in professional discourse. I have lost track of the number of times that I've posted a message to my WWWEDU discussion list and received a bunch of autoreplies from school districts saying that teachers there won't be reading my post because they contain inappropriate content. Usually, these posts have to do with cases of school filtering censorship, controversial sites like [EMAIL PROTECTED] or other media literacy-related challenges faced by the modern educator. The filtering software used to supposedly protect children is preventing educators from taking an active role in understanding and discussing the complexities of Internet use in the classroom. Schools may claim in loco parentis when describing filters used to protect children. But what are they trying to protect teachers from? Being better users of technology? Being responsible, informed educators? ...The whole thing reminds me of Those We Don't Speak Of, the mysterious creatures in M. Night Shyamalan's film, The Village. The parents of the village were so paranoid about their children coming to harm's way that they wouldn't even say the name of the creatures that were supposedly lurking in the local forest. We seem to have reached that point in education - where politicians and administrators are so paranoid that educators can't even speak the names of things that may lurk in the virtual forest, lest their students be corrupted by mere mention of them The Internet is indeed our civic space - my space, your space. *Our space.* How can educators educate our children to use the Internet as responsible 21st century citizens when we can't even speak about the things that might affect them? Read the full blog entry: http://www.andycarvin.com Permalink: http://www.andycarvin.com/archives/2006/04/the_mword_that_will.html digg link: http://digg.com/technology/The_Word_that_Will_Get_Your_Blog_Censored_by_Texas_Schools_Districts thanks, ac -- -- Andy Carvin acarvin (at) edc . org andycarvin (at) yahoo . com http://www.digitaldivide.net http://www.andycarvin.com -- ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
Re: [DDN] The Word that Will Get Your Blog Censored by Texas Schools Districts
Hi Andy, When those schools administrators block the blogs of their students (my space) I also think of what kind of message we are giving to the childrens about the use of technology. Here, in Brazil we also have some messages from school administrators with a lot of roles of Dont do this or don´t do that in the computer labs that seems that even get the chance to think about the use of blogs and technology in general in a more properly, critical and positive way. For example, there were some strange deaths among teenagers in the city of Sao Paulo related to their personal blogs that were noticed in the newspapers. Because of that, the director of the school that I worked in Sao Paulo decided that we should not teach the students how to use blogs in school because of child safety. I did not agree with that position of my boss and decided to teach my students how to use this tool. He respected my position and I had a wonderful experience with my students personal blogs. It was also a wonderful way to get more in touch with their lives and themes that they were concernet about. I used to give them some ethical issues related to blogs and had no problem with my students. I think it is important to be concerned about this issues of child safety, but also give them the digital opportunity to use those tools (blogs) in an ethical and responsible way. I also had an experience of exchange with a class in a school from New Jersey and this group of children, but the experience was not successful. The reason was not the language barrier but the fact that the majority of my students did not wanted to comunicate with the american students because of the position of the Bush administration in the Iraq war during that time. We discussed this theme a lot in class and I also tried to show them that not all americans agreed with the war and so on, but I had to respect their critical view and political position about this theme. Best regards, Ana Maria Moraes. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://br.geocities.com/bibliotecamicromundos Andy Carvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: Hi everyone, I've just posted a blog entry in response to recent posts by Wesley Fryer and Miguel Guhlin regarding online censorship in schools. Some school districts in Texas and elsewhere have started blocking all Web content that uses the word [EMAIL PROTECTED] (replace the @ with an a and you'll know the word I mean - I don't want this message blocked by filters either.) This website has become a magnet of controversy as of late, and it's reached the point where mere mention of it is taboo. This filtering is preventing educational bloggers and teachers from discussing [EMAIL PROTECTED] in any context, whether it relates to child safety, media literacy or another topic. Miguel has even started to organize an online protest campaign. A bit from my blog: As Miguel notes on his blog, important educational blogs like Wesley's site and the techLEARNING blog are getting censored arbitrarily because they are trying to raise awareness about sites like [EMAIL PROTECTED], encouraging critical examinations by educators and a greater emphasis on media literacy. To engage in a constructive debate about sites like this, you have to mention them. And preferably link to them. And these acts are getting bloggers banned by schools. While I strongly am against any form of censorship, I am thoroughly disgusted by school districts that allow their filters to prevent educators from engaging in professional discourse. I have lost track of the number of times that I've posted a message to my WWWEDU discussion list and received a bunch of autoreplies from school districts saying that teachers there won't be reading my post because they contain inappropriate content. Usually, these posts have to do with cases of school filtering censorship, controversial sites like [EMAIL PROTECTED] or other media literacy-related challenges faced by the modern educator. The filtering software used to supposedly protect children is preventing educators from taking an active role in understanding and discussing the complexities of Internet use in the classroom. Schools may claim in loco parentis when describing filters used to protect children. But what are they trying to protect teachers from? Being better users of technology? Being responsible, informed educators? ...The whole thing reminds me of Those We Don't Speak Of, the mysterious creatures in M. Night Shyamalan's film, The Village. The parents of the village were so paranoid about their children coming to harm's way that they wouldn't even say the name of the creatures that were supposedly lurking in the local forest. We seem to have reached that point in education - where politicians and administrators are so paranoid that educators can't even speak the names of things that may lurk in the virtual forest, lest their students be corrupted by
Re: [DDN] Net Neutrality and AOL ...It Begins
Maybe of interest to find out more about the pros and cons and what will be the result of this if implemented: --- Email -- Should the Sender Pay? EFF Fundraiser, Debate Between Esther Dyson and Danny O'Brien In light of AOL's adopting a certified email system, EFF is hosting a debate on the future of email. With distinguished entrepreneur Mitch Kapor moderating, EFF Activist Coordinator Danny O'Brien and renowned tech expert Esther Dyson will discuss the potential consequences if people have to pay to send email. Would the Internet deteriorate as a platform for free speech? Would spam or phishing decline? WHEN: Thursday, April 20th, 2006 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. WHAT: Email - Should the Sender Pay? http://www.eff.org/bayff/ On 15 Apr 2006, at 01:22, Dave A. Chakrabarti wrote: I received an email today from the EFF that really brought home to me how urgent this net neutrality debate really is. If you're like me, you've been thinking that it's important, but haven't really understood how or what you can do about it, or why it's so urgent...everything seems to be played out in political power circles at a relatively slow pace, while life here in Chicago has a million demands that I have to attend to that just seem much more immediate. That changed for me today. For those of you out of the loop with AOL's involvement in this: AOL has recently proposed a filtering system that allows corporate users to pay a fee to bypass someone's spam filtering. If you have an AOL account, this means that AOL can charge me to send you a mailing. Or it can ask the DDN to pay a fee to make sure these emails continue to get to you. It can send spam back to your inbox even though you don't want it there...because spammers tend to have a *lot* of money to spend if it means bypassing someone's spam filters. Now they've taken it to another level. If you send someone an email asking them to take a critical look at AOL's new policy, your email will be filtered out. That's right. If I want to email a friend of mine who happens to be using an AOL account, and I even mention a certain website, AOL will bounce the email back to me saying that user doesn't exist. You know what? Since this email contains AOL and filter and a bunch of other terms that look suspiciously like I might not be asking you to buy AOL stock, members of this email list *may not* receive this email. If I include the actual URL I'm talking about (a site designed to ask AOL users and others to ask the company not to move forward with this), it's *guaranteed* that members of this list will not receive that email. Or receive any other email from today, if they're receiving DDN list stuff in digest form. Someone at DDN is going to get a bunch of bouncebacks that look like those addresses don't work anymore...but wait, they do! They just don't work if you're trying to make people aware of what AOL is doing. So there it is...the first salvo in the net neutrality wars. Or perhaps the nth salvo, if you ask Sascha Meinrath or others who've been talking about this for months now. AOL is censoring its email service in a direct effort to control what information its users have access to...hoping to stifle debate on this in the process. Ironically, in doing so, I would think they've shot themselves in the foot. They're claiming this was an effort to protect their users from spam...but now those users are becoming aware that there is email they are not *allowed* to receive anymore which really does *not* look like spam. Some users have tested this by sending themselves email on this, to their AOL accounts, only to have them bounce. Presumably, we shouldn't think about this too hard either, or big brother will be angry with us. We might not get our shiny AOL CDs in the mail anymore. Seriously...what were they thinking? Couldn't they at least have built an intelligent filtering system that allowed users to bypass this filter when sending to themselves, or sending to previously- contacted email addresses...just something, so it might hamper their efforts, but not make it so blatantly obvious what the company is trying to do? Then they could at least *pretend* not to be the evil empire. How hard is it to stick a bunch of if-then logic gates in your filters to make things a little more subtle? I can only conclude that the company simply didn't see the point of taking those measures...they seem to work on the basis that they have complete and total control of their customer base. (Given their product, this is stunning). What's next? If my blog criticizes AOL, does that mean that anyone using AOL or Time Warner can't see my site anymore? Can Microsoft build an operating system that doesn't allow users to visit getfirefox.com, because it's a competing product? Wait a minute, didn't the courts smack MS with some serious fines (here and in the
Re: [DDN] song composed as shoutback to new york times article
Phil Shapiro wrote: hi DDN community - over the weekend i composed this song (and created this multimedia) as a shoutback to last month's new york times article on the digital divide. http://digg.com/technology/New_York_Times_Reporter_Tipsy_on_Digital_Divide_Progress http://tinyurl.com/gahz5 i uploaded this multimedia to the internet archive, which provides free, permanent web hosting. - phil Great song, Phil - but I messed around a bit before I managed to listen to it, from http://ia310119.us.archive.org/0/items/whiskeyinyourjar/ then http://ia310119.us.archive.org/0/items/whiskeyinyourjar/whiskeyinyourjar.html (and methinks this is not the right way to go about it), as you'll see from my comments in your digg post. Maybe a line of instruction for blonde (or gray in my case) dummies? But seriously: UNESCO Switzerland has set various NGO's a survey about future post-WSIS action re access to information. I'll quote you. best Claude Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland www.adisi.ch ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
[DDN] Reminder: Social Networking Online Event
I just wanted to send a reminder about the Social Networking discussion tomorrow and Thursday. Join us on TechSoup, April 19th and 20th, for a free, two-day online event at: http://www.techsoup.org/socialnetwork This event will be an asynchronous discussion that will occur in the TechSoup.org forums. It will be hosted by Chris Law, co-founder of Tribe.net, Neal Gorenflo, Director of Business Development of Care2Connect.com, Alex Mouldovan, founder of CrowdFactory.com and John Lorance, Associate Director of CompuMentor's TechCommons program, and will feature representatives from LinkedIn.com, Gather.com, and others. We all love social networking applications like Friendster, Tribe, Linked in, My Space and Frappr, however, most of us have little time to use these in our personal lives, let alone to create an organizational profile for our nonprofit. Is there a use for social networking applications in the nonprofit workplace? * What do we mean by Social Networking applications? * How are these different form message-board based online communities? * Getting discovered: How do you promote your organization's services through a social networking application? * How can an online social network help your organization find volunteers and raise funds? * What is the secret to fostering and managing your online social network? You will come away with practical tips, models, resources, and tools for bringing the collaborative technologies of social networking applications to your own organization. We hope to see you there! Please feel free to forward this announcement on to your friends and colleagues. Malin Coleridge Business Analyst TechSoup.org (a program of CompuMentor) Tel: (415) 633-9346 Fax: (415) 512-9400 http://www.techsoup.org BLOCKED::http://www.techsoup.org/ http://www.compumentor.org BLOCKED::http://www.compumentor.org/ ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
