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

2005-01-26 Thread Thomas A Webb
Most urban areas are pretty broadly served in this country. It's easy to forget that millions of us live in in areas that aren't urban. Tom Abeles wrote: We traveled in the rural US this summer and we did not take a laptop along. We had very little problem finding free broadband Internet access

[DDN] Have you started your free DDN blog yet?

2005-01-26 Thread Cedar Pruitt
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

[DDN] Re: Have you started your free DDN blog yet?

2005-01-26 Thread Andy Carvin
I'd like to add to what Cedar wrote and extend the blogging invitation to your colleagues and students. We're very eager to have more people experiment with blogging as a medium for communication, civic engagement, community development and education. Since our DDN blogging tool is simple,

Re: [DDN] Assembling a DDN jargon dictionary on our new wiki

2005-01-26 Thread Andy Carvin
Absolutely, but that would have to be a task of the volunteers contributing definitions to the site ac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 1/26/05 11:27:33 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The recent conversation about RSS and the subsequent questions about What

RE: [DDN] Free Online Computer Training - feedback please

2005-01-26 Thread Champ-Blackwell, Siobhan
Thanks Kevin, This is very helpful and I appreciate the time you took to give a thorough analysis. Since you need to sign into an account, I was hesitant to look deeper into this program without this kind of feedback. Siobhan Siobhan Champ-Blackwell, MSLIS Community Outreach Liaison National

Re: [DDN] Assembling a DDN jargon dictionary on our new wiki

2005-01-26 Thread Taran Rampersad
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 1/26/05 11:27:33 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The recent conversation about RSS and the subsequent questions about What exactly is RSS? got me thinking that we need to have a repository on the DDN website of commonly used

Re: [DDN] Assembling a DDN jargon dictionary on our new wiki

2005-01-26 Thread David P. Dillard
In this regard these two websites may be of interest. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy E. D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, James Trefil Third Edition: Completely Revised and Updated http://www.bartleby.com/59/ Glossary An alphabetical listing of all terms in the CDD glossary.

[DDN] What happened to the NTIA A Nation Online report?

2005-01-26 Thread Andy Carvin
Hi everyone, I just went to look up some stats from the most recent NTIA/Department of Commerce study on the US digital divide, but was surprised to see that it's vanished: http://www.ntia.doc.gov/reports/anol/NationOnlineBroadband04.htm All I get is a dead link. And when you look at the main

Re: [DDN] Municipal broadband efforts in the US

2005-01-26 Thread Charlie Meisch
FYI - Here's an article that ran yesterday in eWeek re: muni broadband. http://www.eweek.com/print_article2/0,2533,a=143202,00.asp Muni-Wireless: The Battle Continues January 25, 2005 By Carol Ellison If you thought the debate over municipal broadband and its attendant Wi-Fi services ended with

[DDN] some tips for adding links to your DDN profile

2005-01-26 Thread Phil Shapiro
hi everyone - here are a couple of tips for adding links to your DDN profile (on the Digital Divide Network web site. http://www.digitaldivide.net) 1. choose links that reveal the contours of your professional interests in the field of technology, community development and education 2.

Re: [DDN] What happened to the NTIA A Nation Online report?

2005-01-26 Thread Joe Crawford
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:03:40 -0500, Andy Carvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I just went to look up some stats from the most recent NTIA/Department of Commerce study on the US digital divide, but was surprised to see that it's vanished:

Re: [DDN] What happened to the NTIA A Nation Online report?

2005-01-26 Thread Andy Carvin
Thanks... I looked everywhere on the homepage except for that particular note. :-) ac Champ-Blackwell, Siobhan wrote: http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ - no conspiracy, but a hardware failure: January 24, 2005: NTIA has experienced a hardware failure on its webserver. The data here is from an older

Re: [DDN] Assembling a DDN jargon dictionary on our new wiki

2005-01-26 Thread DSSA310
In a message dated 1/26/05 11:27:33 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The recent conversation about RSS and the subsequent questions about What exactly is RSS? got me thinking that we need to have a repository on the DDN website of commonly used jargon and their definitions