[DDN] Nokia 770 for Education?

2006-06-16 Thread Brian Russell
What do educators think about students using mobile internet devices for education? For example the Nokia 770. http://www.nokiausa.com/770 Its an internet tablet with wifi built in, 800x480 touch screen, Linux based OS, bluetooth, Opera web browser, GTalk (VOIP), IM, email client, word processor,

[DDN] PodcasterCon 2006 Registration

2005-10-28 Thread Brian Russell
Registration for PodcasterCon 2006 is open. https://www.webslingerz.com/podcastercon/ What is PodcasterCon? PodcasterCon 2006 is a free one day conference open to all participants to discuss and learn about podcasting. ItÂ’s being held from 11am to 4pm, Saturday, January 7, 2006 in 116 Murphey

Re: [DDN] Free/low-cost voicemail for non-profits

2005-09-28 Thread Brian Russell
I belive k7.net provides free voicemail. They send it to you via email atached as a WAV audio file. -Brian All: Is anyone aware of low-cost or (ideally) free voicemail services available to non-profit orgs? One of my pro-bono clients is in a real bind here and needs to transition as quickly

Re: [DDN] Google IM and Talk

2005-08-26 Thread Brian Russell
The Google Talk IM service works with Macs and Linux too. It's based on the Jabber IM protocol. Check out this page for more info. http://www.google.com/talk/otherclients.html Google has only released a PC client application... -Brian Google announced today a free IM and talk service for

Re: [DDN] VOIP for nonprofits

2005-08-22 Thread Brian Russell
lines connected to it. We will kiss POTS good-bye.) I'm also cc-ing to my colleague and retired 33 year Bell System veteran. My background is in satellite coms. I have US and Canadian patents in sat antenna design. Sincerely, Jim Vines Brian Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone

[DDN] VOIP for nonprofits

2005-08-10 Thread Brian Russell
Is anyone in the US using VoIP services to save money on phone bills for small to medium size nonprofits? If so is it cost effective for you? Where you able to use the phone equipment you had already? Did this service provide long distance and local phone calls? I'm doing research on phone

RE: [Fwd: RE: [DDN] details: podcasting/videoblogging workshop inAccra]

2005-07-18 Thread Brian Russell
Andy All, Could we list the requirements we have for an Open Source Mobcasting tool? After investigating this a bit the real challenges turn out to be a finding a reliable voice server that provides a VoiceXML interpreter/browser. Any mobloging project like this is at the whim of said service.

RE: [DDN] Definition of Podcasting

2005-06-22 Thread Brian Russell
All of the blogging and podcasting I did at the CTCnet Conference is here: http://www.audioactivism.org/category/ctcnet2005/ I wrote notes about the sessions I attended and did interviews with people who spoke and attended. Including: Andy Carvin, Phil Shapiro, and Andrea I. Quijada. -Brian

Re: [DDN] DDN-related activities at CTCNet

2005-06-14 Thread Brian Russell
I'll be blogging podcasting the event on AudioActivism.org. If you'll be blogging the event try putting the following code in your posts. a href=http://technorati.com/tag/ctcnet2005; rel=tagctcnet2005/a This will help us agregate all the blog posts about the CTCnet Conference. A page on the DDN

Re: [DDN] New: CTCNet Conference News Aggregator

2005-06-14 Thread Brian Russell
Brilliant Andy! -Brian Great idea, Dan... I've just set up a new feature story on DDN that is automatically aggregating blog entries about CTCNet: http://www.digitaldivide.net/articles/view.php?ArticleID=447 How I did it: I went to the blog search engine technorati.com and searched for the

Re: [DDN] FW: Listen to Bill Moyers' historic speech

2005-05-17 Thread Brian Russell
I HIGHLY recommend that you listen, read, and watch Bill Moyers speech. I think it's a serious historic milestone. A turning point in the mainstream understanding and action behind the cause of media reform. I hope the whole world gets a chance to hear it. -Brian R. audioactivism.org I

[DDN] international conference calls

2005-04-12 Thread Brian Russell
I'm having a large group conference call to work on PodcasterCon. We have folks all around the world who want to participate. I tried using Skype conference call with five people and it just didn't work. Sounded TERRIBLE. Plus there is some difference between the mac version and the pc

[DDN] Help make PodcasterCon

2005-04-07 Thread Brian Russell
Hello all, Recently I set the ball rolling for an event called PodcasterCon. My hope is that podcasters and those wanting to learn about podcasting will work *together* to make this event. The URL is www.podcastercon.org Here is the statement of purpose as of now: PodcasterCon is a free users

[DDN] Typing software for Windows

2005-03-10 Thread Brian Russell
Hi all, I'm looking for some *free* WINDOWS software to help teach BASIC typing skills on a laptop. This is for a adult student learning to read who is an absolute beginner with computers. His job requires him to use a computer occasionally. Any suggestions? Thank you! -Brian

[DDN] Interview with Marty Kearns about Network Centric Adcocacy

2005-02-26 Thread Brian Russell
I did a podcast interview with Marty Kearns of Green Media Toolshed. We talked about GMT, what Network Centric Advocacy is, why non-profits should blog, examples of Network Centric Advocacy in action, etc. Read more about it here http://www.audioactivism.org/?p=107 Download the MP3 here

Re: [DDN] Boston Globe story on podcasting

2004-12-21 Thread Brian Russell
I found a Mac application that helps with transcribing. It's called Listen Type http://www.nattaworks.com/english.html Now if I can just find the time to transcribe all my Podcasts. Hopefully we'll find that audio file to text application. :) Putting the full text of a audio or video piece in