[DDN] FCC Chairman Powell reportedly resigning today

2005-01-21 Thread Andy Carvin
The wire services are reporting that FCC Chairman Michael Powell is resigning today. Powell caused controversy several years ago when he referred to his Mercedes divide when asked about the digital divide. AP/Yahoo story: http://tinyurl.com/3uz9t ac -- --- Andy

[DDN] Re: [WWWEDU] RSS: The Next ICT Literacy Challenge?

2005-01-21 Thread Andy Carvin
class readers] now puts more effort into its online site because it has had more readers online then in print for quite awhile now. Ja Young */Andy Carvin [EMAIL PROTECTED]/* wrote: Sounds like RSS feeds will be one of the next major ICT literacy challenges for the general public

[DDN] Tutorial: How to Create Your Own Mobcast

2005-01-17 Thread Andy Carvin
-- --- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldivide.net http://www.tsunami-info.org Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com

[DDN] blog: when mobile podcasting leads to mobcasting

2005-01-16 Thread Andy Carvin
mobcasting. To read more, please visit here: http://www.andycarvin.com permalink: http://www.andycarvin.com/000712.html Would love to hear your thoughts on the concept. thanks, ac -- --- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http

Re: [DDN] Webcast: How the Internet New Media are Reshaping Tsunami Relief Efforts

2005-01-16 Thread Andy Carvin
PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. -- --- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldivide.net http://www.tsunami-info.org Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com

[DDN] Podcast: Overcoming Wikipedia's Growing Pains

2005-01-11 Thread Andy Carvin
no longer have to hear the hard drive whizzing in the background. :-) -- --- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldivide.net http://www.tsunami-info.org Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com

[DDN] Webcast: How the Internet New Media are Reshaping Tsunami Relief Efforts

2005-01-10 Thread Andy Carvin
, using key words to connect relief workers on the ground with sources of materials and supplies. This led to the development of Alert Retrieval Cache (ARC), which has been covered by the BBC and other media in the last week. Moderator: Andy Carvin, Digital Divide Network Andy Carvin is director

[DDN] Ministers Denounce SBC Internet-Cable TV Push as 'Digital Redlining' (fwd)

2005-01-09 Thread Andy Carvin
members devoted to bridging the digital divide between those who have ready access to the Internet and those who do not, and ensuring that basic technology such as phone service remains accessible and affordable for all. -- --- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC

[DDN] DDN's Citizen Journalist community and podcasting

2005-01-08 Thread Andy Carvin
not a member, since membership is required to participate in DDN communities. thanks, ac -- --- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldivide.net http://www.tsunami-info.org Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com

[DDN] admin: thoughts on changing policy re: html messages

2005-01-07 Thread Andy Carvin
general consensus that posting in HTML is acceptable to the group, I'll make the rule change in the FAQ. thanks, ac -- --- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldivide.net http://www.tsunami-info.org Blog

Re: [DDN] admin: thoughts on changing policy re: html messages

2005-01-07 Thread Andy Carvin
doesn't have these advantagesand won't for a good long time. Let the spammers choke on their own HTML. Let's keep the policy - and in fact encourage our members to send *all* mail in plain text. My two cents. John Hibbs http://www.bfranklin.edu/johnhibbs At 11:07 AM -0500 1/7/05, Andy Carvin

Re: [DDN] admin: thoughts on changing policy re: html messages

2005-01-07 Thread Andy Carvin
software to strip out HTML like Yahoogroups or Listserv, but instead it's set up to trash messages rather than strip them. ac Richard Siddall wrote: Andy Carvin wrote: [snip] 4. The amount of time I spend moderating list messages has doubled, if not tripled, solely due to dealing with this problem

Re: [DDN] admin: thoughts on changing policy re: html messages

2005-01-07 Thread Andy Carvin
1/7/05, Andy Carvin wrote: Hi everyone, In recent months we've had some problems with getting list members' messages to the list because of the increasing number of messages in HTML. (snip) ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE

[DDN] The Tsunami as a Wake-Up Call to Bridging the Digital Divide

2005-01-04 Thread Andy Carvin
I've just posted an essay on DDN that I wanted to share with you. Here's the full text. -ac The Tsunami as a Wake-Up Call to Bridging the Digital Divide By Andy Carvin, EDC Center for Media Community http://www.digitaldivide.net/articles/view.php?ArticleID=84 As everyone knows by now, the last

[DDN] my tsunami/digital divide essay now available as a podcast

2005-01-04 Thread Andy Carvin
and takes up seven megabytes. Meanwhile, you can still read the text version here: http://www.digitaldivide.net/articles/view.php?ArticleID=84 thanks, ac -- --- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldivide.net

Re: [DDN] ARC system created: SMS to Email in Tsunami hit areas now ineffect.

2005-01-03 Thread Andy Carvin
in the following link seems slightly familiar - it may be. It's a project that got into production in less than 2 hours after we got the right people together - which took 72 hours. http://www.knowprose.com/node/1145 This is what can be done. This is action. -- --- Andy Carvin

[DDN] Introducing Tsunami-Info.org

2005-01-02 Thread Andy Carvin
. thanks, ac -- --- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldivide.net Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com --- ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing

[DDN] assistance requested for my new site, tsunami-info.org

2005-01-01 Thread Andy Carvin
-- --- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldivide.net Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com --- ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list

Re: [DDN] audio archive of yesterday's webcast

2005-01-01 Thread Andy Carvin
. The required software is a 6MB Java Web Start download, vs the 60 MB mp3. The recording was posted here, right after yesterday's session: http://www.learningtimes.net/ddnarchives.shtml Regards, jw --- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin

Re: [DDN] first DDN webcast on tsunami relief workspace starting soon

2004-12-30 Thread Andy Carvin
of the site scheduled for the same time tomorrow, please email me off-list. thanks, ac Andy Carvin wrote: Hi everyone, The first of two webcasts explaining DDN's new workspace for discussing disaster relief will begin in just over 15 minutes at 7am ET/12:00 GMT. To participate, please go to http

[DDN] new: tsunami news aggregator

2004-12-30 Thread Andy Carvin
it into the Add a Favorite form field in the right column. Or, you can go here: http://kinja.com/add.knj Hope this digest is useful to those of you eager to follow tsunami relief efforts -- --- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc

[DDN] webcast tour of DDN's disaster relief resource workspace

2004-12-30 Thread Andy Carvin
. thanks! -- --- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldivide.net Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com --- ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list

[DDN] a DDN community on ICTs and disaster relief?

2004-12-29 Thread Andy Carvin
if creating one now would be too late, or if it would be useful to members of our group who are involved in relief efforts in one way or another. thanks, ac -- --- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http

[DDN] Blog: For the Woman With the Green Eyes the Children of Mahabalipuram

2004-12-29 Thread Andy Carvin
-- --- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldivide.net Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com --- ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list

Re: [DDN] a DDN community on ICTs and disaster relief?

2004-12-29 Thread Andy Carvin
://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. -- --- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http

[DDN] News: DDN, LearningTimes launch online workspace for tsunami relief efforts; Live webcasts Thursday

2004-12-29 Thread Andy Carvin
For Immediate Release December 29, 2004 Contact: Andy Carvin, Digital Divide Network 1-617-335-7646 acarvin -at- edc . org DDN, LEARNINGTIMES LAUNCH ONLINE WORKSPACE FOR TSUNAMI RELIEF EFFORTS Virtual tours of the workspace and e-conferencing tool will take place Thursday, December 30 at 7am

[DDN] thoughts and prayers for our South Asian/ SE Asian colleagues

2004-12-26 Thread Andy Carvin
and Indonesia as well; I hope all of you and your families are safe. If anyone has word on the sitution of fellow DDN members, please let us know. Our thoughts and prayers are with all of you who are being affected by this tragedy. -- --- Andy Carvin Program Director

[DDN] Podcast: Making Podcasting Accessible to All

2004-12-23 Thread Andy Carvin
who want to subscribe to my future podcasts using software like iPodderX, please use my blog's RSS feed: http://www.andycarvin.com/index.xml Here's the transcript: Hi everyone, Andy Carvin here Welcome to the first official podcast for my blog, Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth. I'll

Re: [DDN] Boston Globe story on podcasting

2004-12-21 Thread Andy Carvin
Jr wrote: Guys, Dont forget that it probably doesn't support transcripts for deaf community. I did talked about it in my recent blog... http://blog.grantlairdjr.com gwlj -- --- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http

Re: [DDN] Boston Globe story on podcasting

2004-12-20 Thread Andy Carvin
it. The revolution will be televised? Blogged? Nope. Podcast. ac -- --- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldivide.net Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com

Re: [DDN] Boston Globe story on podcasting

2004-12-20 Thread Andy Carvin
-- --- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldivide.net Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com --- ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

[DDN] new DDN website launches today!

2004-12-13 Thread Andy Carvin
together to develop new real-world strategies for bridging the digital divide. Thanks, Andy Carvin Director, DDN (acarvin @ edc . org) Cedar Pruitt Editor, DDN (cpruitt @ edc . org) -- --- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org

[DDN] Live Webcast: A Tour of the Digital Divide Network

2004-12-13 Thread Andy Carvin
or headphones; a microphone is recommended but not required. For more information about the event, please email me off-list. thanks, ac -- --- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org Blog: http

[DDN] UN Summit on Power Users of Technology

2004-12-13 Thread Andy Carvin
Street Newton, MA 02458 T: (617) 618 2016 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cmc.edc.org Sent via BlackBerry Wireless. -- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldivide.net Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com

[DDN] Remdiner- Live Webcast: A Tour of the Digital Divide Network

2004-12-13 Thread Andy Carvin
; a microphone is recommended but not required. For more information about the event, please email me off-list. thanks, ac -- --- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com

[DDN] Celebrating WWWEDU's 10th anniversary

2004-12-13 Thread Andy Carvin
here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwwedu/ To subscribe, simply email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and you'll be added to the list. thanks, ac -- --- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldivide.net Blog: http

[DDN] UK: Millions to miss out on the net

2004-12-08 Thread Andy Carvin
and more burdensome for those that have not got net access, it predicts. snip http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4076717.stm -- --- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org Blog: http

[DDN] Calls for computer science to be made compulsory subject in German schools

2004-11-23 Thread Andy Carvin
educated in the subject. http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/53547 -- --- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com

[DDN] Event: Modernising Governments - E-Government for Efficient Service Delivery

2004-11-16 Thread Andy Carvin
Government ministers and senior officials dealing with e-government planning and implementation * Private Sector leaders, solutions providers To attend please register at: http://www.cbcglobelink.org/cbcglobelink/events/EGOV04/index.htm -- --- Andy Carvin Program

[DDN] blogging from Tallinn

2004-11-15 Thread Andy Carvin
-- --- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com --- ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list

[DDN] Admin: Off to Europe for the Week

2004-11-12 Thread Andy Carvin
thanks, ac -- --- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com --- ___ DIGITALDIVIDE

[DDN] re: E-rate and schools rely on suspended tech money..

2004-11-05 Thread Andy Carvin
-- --- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com --- ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

[DDN] webcast: Hot Technologies Transforming Schools Today

2004-10-19 Thread Andy Carvin
://www.cosn.org/events/webcasts/ -- -- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog

[DDN] B. Keith Fulton Named Vice President, Strategic Alliances for Verizon (fwd)

2004-10-18 Thread Andy Carvin
the News Center and register for customized automatic delivery of Verizon news releases. -- -- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog

[DDN] 10th anniversary of EdWeb and my Waste of Bandwidth!

2004-10-15 Thread Andy Carvin
) and say hello when you get a chance... thanks, ac -- -- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog

[DDN] admin: on holiday for a long weekend

2004-10-05 Thread Andy Carvin
. thanks, ac -- -- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog

[DDN] Blog: Emerging Technologies that will Change the World

2004-09-30 Thread Andy Carvin
talking about current trends in innovation and invention. It's rather long, so I won't post it here, but you can find it online at http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/ thanks, ac -- -- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc

Re: [DDN] Tim Berners-Lee: Weaving A Semantic Web

2004-09-30 Thread Andy Carvin
speech. http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/10/frauenfelder1004.asp -- -- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog

[DDN] Live in Cambridge: Tim Berners-Lee on the Web in education

2004-09-29 Thread Andy Carvin
other. And for that we need lots of tools, lots of standards, lots of technology Theres lots of work to do out there More soon ac -- -- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org http

[DDN] CFP: Conference on Communities and Technologies

2004-09-22 Thread Andy Carvin
Thought this might be of interest. Please contact the organizers for more information... -ac -- -- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog

[DDN] Position: Senior Manager Microsoft Community Affairs

2004-09-21 Thread Andy Carvin
to make winning judgments. For more information, please visit http://www.microsoft.com/unlimitedpotential Send resumes to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org http

[DDN] ICT Based Interventions Can Help Reducing Poverty, UNESCO Research Report Says

2004-09-21 Thread Andy Carvin
-- -- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/ -- ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

[DDN] New Creative Commons License Frees Creativity Across the Digital Divide

2004-09-21 Thread Andy Carvin
be put to good use? I'd love to hear about it -andy Andy Carvin EDC Center for Media Community acarvin at edc.org ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message

[DDN] HP Middle School Science Leadership Grant

2004-09-20 Thread Andy Carvin
in advance of the upcoming No Child Left Behind science assessments being implemented across the country in 2006/2007. To apply or obtain more information, schools may visit http://grants.hp.com/us/programs/science_leadership.html -- -- Andy Carvin Program

[DDN] South Africa's Public Internet Access Lags Behind Peer Countries

2004-09-17 Thread Andy Carvin
as a leading player in using technology to bridge the digital divide. The world's first internet cafe opened in 1994 and Johannesburg welcomed a cafe of its own in 1995. http://www.sdnp.undp.org/perl/news/articles.pl?id=6907do=gpage -- -- Andy Carvin Program Director

[DDN] Announcing the WSIS Telecentres Working Group!

2004-09-01 Thread Andy Carvin
will not open until September 15; at that point, I will post an announcement welcoming members to the list, encouraging them to post personal introductions. Then, we will proceed with the discussion. For more information, please contact Andy Carvin at the address below. For more on WSIS, please visit

[DIGITALDIVIDE] Fwd: An invitation to a unique blogging experience

2004-08-26 Thread Andy Carvin
The following message was posted to my WWWEDU discussion group. Thought it might be of interest... -ac Andy Carvin acarvin at edc dot org --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robert Brannan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Below is a news article that I posted today regarding an upcoming event that I think many

[DIGITALDIVIDE] AOL Targeting Hispanic Customers (fwd)

2004-08-13 Thread Andy Carvin
, according to the 2004 U.S. Hispanic Market Report by research firm Synovate. snip http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/news/newsbyid.asp?id=17501 Andy Carvin acarvin at edc .org ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo

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