[DDN] Wired article on ICT and homeless people

2006-06-26 Thread Bill McIver
(cross posting) Laptops Give Hope to the Homeless By Jacob Ogles| Also by this reporter 02:00 AM Jun, 22, 2006 FILLMORE, California -- Happy Ivy doesn't have a bathroom or a kitchen in the bus he calls home. He does, however, have a video-editing station. More

RE: [DDN] Australia to give away porn-filtering software to allfamilies

2006-06-26 Thread Don Cameron
Salman Ansari writes: One set of software which works amazingly in LAN and individual home environments are Screen Shield and iShield from Guardware. Thank you Salman - My own experience is predominantly with WebSense which I also find to be a very effective filter. A Google tells me that

Re: [DDN] podcasts from the anytime, anywhere learning summit

2006-06-26 Thread Saul Rockman
Andy, I want to thank you for recording the sessions. I had to leave early and missed some. I do believe that many of the presentations will be available at the aalf.org site over the coming weeks and, while not as recordings, at least the .ppts will be accessible. I know mine will. Saul On

[DDN] [Net-Gold] Browser Links

2006-06-26 Thread David P. Dillard
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 22:41:10 - From: Sean Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Net-Gold] Browser Links Browser Archive http://browsers.evolt.org/ D?j? vu http://www.dejavu.org/ Bookmarklets http://www.bookmarklets.com/ Favelets

[DDN] telecentre for the blind in Uruguay

2006-06-26 Thread J Cravens
(please note that the person posting this to the Digital Divide Network has no further information about this project) UNESCO supported telecentre for the blind opened in Uruguay The Juan Antonio Lavalleja Public Library of Minas, the capital of the department of Lavalleja in Uruguay, hosts

[DDN] URGENT Net Neutrality Action TODAY: Please send/fax these materials

2006-06-26 Thread Seth Johnson
Please send the following materials on net neutrality TODAY to Senators on the Commerce and Judiciary Committees. Send me a note if you'd like rich text files of these materials. Commerce resumes markup on the Stevens Bill tomorrow morning. We are working to make sure that language that

[DDN] Getting to know Wikipedia

2006-06-26 Thread Andy Carvin
Hi everyone, I've just written an intro to Wikipedia on my learning.now blog. It's the first in a series of posts on the role of Wikipedia in education. http://www.pbs.org/learningnow permalink: http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/learning.now/2006/06/getting_to_know_wikipedia_1.html I'm