Amy - I appreciate your right to comment, but I disagree. I see Phil's comment as a good topic of conversation to pass on an opportunity to get some resources and do some good. Simply because it is US-centric and corporate does not define it as bad. I don't see this as an advertisement at all, and it would be hard to dismiss the importance of Amazon and similar businesses in reshaping how we use technology and distribute information -- even in the old linear and paper format of books.
Thanks Phil for the idea, and thanks Amy for your opinion. Brenda J. Trainor Frontier Trail, Inc. Box 935 Monrovia, CA 91017 323.229.2397 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of A. K. Mahan Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 4:21 PM To: Phil Shapiro; The Digital Divide Network discussiongroup Subject: Re: [DDN] a tip about the amazon.com wish list spree Dear Phil, It is weird and disappointing that you would use DDN space to provide advertisement time to Amazon.com - especially in support of their intrusive and extensive information collecting systems. According to the Contest Rules only people living in the US are eligible to win. Thus, the windfall is unlikely to contribute to the reduction of any digital or access to resources divides. best - Amy. -- Amy Mahan Montevideo, Uruguay www.lirne.net www.regulateonline.org > > hi digital divide network people - > > in honor of their 10th anniversary, amazon.com is having a wish > list > spree. two people will have everything on their amazon.com wish list > (up to $5,000) sent to them. 10 people will have up to $1,000 of > items sent to them. 10 people will receive amazon.com gift > certificates of $500. > > to enter this contest you need to create a new amazon.com wish > list > (even if you already have one. it's possible to have multiple > amazon.com wish lists.) > > in addition to the 200 or so books i currently have on my > amazon.com wish list, i threw in a dual processor G5 mac and a new > powerbook onto the newly created wish list i made this morning. > > admittedly, amazon.com does have a large number of customers. > > only a small number of these customers know or care about > creating a wish list. this "shopping spree" contest is open > from july 7 to july 16. i would not expect a large number of > people will be entering this contest. > even me, as a geek, found it confusing that i needed to create a new > wish list to enter the contest. > > here is hoping that we'll have one or more people from the > DDN > community as one of the 22 winners. > > - phil > > -- > Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.his.com/pshapiro/ (personal) > http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/pshapiro (blog) > http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro (technology access work) > http://mytvstation.blogspot.com/ (video and rich media) > > "There's just so much more creativity and genius out there than > our media currently reflect." FCC Commissioner Michael Copps > _______________________________________________ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > [email protected] > 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. > > _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] 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. _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] 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.
