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Andy, Can you expand on the technical as well as popular implications of mobcasting? I see that the new nokia N series phone is being referred to as a pod killer. I think there is a lot of room for coexistence. Even in small towns in a poor country like Ghana it is not impossible to find phones which can play mp3 or AAC with storage of about 6t4m. amos Actually, this is one of the things I hope to do with mobcasting: to allow people in the south to be able to record and listen to online podcasts on their mobile phones. I'm working to put together the specs for the software, then plan to recruit some programmers to tackle it. Then, hopefully it would be possible to host Mobcaster software on a local server anywhere in the world and let locals use their phones to access podcasts -- Amos Anyimadu [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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.
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Dear Andy, Pam, and All, Hello and look forward to blogs from Budapest! What you propose below is incredibly exciting to me too, as we use mobile phones in our projects and are always looking for new, lower-tech, and cheaper ways to create and disseminate info. Please keep us informed about these developments, Andy, and in the meantime, Pam, you might want to hook up with orgs like Developing Countries Farm Radio Network (focus on health and nutrition), WorldSpace, First Voice International, and AMARC, as you might find programs there for radio listening in particular, and perhaps contacts with radio stations already in existence (ie w/whom you might be able to link for pogrammatic content more easily). I'll be delighted to discuss some ideas w/you individually too, as we have some of the same challenges and needs in Kenya, and are both searching for solutions and creating some ourselves. Many thanks and all best wishes, and here's to casting our lots with pods for mobs, Janet (Feldman, [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Andy wrote: hi Pam... Actually, this is one of the things I hope to do with mobcasting: to allow people in the south to be able to record and listen to online podcasts on their mobile phones. I'm working to put together the specs for the software, then plan to recruit some programmers to tackle it. Then, hopefully it would be possible to host Mobcaster software on a local server anywhere in the world and let locals use their phones to access podcasts ___ 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.
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Ross Gardler wrote:: Ross Gardler wrote: ...Remember that bandwidth need not be a live Internet connection It would be great if someone with a media bent could create a set of dramatisations on key subjects (such as HIV/AIDS) in an accessible form. Something along the lines of the BBC World Serice WestWay series (http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/arts/features/westway/index.shtml ) They get around the problem of being understandable by having lots of characters that are not native English speakers. Hence they speak in understandable ways. DOes anyone know a drama or media student looking for a final year project to do? Ross - you have got me thinking. Community radio has always been part of our plan - but for community radio you need a license... (and our problems there are another story.) We want to speak to people - preferably in Yoruba. We have played with ideas of audio cassettes.We even considered getting a PA system to use on market days But all of these ideas were too extravagant in time and/or money for our meager resources - so the spoken word side of things has been on hold. Maybe its time to start thinking again. As you say - no need for computers - a much cheaper way to disseminate information... I haven't followed the threads on podcasting - but gather its an easily accessible way of generating and sharing the spoken word. It could be a good supplement to the other work of our InfoCentre... If any media students do think of following up Ross's idea please also consider the farm radio scripts that are available - I forget the source but perhaps other DDN members know - if not I could hunt around. I have no time to follow through on this at the moment for Ago-Are - but it's back bubbling in my mind again - so thanks Ross for bringing forward again the issue of the spoken word and alternative strategies for disseminating it. Pam Pamela McLean [EMAIL PROTECTED] . . We considered a ___ 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.
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Pamela McLean wrote: Ross Gardler wrote: Remember that bandwidth need not be a live Internet connection. I recently passed a Compact Flash containing a number of key presentations from IT Conversations to a colleague in rural Guyana. In his village he doesn't even have a computer, let alone an Internet connection. Yet that lack of bandwidth does not limit him with podcasting, he'll be using an MP3 player to listen to the podcasts and will be using what he learns from them to convince the village community that they need an IT Centre. Ross Would this information be appropriate to share with the community in Ago-Are - to give them a clearer vision of the potential of their InfoCentre? The particular info I was mentioning is all IT related stuff. So I doubt that it will be applicabe to the Ago-Are community. However, as I mention in a subsequent mail there should be other items that are more applicabe to the community in Ago-Are. They do have computers (not very high spec but some do include sound). Could the info go to them on a CD?. Yes What are the accents like? How fast do the contributors speak? i.e. How well must my Ago-Are people understand English to make sense of it? (The people I have in mind to listen can understand my English - but not if I speak too fast - i.e my usual rate...). This is not an issue for Guyana (English speaking). For something like the BBC West Way series it is designed for non-english speakers. It would be great if someone with a media bent could create a set of dramatisations on key subjects (such as HIV/AIDS) in an accessible form. Something along the lines of the BBC World Serice WestWay series (http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/arts/features/westway/index.shtml ) They get around the problem of being understandable by having lots of characters that are not native English speakers. Hence they speak in understandable ways. DOes anyone know a drama or media student looking for a final year project to do? By the way does this renewed activity mean that the floods have gone down and life is getting a little easier there in Guyana now - I hope so.. To an extent. The floods have gone, but the damage is still being repaired. Ross ___ 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.
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hi Pam... Actually, this is one of the things I hope to do with mobcasting: to allow people in the south to be able to record and listen to online podcasts on their mobile phones. I'm working to put together the specs for the software, then plan to recruit some programmers to tackle it. Then, hopefully it would be possible to host Mobcaster software on a local server anywhere in the world and let locals use their phones to access podcasts andy en route to budapest Andy Carvin EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldivide.net http://www.andycarvin.com -Original Message- From: Pamela McLean [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue, 10 May 2005 21:32:37 +0100 Subject: Re: Sharing Podcasts with those without connectivity )was Re: [DDN]Webheads and the Digital Divide Network) Ross Gardler wrote:: Ross Gardler wrote: ...Remember that bandwidth need not be a live Internet connection It would be great if someone with a media bent could create a set of dramatisations on key subjects (such as HIV/AIDS) in an accessible form. Something along the lines of the BBC World Serice WestWay series (http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/arts/features/westway/index.shtml ) They get around the problem of being understandable by having lots of characters that are not native English speakers. Hence they speak in understandable ways. DOes anyone know a drama or media student looking for a final year project to do? Ross - you have got me thinking. Community radio has always been part of our plan - but for community radio you need a license... (and our problems there are another story.) We want to speak to people - preferably in Yoruba. We have played with ideas of audio cassettes.We even considered getting a PA system to use on market days But all of these ideas were too extravagant in time and/or money for our meager resources - so the spoken word side of things has been on hold. Maybe its time to start thinking again. As you say - no need for computers - a much cheaper way to disseminate information... I haven't followed the threads on podcasting - but gather its an easily accessible way of generating and sharing the spoken word. It could be a good supplement to the other work of our InfoCentre... If any media students do think of following up Ross's idea please also consider the farm radio scripts that are available - I forget the source but perhaps other DDN members know - if not I could hunt around. I have no time to follow through on this at the moment for Ago-Are - but it's back bubbling in my mind again - so thanks Ross for bringing forward again the issue of the spoken word and alternative strategies for disseminating it. Pam Pamela McLean [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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.
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Snipped some stuff... John Hibbs wrote: Here's my caveat. The one area that I think needs improvement is how both groups can get more attention? My guess is that podcasting, satellite radio, community radio and the innovative spirits that are found in both groups are the main ingredients for wide publicity - and more money, accelerated results. Yet, both groups seem satisfied to reach a few hundred in their real time events and a few thousand in their electronic circulations. OK, I have only one problem with this, really: Podcasting. Note - that is not to say that I disagree with *mobcasting*. Podcasting, by itself, isn't something I deem very important as it is and as it is used. Aside from marketing hype... podcasting has limited value to the vast majority of users of the internet. Audio blogging is for people who have bandwidth. Now - *mobcasting*, which our own Andy Carvin came up with, is something I see quite useful in the context of many things. The mobcasting idea has suffered, I think, because of the hubris of *podcasting*. Mobcasting allows real time event *discussion*, and I know that Andy is thinking of ways to make it more useful in these regards. Satellite radio and community radio - definitely. I'd also like to toss in HAM radio, and that's something I'd like to see added into 'mobcasting' mainly because it fits inline with the poorly documented (my fault) concept of the Alert Retrieval Cache's next level; ARCTX. Once I get settled somewhere on the planet, I plan to get a HAM license to work on such things in a sensible manner. I wish they would give more thought on how to reach millions. The way to reach millions is actually already happening through the modern oracles: Search engines. Because of the great design of the DDN site, as well as the rapid evolution of it, DDN has become a model for reaching millions because it caters to the lowest common denominator on the internet. The user of search engines. Unfortunately, the recipe that will generate same has yet to be formulated -- much less baked. Ideas welcome. Many people are busy looking for 'higher tech' solutions. I've seen it in ideas for electronic meetings for WSIS, I see it in doing things that pay the bills (commercially related stuff), and I've seen it in resistant communities. In the Nuclear Propulsion program, we used to call it 'Nuking a problem' - where instead of finding the best solution, people found the most acronym-filled, largest amount of equations, and so on. Catering to the lowest common denominator is what this is really about. -- Taran Rampersad Presently in: Panama City, Panama [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.knowprose.com http://www.easylum.net http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Taran Criticize by creating. Michelangelo ___ 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.
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One of the things I find interesting about the history of podcasting is that it was developed, in part, as a way for people with limited bandwidth to download audio. Audio blogging isn't new by any means; lots of us have been doing it for years. The thing that made podcasting kick into high gear was software that could be set to automatically download audio blogs. That way, you could leave on your computer, go about your business, and have it download new audio content, perhaps over the course of the night. Of course, podcasting has become the hip phenom it is because of its association with iPods, but in reality, you could just think of it as a simple way to download big files in the middle of the night for use on your desktop. So in theory, podcasting _software_ could be a great tool for helping folks with limited bandwidth access large files when they're not actively using the computer. One of the problems is that many podcasts are becoming huge files, tens of megs in size, which are prohibitively large for low-bandwidth users. Additionally, there's a strong push to _professionalize_ podcasting. In other words, rather than having any Joe or Jane Shmo record a short audio blog with free, easy to use tools, more people are trying to imitate the Adam Currys of the world by investing in pre-amps, studio mics, sound absorption blankets, etc. While all of these bells and whistles make your podcasts sounds more professional, it also raises the bar qualitatively, as well as raising expections of the public at large that podcasts should sound like broadcast radio. It's an audio quality arms race in which only the best-sounding podcasters survive and the rest of us using our computer's internal mic get left behind, and that's de-democratizing the whole medium. That's why I'm glad Chris Lydon and his team are doing Open Source Radio - they're using mobcasting (in this context, public contributions via telephone) and are unabashedly happy to mix in content that's low-quality from a technical/broadcasting point of view. Even though the sound quality will leave a lot to be desired, it puts the power of podcasting back into the hands of the people ac Taran Rampersad wrote: Snipped some stuff... John Hibbs wrote: Here's my caveat. The one area that I think needs improvement is how both groups can get more attention? My guess is that podcasting, satellite radio, community radio and the innovative spirits that are found in both groups are the main ingredients for wide publicity - and more money, accelerated results. Yet, both groups seem satisfied to reach a few hundred in their real time events and a few thousand in their electronic circulations. OK, I have only one problem with this, really: Podcasting. Note - that is not to say that I disagree with *mobcasting*. Podcasting, by itself, isn't something I deem very important as it is and as it is used. Aside from marketing hype... podcasting has limited value to the vast majority of users of the internet. Audio blogging is for people who have bandwidth. -- --- 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 --- ___ 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.
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A few weeks ago Andy reported that enrollment had reached over 6,000 in the DDN list. However, in subsequent conversations we all agreed that far fewer than that were actually active in using the DDN and similar sites to learn, collaborate and bring solution to some of the problems that we write about on a regular basis. John mentioned the Web Heads in his 5/7 message. I was part of a 4-hour web heads meeting yesterday (Sunday, 5/8) where 39 people from from countries like Australia, China, Japan, Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Portugal, Canada, Belarus, and the USA did workshops and shared ideas that were intended to help kids be more successful in school and in jobs/careers. You can view the archive of these workshops at www.alado.net/econference and see the schedule of workshops planned for the rest of this week. You can also see that there is a face to face Tutor/Mentor Leadership Conference on Friday May 12 and 13, then another eConference, hosted by IUPUI on May 23. These conferences are intended to draw people together to learn, network, and collaborate on building better systems to help kids born in poverty be in jobs/careers by age 25. I congratulate the Web Heads and the Digital Workforce Society at City Colleges of Chicago for taking the lead to create and host this eConference in collaboration with the Tutor/Mentor Connection and encourage others on the DDN list to move from reading the messages, to participating in the workshop and collaborating where that makes sense. A friend of mine in Chicago, TV newsperson Merri Dee, gave me this quote many years ago. If it is to be, it is up to me. The Internet gives that term much more power. I hope that many of you will join us on line, or this weekend at the Chicago conference, which will be held at the Northwestern University Law School. The web site is www.tutormentorconference.bigstep.com. Registration is still open and scholarships and group rates are still available. Daniel F. Bassill Tutor/Mentor Connection 800 W. Huron Chicago, Il. 60622 ___ 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.
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At 10:25 AM -0400 5/9/05, Andy Carvin wrote: That's why I'm glad Chris Lydon and his team are doing Open Source Radio - they're using mobcasting (in this context, public contributions via telephone) and are unabashedly happy to mix in content that's low-quality from a technical/broadcasting point of view. Even though the sound quality will leave a lot to be desired, it puts the power of podcasting back into the hands of the people My suspicion, for our purposes, is that terrific two or three minute thoughtful pieces recorded over the telephone will find a lot more ears than will a lesser piece with all bells and whistles attached. What I visualize is a serious, year-long undertaking which I call Connecting the Dots. As I visualize it, there would be a continuous call for 2-3 minute Paul Harvey type audio messages. (Phil Shapiro came up with one yesterday about Apple's Tiger and the City of Philadelphia. I will let him tell you about that.) (Andy's mobcasting is wide open for a dozen Connect the Dots pieces) Move-On.org showed the way for this kind of development in the presidential campaign last year. What they did was ask their subscribers to create short videos for possible use on television. The response was overwhelming something like 1,700 submissions in a very short time period. Submissions could come by phone (and/or upload); voting by DDN subscribers could take place with use of all that sophisticated (free) polling stuff. The winning pieces could be announced by emails that were also sent to radio stations interested in intriguing pieces for insertions when times were dull. Winning stuff could also be put in text, and submitted to the print media. In many ways this is really fun stuff for people with the cast of mind who read the Digital Divide posts. I see the the goal of reaching larger audiences --- and with that cash contributions,as per the success of www.move-on.org. John Hibbs http://www.bfranklin.edu P.S. My favorite Çonnect the Dots involves the role of English language instructors, ICT, radio and how their work can reduce the Divide. (Blind copies are sent to the leaders of Webheads. They may wish to post?) ___ 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.
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I disagree still about mainly because 15 meg of MP3 is usually less than 64k of text. IT Conversations is a nice site, but it's also a way of enforcing the unavailability of content to the community. If IT Conversations, as an example, is such a brilliant site - why is the bar so high for entry? Sorry. I will lump podcasting into this. It's for high bandwidth people to talk to high bandwidth people, it doesn't permit discussion as much as mobcasting does, and it's also labeled after a piece of hardware that Apple is all too happy to handicap for the ability *to* podcast. My position is strong on this, I know. But podcasting by itself probably is only useful for the visually impaired, and I don't know that anyone does podcasting for that purpose yet. They should. But mobcasting is the superior thing to do in this scenario as well. Ross Gardler wrote: Taran Rampersad wrote: Snipped some stuff... John Hibbs wrote: Lets not lump all podcasting together and write it off. You say as it is used, but that seems to assume that there are no good uses of podcasting. I, like most people, find most blogs do not interest me. Similarly, the majority of podcasts don't interest me. However, just like blogs there are a few podcasts that I find extremely useful. A great example would be http://www.itconversations.com (only useful to the techies out there but it is a good example). This site carries the audio from a wide range of sources, such as radio shows and, most importantly, conference presentations. There are some wonderful presentations at various conferences that I cannot attend, these podcasts make the important key-notes and other presentations available to a wide range of people unable to be physically present at the conference. Audio blogging is for people who have bandwidth. Remember that bandwidth need not be a live Internet connection. I recently passed a Compact Flash containing a number of key presentations from IT Conversations to a colleague in rural Guyana. In his village he doesn't even have a computer, let alone an Internet connection. Yet that lack of bandwidth does not limit him with podcasting, he'll be using an MP3 player to listen to the podcasts and will be using what he learns from them to convince the village community that they need an IT Centre. I therefore agree with John, podcasting has the *potential* to reach many more than it currently does. Ross -- Taran Rampersad Presently in: Panama City, Panama [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.knowprose.com http://www.easylum.net http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Taran Criticize by creating. Michelangelo ___ 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.
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Dave Pentecost wrote: And the phrase lowest common denominator leads to an easy condescension to your readers. Good point. Perhaps lowest common accessibility denominator would be better. I was trying (and maybe failing!) to make the point that most people on the internet don't have as much bandwidth as we might take for granted. I'll try to think of a better way to write it. Math and English are always a funny mix. :-( Beyond that, there is the concept of the trimtab - a small unit that exerts great influence on the course of a large vessel. I think we can function in that way, and benefit the lowest common denominator without wasting effort in audience development. Err. Well, 'audience development' is sort of a weird phrase. But working on decreasing the Digital Divide could be construed as 'audience development', in that we are trying to increase the size of our audience. Are we working against ourselves? This list has an amazing reach and members who span a broad range of activities. Take care in your efforts to expand it. And if you do change course, I hope it will be in the direction of increased practical advice and tips on appropriate funding, hardware and software. In my opinion, that's what your greater audience needs, not more theoretical discussions. I agree... but I'll also offer that theoretical discussion has a place in the list as well. Funding issues, as an example, are theoretical (until someone gets it). Practical discussions on implementation are actually theoretical to the receiver until they implement them. And broader social and policy topics have a definitive effect on the future of the Digital Divide. So yes, it's a matter of balance. -- Taran Rampersad Presently in: Panama City, Panama [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.knowprose.com http://www.easylum.net http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Taran Criticize by creating. Michelangelo ___ 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.
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Taran Rampersad wrote: My position is strong on this, I know. But podcasting by itself probably is only useful for the visually impaired, and I don't know that anyone does podcasting for that purpose yet. They should. But mobcasting is the superior thing to do in this scenario as well. Actually, I've just been beta-testing a new service called talkr.com. The site just went public today. Talkr is an RSS newsreader with a twist - it literally reads out your favorite blogs as a computerized voice. When you add an RSS feed to its database, it generates an mp3 file of the computer voice reading out each blog entry contained within the RSS feed. For example, here's the mp3 of my recent blog entry about the attack on the Kabul cybercafe: http://talkr.com/audio/a/n/d/y/38039.mp3 You need to have a login to manage your own set of RSS feeds, but the mp3 files are publicly accessible, which means you could create a parallel podcast of your text blog, using the mp3 files created by talkr. That way, your audience could either read your blog or listen to it. But Talkr will be fee-based, so this free experimental account I have at the moment won't last long. From what the developer's told me, the site wasn't initially designed with the disabled community in mind, but they're now exploring ways of making this a service for people with visual impairments. 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 --- ___ 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.
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Ross Gardler wrote: Remember that bandwidth need not be a live Internet connection. I recently passed a Compact Flash containing a number of key presentations from IT Conversations to a colleague in rural Guyana. In his village he doesn't even have a computer, let alone an Internet connection. Yet that lack of bandwidth does not limit him with podcasting, he'll be using an MP3 player to listen to the podcasts and will be using what he learns from them to convince the village community that they need an IT Centre. Ross Would this information be appropriate to share with the community in Ago-Are - to give them a clearer vision of the potential of their InfoCentre? They do have computers (not very high spec but some do include sound). Could the info go to them on a CD?. What are the accents like? How fast do the contributors speak? i.e. How well must my Ago-Are people understand English to make sense of it? (The people I have in mind to listen can understand my English - but not if I speak too fast - i.e my usual rate...). By the way does this renewed activity mean that the floods have gone down and life is getting a little easier there in Guyana now - I hope so.. Pam Pamela McLean [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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.
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I use the commericial product, Text Aloud MP3 to convert text that I can cut and paste into MP3 files. It sure saves on paper for those articles I should read but don't need to waste trees with. Also, I had an open source prototype built for webcasting public meeting audio with webcam images for the UK Local E-democracy National Project. Would anyone like to help us test it more widely? Drop me a note: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Steven Clift Steven Clift - http://publicus.net - Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Join DoWire: http://dowire.org E-Democracy: http://e-democracy.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.
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At 9:23 PM -0700 5/7/05, Aiden Yeh wrote: Vance Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Group cohesion is when as a result of postings on a thread the group feels more like it's heading in a common and positive direction. I belong to far too many lists, the majority of which are in the education arena. The two best, by far, are Webheads http://www.webheads.info and The Digital Divide Network http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org Of course I am biased because of my strongly held belief that English language instructors and those inside their classrooms are at the pointy edge of the shovels which can best reduce the Divide. Nowhere is this belief better reinforced than by the many dozens of very smart Webheads (like Aiden Yeh) who use affordable technology in ways that are often completely uncommon with others in their part of the world. My hat's off to them. It's also off with equal vigor to brilliant subscribers to DDN who are as varied as the one hundred or so countries from which they come. At first glance, the two groups have entirely different missions. But do they? Here's my caveat. The one area that I think needs improvement is how both groups can get more attention? My guess is that podcasting, satellite radio, community radio and the innovative spirits that are found in both groups are the main ingredients for wide publicity - and more money, accelerated results. Yet, both groups seem satisfied to reach a few hundred in their real time events and a few thousand in their electronic circulations. I wish they would give more thought on how to reach millions. Unfortunately, the recipe that will generate same has yet to be formulated -- much less baked. Ideas welcome. John Hibbs http://www.bfranklin.edu/johnhibbs ___ 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.
