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
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I agree. Although aren't the cable sports and news channels, the
touch-down by touch-down mobile updates and knowing where tonights party
is just another kind of feed? Just as RSS (and blogs and the internet
generally) specialises people's
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I am enjoying this thread...quick thoughts, also take into account how
the internet and services provide for the interpersonal sharing and
viral sharing of content on the internet. For example, someone who is
totally tuned into sports will still have a chat client or two
running, and this leaves
Since using computers is normal activity for today's youth, they are
accustomed to using computers. Therefore, when I engage my classes in
computer-aided discussion, younger students accomplish it much more quickly.
Oh, that's
not to say older students can't do it or don't like it; I've
This thread puzzles me from a number of perspectives. First, RSS while a
powerful aggregating search tool is still mapping brick space into click
space, the same as what we are currently doing with e-learning using the
standard Learning Management Systems and their variances. It has, as has
At 3:25 AM -0500 1/23/05, Stephen Snow wrote:
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That is how this current information tool development feels to me: lots of
glitter and not much substance. Lots of information, but not much actual
communication.
What Stephen Snow writes about, quite eloquently, and as others have
touched upon, is
Historically, the older readers are the more likely they are to read a
newspaper. Certainly, this won't extend extensively to online journals, but
online news readers undoubtedly will be older. And it's quite true that
college-age students read little news, online or off.
Jim Flick
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Parents want their children to learn skills that will help them move
ahead and achieve (certainly a sliding scale definition) while building an
understanding of the world we live in so they can safely navigate the
I think we're missing two critical elements...
See below
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I share Steve Eskow's worries about a society not underpinned with people
who have good reading and writing skills; one that is already chilly to the
merits of civic responsibility
a. reading and
This email covers two things.
First, many thanks to everyone who has sent explanations of RSS. I
haven't digested all the information yet - but from a quick read through
all that has been sent I'm feeling much less ignorant, and very glad
that I did ask the question.
Second , a response to
Pam
A content management system usually refers to a package of software
that helps you manage a website, not your own computer files. Most
blogging software (Blogger, Movable Type, TypePad) can be called CMS,
as can the CivicSpace package, which I am currently learning for a
couple of online
Pamela McLean wrote:
Another very basic question from Pam
Stephen Snow wrote:
(snip) (but I have found a use for the web and for a content
management system).
Content management system?
Does that do what it sounds as if it might do?
Is it a *system* that would help me to *manage* the
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At 11:40 AM -0800 1/21/05, Steve Eskow wrote:
His first chapter
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Andy Carvin cites Dan Gillmor's concern for the difficulties
At 6:54 PM -0800 1/21/05, Steve Eskow wrote:
John Hibbs's message below seems to challenge the conventional wisdom which
holds that the young are ready for the digital revolution while their
elders resist it.
It's not that the college students I know well resist technology.
Universally, they have
John Hibbs wrote:
At 5:09 AM -0500 1/22/05, Stephen Snow wrote:
It is a double-edged sword. Where, on the one edge, a free society is
based
on the ability to have unfettered access to information of our
choosing, on
the other edge, a free society's longevity is linked to common
Why do I think it's a pipe dream that the general public will do a
little more work to stay informed?
Isn't this in the opposite direction of where the world has been
going? Why did the Vatican change from delivery of the mass from
Latin into the vernacular? Why did colleges, long ago,
At 11:40 AM -0800 1/21/05, Steve Eskow wrote:
His first chapter is called The Daily Me, and deals with ever increasing
ability of the new communication technologies to allow their users to
personalize what they receive, tailor what comes to them so that they only
hear and see what they want to
Let me take this discussion in a slightly different direction. The
conversation on narrowcasting and student apathy to information other
opinions has been very interesting (and I may try to fit it into my own
blog on the Intangible Economy - www.intangibleeconomy.org)
But, to what extent is
At 5:09 AM -0500 1/22/05, Stephen Snow wrote:
It is a double-edged sword. Where, on the one edge, a free society is based
on the ability to have unfettered access to information of our choosing, on
the other edge, a free society's longevity is linked to common experiences,
common goals and common
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Steve,
You touch on a central downside to the Internet
Subject: Re: [DDN] RSS: The Next ICT Literacy Challenge?
At 6:54 PM -0800 1/21/05, Steve Eskow wrote:
John Hibbs's message below seems to challenge the conventional wisdom
which
holds that the young are ready for the digital revolution while their
elders resist it.
It's not that the college
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