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 acces
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
at most local libraries and many coffee houses that were scattered
before us on our journey. WalMart now sells a very low cost computer and
also sells di
ork discussion group
Subject: Re: [DDN] RSS: The Next ICT Literacy Challenge?
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 intern
At 3:25 AM -0500 1/23/05, Stephen Snow wrote:
.
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 t
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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 w
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
bee
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
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 a
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Taran Rampersad wrote:
(snip) What a Content Management System allows you to do is file the
same content under different names without having to store it more than
once, which is exactly what I need on my machine! LOL. I think quite a
few people could use such a system.Now you have me wondering
In a message dated 1/23/05 7:42:17 PM Central Standard Time,
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> Pamela McLean wrote:
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> >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).
Pam:
Your questions appe
I don't see many of them jumping to learn RSS.
Why would anybody "learn RSS" .. I don't know TCP/IP but it doesn't
prevent me from using the products of it. So long as SOMEBODY knows it
and can keep the technology alive, why would EVERYBODY need to know it?
I think you're misunderstanding John
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 *m
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 commu
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 *content* (currently
stored
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 wh
I think we're missing two critical elements...
See below
From: John Hibbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[ snip ]
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 an
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>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, onl
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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> At 6:54 PM -0800 1/21/05, Steve Eskow wrote:
> >John Hibbs's message below seems to challenge the conventional wisdom
which
> &
Eskow
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In a message dated 1/22/05 11:52:31 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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> They are cold - no, not cold - FRIGID! - to blogging, underscored by
> antagonism - yes that is the correct word - to writing assignments
> for old school professors who believe some aspect of their grade is
> determined by g
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 u
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 i
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 h
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, aba
I think we get so focused on [and enamored with] the technology tricks
that we lose sight of the fact the people on the wrong side of the
divide don't have the toys we have. Basic email and web-access bring the
bulk of the social and economic benefits of being "connected". All this
other stuff
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
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 h
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Andy Carvin cites Dan Gillmor's concern for the difficulties of creating an
informed public:
> Dan Gillmor at the Berkman blogger confab today just made the comment
> that the public will have to learn to do "a little more work" if they
> want to stay informed. "It's not just going to show up on t
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