Re: [DDN] One Laptop Per Child - possible functional prototype photos

[Dave Pentecost]

I finally saw a note on the wireless LAN technology they are using. It
is (no surprise, I guess) the MIT RoofNet mesh system.

More at Daily Wireless:

http://www.dailywireless.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5467

Best
Dave

On 5/26/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Taran,

While I agree that there _seems_ to be a pointing device under the
keyboard, everyone was using an external mouse in the photos.  That leads
me to believe that an external mouse is still required.

Wayan


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> - it might require an external mouse
>
Maybe not...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pete/151943540/in/set-72057594143224765/

Seems like a pointing device below that keyboard that just happens to be
the same color.

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Correction Re: [DDN] comparison of video blogging compression techniques

[Dave Pentecost]

Hi Andy

Others may have caught this. But you got my attention when your post
listed the extreme compression example as 292 bits. Wow! Actually, I
show 288 kB once I downloaded it.

Good work!

Dave

On 4/25/06, Andy Carvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> One of my video blog viewers asked me for an explanation of various
> quicktime compression techniques I use to make my online videos smaller
> for different audiences. I've just published my response:
>
> http://www.andycarvin.com/archives/2006/04/andys_video_blogging.html
>
> In this demonstration, I start with a 10 megabyte video shot in avi
> format, 30 frames per second, 640x480 pixels, 16 bit stereo. I then
> produced seven compressed versions of it, including ones that utilize
> varying frame rates, screen sizes, compression codecs, and audio
> compression.  The most compressed version I created is 97% smaller than
> the original avi video, and is potentially quite suitable for video
> blogging in low-bandwidth situations around the world. Some examples:
>
> Original uncompressed video (10 megs):
> http://www.andycarvin.com/video/demo-nocompression.avi
>
> Significant compression (1.8 megs, 82% reduction):
> http://www.andycarvin.com/video/demo-3ivx.mov
>
> Extreme compression (292 bits, 97% reduction):
> http://www.andycarvin.com/video/demo-3ivx8bit160.mov
>
> Here's a chart featuring all of the videos and their settings:
>
> http://www.andycarvin.com/compressiontable.html
>
> Anyway, I hope this is useful for those of you exploring the world of
> video blogging.
>
> thanks,
> andy
>
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Re: [DDN] Should Students be Premitted to Use the Internet as a Resource for Research Assignments?

[Dave Pentecost]

Andy

One measure of the internet's importance in research is the embrace of
open source science tools by young researchers for publishing their
results. They still receive peer review but the results are not
restricted by copyright or proprietary publishers.

An example close to home. Your mention of PLoS triggered my proud
father response. My son Mickey, who is in grad school at Stanford,
just published his first research article in PLoS. I'm happy for the
obvious reasons, but also pleased that he went the open source route
with the paper.

Here's my post on the paper, with links to the report and information
about the image Mick created for it.

http://www.gomaya.com/glyph/archives/001617.html

Best
Dave

On 2/15/06, Andy Carvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's indeed very odd that someone would want to prohibit online research
> given the number of excellent onlineresearch databases available.
> Meanwhile, the growing number of online research journals are a goldmine
> of content. Journals like On the Horizon and First Monday helped pioneer
> the movement, and Public Library of Science (PLoS.org) is taking it to a
> new level -andy
>
> David P. Dillard wrote:
> > Of possible interest to the members of this group.
> >
> >
> > From: "David P. Dillard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Wed Feb 15, 2006  5:46 am
> > Subject: OPINION : EDUCATION: INTERNET: ISSUES: Should Students be
> > Premitted to Use the Internet as a Resource for Research Assignments?
> > 
> >
> >
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > David Dillard
> > Temple University
> > (215) 204 - 4584
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Net-Gold
> > 
> > 
> > Temple University Listserv Net-Gold Archives
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Re: [DDN] Launched: Google Earth for the Mac

[Dave Pentecost]

To Andy and all DDN folks

One great feature of Google Earth, for Mac users who haven't looked
into it yet, is the Google Earth Community. Users can share placemarks
and tours that get incorporated into the general Google Earth
database.

Here's my post about it, with a tour of my corner of the globe, the
Usumacinta River in Chiapas, Mexico, the superhighway of the ancient
Maya world:

http://www.gomaya.com/glyph/archives/001591.html

The support section of the community forums is here:

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php/Cat/0/C/50

Also note that in order to share placemarks and tours, you need to
register (a gmail account is sufficient) and follow the FAQ available
on the above page, or work through the manual which is available in
the application under Help. For some reason the "Share with Google
Earth Community" feature in the File menu did nothing for me.

Besides the requirement of OS 10.4, there are some graphic chip
requirements that folks should check out in this FAQ:

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php?Number=68845

If anyone has questions I'll be glad to try and answer them. I've been
playing with the "leaked" Mac pre-beta for a few weeks. I am
absolutely stunned at the resource Google has provided.

Best
Dave



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> Hi everyone,
>
> Google officially unveiled Google Earth for the Mac yesterday. You can
> download it here:
>
> http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html
>
> To run it you'll need the latest operating system - Mac OSX 10.4. If you
> try to upload it on OSX 10.3, you'll get a message saying they're still
> working on a 10.3 version. Looks like I finally found the excuse to
> upgrade. :-)
>
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[DDN] Podcast directory redux

[Dave Pentecost]

Hello folks

People interested in the possibility of using OPML to create a podcast
directory, or any other categorized list on a website, may want to
take a look at the OPML Renderer Wordpress plugin created by Dan
MacTough.

http://www.yabfog.com/wp/opml-renderer/

It works in any Wordpress weblog and thus has the advantage that it
requires no special hosting or OPML server. It's just another (great)
plugin for Wordpress.

In Dan's words: "OPML Renderer renders valid OPML from any source as
an expandable/collapsible list."

On his page you can see it used for a categorized reading list. It
could just as easily be a list of websites by geographical area, or a
podcast directory by topic, or a conventional blogroll. It occurred to
me that it could also be a directory to all the pages on the site,
allowing you to call up a page with more information. In a podcast
directory that could be useful to supply both the webpage and the
podcast feed, as well as other information and a discussion of the
site in comments.

A free OPML editor can be found here:

http://support.opml.org/

A commercial outline editor such as OmniOutliner ($39.95) can also be
used to create the OPML file:

http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnioutliner/content.html

Wordpress is a free (you can pay for hosting if you need it), open
source blogging tool, famous for its "5 minute install" :

http://wordpress.com/

Write me with questions and I'll try to answer them. But I've found
the best way to learn is to start playing with the tools and make sure
to read comments from users. This is all still evolving. But it could
be useful.

Best
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[DDN] Maya Mural video

[Dave Pentecost]

Andy and DDN folks

For those who are interested, I've posted a short edited video from my
work with the San Bartolo archaeology team in 2004.

http://www.gomaya.com/glyph/archives/001553.html#001553

I couldn't really release it until National Geographic made the
announcement yesterday. I was not working under contract with them but
they control release on their funded projects. It collapses 5 weeks
into 4 minutes, and was edited and scored (Garageband) in the jungle
of Guatemala.

It has some videoblog characteristics (I introduce it speaking to the
camera) but the delay may disqualify it. It may be more of an
ethnographic music video about the strange tribe of archaeologists.

Whatever. Enjoy.

Best
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Re: [DDN] WiMax for last mile

[Dave Pentecost]

Matt

Thanks for the info. What is your take on the line-of-sight issues?
With little direct experience so far, I am swayed by claims that WiMax
does not have the same requirements for LOS - I will be dealing with
buildings behind buildings.

Thanks
Dave

On 12/12/05, Matt Larsen - Lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> PacWireless (http://www.pacwireless.com)  and Tranzeo
> (http://www.tranzeo.com) both have an excellent assortment of good
> low-cost antennas.  I use 2' and 3' dishes from both places for 10 to 60
> mile links in the 5Ghz range.  They also have good grid antennas for use
> in 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz.
>
> Another good way to look for good links is to use the RadioMobile
> software (I don't have the address but you can Google for it).  It will
> tell you whether the links will work or not and what kind of fade margin
> to expect.  Even off the shelf 802.11a and 802.11b gear will go up to 75
> miles in the right conditions.  There are many wireless broadband
> providers using this to bypass telephone companies everyday.
>
> For more information, check out my blog at http://www.thelar.com/ - I
> have a lot more detailed information on how a lot of this stuff works on
> there.
>
> Matt Larsen
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Dave Pentecost wrote:
>
> >Matt
> >
> >I'm working on an urban wireless project, and your post is good
> >encouragement and information.
> >
> >Star OS is a good software tip. How about hardware? Antennas are
> >obviously key to long-distance systems. Do you have any tips based on
> >your experience?
> >
> >Thanks
> >Dave
> >
> >On 12/11/05, Matt Larsen - Lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Forget WiMax and look at using one of the other existing solutions out
> >>there that are either proprietary or WiFi based.
> >>
> >>We have done WiFi based links at distances of up to 70 miles on point to
> >>point links and up to 25 miles on point to multipoint links.  There are
> >>other nice solutions out there as well.  I worked with volunteer groups
> >>in Louisiana after Katrina and we were able to put up broadband networks
> >>quickly and effectively using WiFi and Trango radios
> >>(http://www.trangobroadband.com) way before the government officials and
> >>other groups using WiMax gear.
> >>
> >>One good piece of software to enable you to do these things is called
> >>StarOS - http://www.star-os.com/ - this software will let you take a
> >>generic PC and wireless card and turn it into a routing access point and
> >>backhaul all in one.  We use this setup to deliver Internet to hundreds
> >>of customers in rural Eastern Wyoming and Western Nebraska.
> >>
> >>Good luck!
> >>
> >>Matt Larsen
> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>
> >>J L wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>Good day to all,
> >>>I am a Peace Corps volunteer serving in the Andes of Peru. I am
> >>>looking into the possibility of using WiMax to connect a nearby
> >>>community. I am interested in knowing if it is feasible with the
> >>>standards still be worked out, and what the standard upfront cost
> >>>are.  I am also interested in any other ideas to make a connectioin.
> >>>I appreciate your advice.
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Re: [DDN] WiMax for last mile

[Dave Pentecost]

Matt

I'm working on an urban wireless project, and your post is good
encouragement and information.

Star OS is a good software tip. How about hardware? Antennas are
obviously key to long-distance systems. Do you have any tips based on
your experience?

Thanks
Dave

On 12/11/05, Matt Larsen - Lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Forget WiMax and look at using one of the other existing solutions out
> there that are either proprietary or WiFi based.
>
> We have done WiFi based links at distances of up to 70 miles on point to
> point links and up to 25 miles on point to multipoint links.  There are
> other nice solutions out there as well.  I worked with volunteer groups
> in Louisiana after Katrina and we were able to put up broadband networks
> quickly and effectively using WiFi and Trango radios
> (http://www.trangobroadband.com) way before the government officials and
> other groups using WiMax gear.
>
> One good piece of software to enable you to do these things is called
> StarOS - http://www.star-os.com/ - this software will let you take a
> generic PC and wireless card and turn it into a routing access point and
> backhaul all in one.  We use this setup to deliver Internet to hundreds
> of customers in rural Eastern Wyoming and Western Nebraska.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Matt Larsen
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> J L wrote:
>
> > Good day to all,
> > I am a Peace Corps volunteer serving in the Andes of Peru. I am
> > looking into the possibility of using WiMax to connect a nearby
> > community. I am interested in knowing if it is feasible with the
> > standards still be worked out, and what the standard upfront cost
> > are.  I am also interested in any other ideas to make a connectioin.
> > I appreciate your advice.
> > James Tyler Leist
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: [DDN] Fwd: [GKD] Microsoft Donations: Roses with Thorns?

[Dave Pentecost]

Yes there is a huge difference, which is the point of most
non-Microsoft technological initiatives in this area - the $100 laptop
is open source. It's also the reason that MIT turned down Apple's
offer to provide their OS. I'm sure others on this list are writing
right now with the same comment.

And no, the $100 laptop debate does not belong in this thread, beyond
that distinction.

Thanks
Dave

On 12/9/05, Cindy Lemcke-Hoong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Moral of the story:
>
>   Is there any difference between Microsoft vs the famous 100$ lap-top?
>
>   One should ask the same question on that 100 million lap-top order: who  
> gets to manufacture them? who gets pay at the MIT lab, where are the  
> researchers and technical experts located?? Who's citizen actually  benefit 
> from all these?
>
>   There are more stories of 'strings' . But if I do list them, I am sure  
> someone would tell me they do not belong to this discussions ...
>
>   Cindy
>   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Michael Maranda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  That is an unfortunate story.  
> But it raises a general question of how we
> relate to technology and to funders and donors who are in our sector.  We
> want resources to do what we think is needed in our commnities or in policy
> work related to technology.  We need the courage to accept resources that
> fit our colleective values.  Even if a particular gift comes to one of us
> without such strings attached, what does it say when we accept resources
> from entities that practice their "philanthropy" in this manner?
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kris Dev
> Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 10:33 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [DDN] Fwd: [GKD] Microsoft Donations: Roses with Thorns?
>
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Augusta Molnar < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Dec 8, 2005 6:26 AM
> Subject: [GKD] Microsoft Donations: Roses with Thorns?
> To: gkd@milhouse.edc.org
>
> Dear GKD Members,
>
> I am writing from Oaxaca, Mexico where I am visiting communities in the
> highlands. They have been beneficiaries of a very cool project financed in
> part by the Gates foundation to install a wireless connection and a set of
> computers for the schools. We are working on a network in the Latin America
> region for communities for which we use by preference FireFox as our
> browser. We suggested they try this browser as Explorer was causing
> problems, and discovered to our surprise that the Gates foundation "gift"
> comes with tags.
>
> The computer network does not allow any of the users of the donated
> computers to install any software not owned by Microsoft, even any open
> source software. The network within which the computers reside will not
> allow any individual computers to download software to install, ostensibly
> to prevent viruses and incompatible software from jeopardizing the Microsoft
> system.
>
> These are computers installed for educational purposes in a number of
> telecenters in the public libraries in Mexico for all the young students
> preparing for a global world. These computers are therefore their only
> affordable access to the Internet and to learning about computers and
> programs. A significant number of them will leave this town to work at least
> part of their life elsewhere in Mexico or in the U.S. Their work and career
> opportunities will depend upon their skills and preparedness.
>
> I am reminded of my youth, working in the vicinity of USAID programs which
> only purchased American-made cars shipped to remote corners of Asia for
> irrigation projects, etc., because the tied money only allowed US bids.
> (Ever try to blow up a pneumatic truck tire with a bicycle pump in a small
> town in Asia? )
>
> Is this standard Gates foundation policies?? Is this type of tag
> allowed??
>
> Interested to hear from those of you who are more knowledgeable on this
> point.
>
>
> Augusta Molnar
> Director, Community and Markets Program
> Forest Trends
> 1050 Potomac Street NW
> Washington, D.C. 20007
> Phone: 202 298-3006
> Fax: 202 298-3014
> www.forest-trends.org
>
>
>
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Re: [DDN] Don't waste time on trivialities

[Dave Pentecost]

Dr. Linda D. Misek-Falkoff, Kris and others

Thank you for this thread. Please let us know how we can get more
information on the "Respectful Interfaces" program. I work in IT,
media and appropriate technologies in New York City (Lower Eastside
Girls Club) and Chiapas, Mexico.

Best
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Re: [DDN] $100 laptop and seeds

[Dave Pentecost]

And the seeds gain power as they create more seeds. Which is also
inherent in the mesh capabilities, where I have to take issue with
Taran's comment from another thread:

"OK. I hate to be the myth-slayer here, and I was honestly hoping that
someone else would do it, but laptops with wireless cards - even Windows
XP - can do this. In fact, this was one of the features that Apple
marketers were shouting about a couple of years ago with the confusingly
named 'Airport', and so forth. The mesh network has been done and
continues to be done without Negroponte."

No Taran, the ad hoc networks of most WiFi (Apple and XP) are very
different from true mesh. One computer can share it, but the ones
receiving it cannot then share it further (and so on - there are some
modes in some basestations that allow 2 steps of sharing). And no one
has provided a complete mesh node computer (with keyboard, display,
and user software) for $100. Whether you like it or not, this is a
breakthrough.

Now I have a suggestion. Can we stop the arguing over whether this is
or isn't the perfect solution to the world's problems, and start
building the self guided learning software that will run on this or
some other upcoming open source machine? Let's take the brainpower and
bandwidth being used to prove our points and turn it to raising
someone else up.

End of my mild rant...

Best
Dave


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> I'm not weighing in on the commercial and philosophical problematic of
> the $100 laptop offered by MIT, but I liked Terry King's analogy about
> seeds. I've been increasingly thinking about the upcoming Worlds Touch
> trip as a trip to sow seeds. The mythology of Johnny Appleseed, who
> walked across the midwest with a bag of seeds and a pot on his head,
> intrigues me.
>
> Agribusiness can sow seeds far more efficiently than ol' Johnny did,
> but it won't be talking to the folks by the side of the road.
>
> Patricia Perkins
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Re: RE : [DDN] Re: $100 laptop

[Dave Pentecost]

I think they mean 32 mb of flash memory (nonvolatile) as in your usb jumpdrives.

On 11/21/05, Adite Chatterjee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sure. But are companies really interested in creating audiovisual animations
> for the limited literate population, which is not really a very "lucrative"
> target market. Even if they are being done, isn't television a better medium
> to target this audience? There is less of a learning curve involved, which
> makes it more "user-friendly" than a computer.
>
> Adite
>
> On 11/21/05, Andy Carvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > How about because Flash can be used to create audiovisual animations for
> > limited literate populations?
> >
> > --
> > ---
> > Andy Carvin
> > Program Director
> > EDC Center for Media & Community
> > acarvin @ edc . org
> > http://www.digitaldivide.net
> > Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com
> > ---
> >
> > 
> >
> > De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] de la part de Adite Chatterjee
> > Date: dim. 11/20/2005 11:36
> > À: The Digital Divide Network discussion group
> > Objet : Re: [DDN] Re: $100 laptop
> >
> >
> >
> > "Simputer has some good ideas, but only 32M of Flash. No room for
> > textbooks... No Keyboard."
> >
> >
> > In response to the above comment, just one tiny observation: pray, WHY
> > would
> > an illiterate person sitting in remote Rajasthan in India- where
> > electricity, water, housing, food is a problem, need FLASH? Despite being
> > a
> > savvy computer user with a privileged educational/income background, i can
> > do without it!
> >
> > Adite
> >
> >
> >
> > On 11/21/05, Terry King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > At 12:00 PM 11/20/2005 -0500, you wrote:
> > > >I suppose by buying a US$100 laptop an illiterate becomes literate and
> > > >exploring the Internet fulfills the curriculum of all thirty plus
> > > students
> > > >in each class.!!
> > > >I am of course, not under- valuing the phenomenal wealth of knowledge
> > > >accessible by the same laptop but...
> > > >The whole concept of the Simputer is that it was developed within the
> > > >context of a 'developing' country and its design took account of the
> > > >inherent priorities and encouraging/utilizing local talent. We
> > [including
> > > >the UN] should, I believe, be orienting all our energies -- and funds
> > to
> > > >encouraging that area of development in developing countries.
> > >
> > > A few thoughts:
> > >
> > > - MIT is not asking the UN or others for donations, that I heard, for
> > the
> > > laptops themselves. Countries would buy them at the $100 figure in large
> > > quantities.
> > >
> > > - The MIT design will be mainly sold as a TEXTBOOK. It has 1 Gb Flash
> > and
> > > will have localized
> > > language texts and resources preloaded. The Internet expands the
> > > offerings. The mesh network provides local collaboration between
> > students
> > > and teachers at the village level.
> > >
> > > - Simputer has some good ideas, but only 32M of Flash. No room for
> > > textbooks... No Keyboard.
> > >
> > > I ran a browser and word processor on the Beta.. they were pretty darn
> > > fast
> > > on the 1/2 Ghz processor..
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards, Terry King ...On The Mediterranean in Carthage, Tunisia
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Re: [DDN] Returned mail I didn't send - advice needed

[Dave Pentecost]

There is a clue at the bottom of your email:

> Internal Virus Database is out-of-date.
> Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.
> Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.25/102 - Release Date: 09/14/2005

Is that generated by your computer or your ISP?

There are exploits that use your email address book to propagate
emails that appear to come from you. But this sounds like the
addressees are not real or at least are not in your address book. The
bad guys *are* finding a way to use your email address as the sender.
They could even be using your computer to send them, but I'm guessing
there are other ways.

I've seen this before with other folks, but being a Mac user I haven't
had to worry about it so I'm a little vague on what can be done.
Switch to a Mac? Google the problem? I'll see what I can find out.

Good luck
Dave

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> Hi listers,
> I've noticed a very recent exponential increase in the amount of
> returned mail I've been receiving...mail that I personally have not
> sent. Every day I receive 20 or more messages about returned or
> undeliverable mail, indicating recipients who seem pretty clearly to
> have been generated by some random addresser bot that simply creates
> addresses according to some algorithm.
> My question is, what can I do about this? Is there any way to stop the
> incoming flow? I imagine I could set my incoming filters, but if there's
> somehow I can stop someone from using my email address to send messages,
> that would be ideal?
> Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
> Thank you.
> Jim Lerman
>
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[DDN] Guatemala - Hospitalito Atitlan Dispatches

[Dave Pentecost]

The scale of disaster in Guatemala from the recent hurricane is
greater than previously thought.

http://www.puebloapueblo.org/

In this dispatch from Hospitalito Atitlan, there are personal reports
from the village of Panabaj, where 1,400 villagers were killed in one
mudslide.

This is the heart of the ancestral Maya homeland. These people are now
isolated, homeless and hungry.

Please spread the word and a plea for help. There is information on
this site about donations, and a call for medical supplies and
materials that can be hand-carried by travelers to the region. Let me
know what you can do and I will help to coordinate getting aid there.

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[DDN] Feedback: Andy's ITP presentation and the Lower Eastside Girls Club

[Dave Pentecost]

Hi all

Just a followup on Andy's email about his appearance at NYU's
Interactive Telecommunications Program.

We have a team of interns from ITP who are helping us plan our new
facility for the Lower Eastside Girls Club - a green, smart building
that will anchor a community network and a free wireless ISP. They are
also working with our girls in podcasting and STEM programs.

I was not able to attend Andy's talk (thanks for the podcast, Andy!)
but our interns came out of the meeting excited, inspired and ready to
do what they can to bridge the divide in our own community.

Thanks to Andy and everyone on this list for continued inspiration. I
find myself forwarding your comments to our development team and all
of the interns.

Now I have to finish building the podcasting studio in our current
offices. I'll keep you posted on our progress.

Best
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Re: [DDN] Business Week story on Digital Divide

[Dave Pentecost]

I recommend a glance at Larry Lessig's opinion on this. It's not so
clear that Google is in the wrong. There is a case to be made for fair
use. And Google would not be providing the entire texts, only
excerpts. Read and see what you think:

http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/003140.shtml

Best
Dave

On 10/4/05, Champ-Blackwell, Siobhan
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> All of these big ideas that Google and Yahoo have about making
> everything available have to also follow copyright rules. Right now,
> what that means is a big mess.
> siobhan
>
> Copyright lawsuit challenges Google's vision of digital 'library'
> Daniel B. Wood Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
> 09/26/2005
> http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0926/p03s01-ussc.html
>
> (LOS ANGELES) Book publisher Lisa Grant recently got an e-mail from
> Google Inc. - the $90 billion Internet search engine.
>
> "Hello, Lisa, we understand that you have some concerns about your books
> being potentially included in the Library Project," it said, referring
> to Google's well-known bid to digitize the book collections of major
> libraries, including those at the University of Michigan, Harvard,
> Stanford, and Oxford. The idea: scan all or portions of those
> collections to make the texts searchable on the Internet for users
> around the world.
>
> "As you already aware," said the notice, explaining a step-by-step
> procedure, "you can easily exclude books from the Google Library
> Project."
>
> The interchange goes to the heart of a lawsuit filed in federal court in
> New York last week against Google and its Google Print Project. Brought
> by the 8,000- member Authors Guild, the suit seeks damages and an
> injunction to halt Google's project, claiming it violates copyright
> because authors have not first given permission to use their works.
>
> Siobhan Champ-Blackwell, MSLIS
> Community Outreach Liaison
> National Network of Libraries of Medicine - MidContinental Region
> Creighton University Health Sciences Library
> 2500 California Plaza
> Omaha, NE 68178
> 402-280-4156/800-338-7657
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://nnlm.gov/mcr/ (NN/LM MCR Web Site)
> http://medstat.med.utah.edu/blogs/BHIC/ (Web Log)
> http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/siobhanchamp-blackwell (Digital
> Divide Network Profile)
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kenan
> Jarboe
> Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 9:16 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [DDN] Business Week story on Digital Divide
>
> Business Week is running a story on what tech companies are doing on
> the Digital Divide: Help for Info Age
> Have-Nots  -
> http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2005/tc2005104_6877_tc
> 024.htm
>
> It includes a mention of the MIT $100 computer, among other
> things.  It also stresses the need to go beyond the one-size-fits-all
> solution.  One of the projects I found most interesting was the
> "Bookmobile" part of Yahoo's Internet Archive project:
> The project will do more than just give everyday Internet users full
> access to some of the world's classic works, says Internet Archive
> founder Brewster Kahle. In addition to being available online, the
> digital books will be included on all of the archive's "Bookmobiles"
> -- Internet-enabled trucks that print and bind books on demand for
> the poor and underprivileged.
> Kahle says those trucks, which have been deployed as far away as
> Egypt and Uganda, are just the beginning. Using this print-on-demand
> technology, "we want every school, and every neighborhood library to
> be a million-book library," says Kahle.
> As I have tried to stress, its not about the technology - its about
> access to information and communications.  After all, we don't call
> it the Internet economy, we call it the information economy.
>
> Ken
>
>
>
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Re: [DDN] Virtual conferences

[Dave Pentecost]

Just an aside to this discussion, which is interesting and to the
point of digital divide and digital elite issues:

Many people considering digital divide issues are also concerned with
energy and sustainability. Is airline travel, in which each individual
is responsible for energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions
equivalent to a year's worth of driving, compatible with this?

(clearly the amount of energy required is dependent on distances
traveled, but you get my point)

Best
Dave 

On 9/17/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John is absolutely on target.
> 
> The original argument in the development community was bandwidth and the
> exclusion of those who couldn't participate- but even fewer can participate
> in a f-t-f except those who are funded to do ict4d.
> 
> Taran is on target too. Actually, there are many virtual conferences that
> have been arranged using a variety of vehicles and in all sectors.
> 
> Could it be that it is the digital immigrants who control what should be
> run by digital natives using a variety of excuses to avoid loss of control?
> 
> thoughts?
> 
> tom abeles
> 
> Original Message:
> -
> From: John Hibbs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 07:51:01 -0700
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [DDN] Virtual conferences
> 
> 
> At 3:26 PM -0500 9/15/05, Taran Rampersad wrote:
> >John Hibbs wrote:
> >Why is an ICT conference not held virtually? Why do I have to travel
> >  to Washington to participate? or listen? or view? What century do we
> >  live in?
> 
> 15 Sep 2005 15:26:11 -0500 Taran Rampersad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >So that's where I left my drum! :-) Maybe it's just not easy enough
> >for people to organize a conference virtually yet... or maybe they
> >don't know how easy it is?
> 
> 
> Subscribers to the leading listserv in the distance education world
> have heard me beat this drum for almost a decade. The largest, most
> prestigious (?) distance ed conferences have very little virtual
> component; yet the leaders talk the talk about the wonders of their
> deliveries. My wee voice has been a lonely one.
> 
> Perhaps the DDN should take up one more cudgel  -- that it should
> beat up on those who hold large physical conferences advocating ICT;
> but are unwilling to offer same virtually? If we at the "leading
> edge" don't walk the walk -- who will?
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Re: [DDN] Basic Technologies

[Dave Pentecost]

Hi Chris

I'll look back into some of my files and links, but you might want to
look into micro hydro power (tiny generators in streams or rivers,
linked to batteries). I researched it a bit when I was looking for
alternatives to a huge dam that was planned for the Usumacinta River,
between Mexico and Guatemala. Due to local and international protest,
that dam plan has been shelved - for now.

But when I posted information on micro hydro on my blog, it got more
comments and requests for more info than almost anything else I've
posted.

http://www.gomaya.com/glyph/archives/86.html

One of the links in that post was to a (surprisingly?) good source of
papers on sustainable development - the World Bank. Politics aside,
there are good resources there.

http://www-wds.worldbank.org/

Here for instance is a list of 171 items returned in a search for "solar":

http://www-wds.worldbank.org/servlet/WDS_IBank_Servlet?stype=AllWords&all=solar&x=9&y=8&ptype=sSrch&pcont=results&sortby=D&sortcat=D

For news and reports on sustainable technologies of all kinds, in a
format irresistible to webheads like us, you can't beat WorldChanging:

http://www.worldchanging.com/

I'll see what else I can find.

Best
Dave

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On 9/14/05, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am interested to know if anyone recommends any good
> websites/articles/organizations regarding the provision of "basic"
> technologies of development (like wells and electricity).
> 
> I feel frustrated that, because of my web development background perhaps, I
> am surrounded with ideas about wikis and photoblogs, etc., but I know
> nothings about what it takes to, say, get some solar panels or a water
> purifier up and running.
> 
> Any help?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chris Blow
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Re: [DDN] Google IM and Talk

[Dave Pentecost]

Google's application is PC only but Mac users can set up iChat to use
it. It's very easy.

See this link for a how-to:

http://www.google.com/support/talk/bin/answer.py?answer=24076

Best
Dave Pentecost



On 8/24/05, James Lerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Google announced today a free IM and talk service for registered gMail
> users (pc only)
> 
> 
> Available now at: http://www.google.com/talk/
> 
> Jim Lerman
> 
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[DDN] More H20 and OPML - "Tree of knowledge" technologies

[Dave Pentecost]

David Weinberger has posted accounts of demos on 2 successive nights,
of H20 and OPML. It's a convenient place to get a taste of what's up
with these technologies:

http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/004231.html

Click the right arrow at the top of the page ("Dave's outline editor")
to go to the OPML post.

It's also interesting to note that at a time when tagging of
information is in vogue (plain labelling, no heirarchies), these
taxonomy systems are also being advanced and made simpler and
collaborative.

Why should DDN care? As with blogging software and wikis, these tools
enable ordinary people to communicate and cooperate online more
efficiently and easily. They also make it simpler to read, generate,
manage and merge the RSS feeds that more and more people are adopting.

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Re: [DDN] H2O Playlist

[Dave Pentecost]

People thinking along the lines of shared "playlists" might want to
watch for the work that Dave Winer is doing with OPML - outline
processor markup language. There is great potential for shared
outlines of many kinds.

Dave will release an open source OPML editor (with an extremely simple
user interface - I saw him demo it last night) in the next couple of
months. Beta testing is going on right now. Dave invented RSS, another
very simple and powerful standard. OPML in one application can
organize and disseminate lists of RSS feeds. In another, it manages
shared workgroup notes.

Dave's famously ornery blog is a source for news on this:

http://archive.scripting.com/

I will post other links as I find them.


Best
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On 7/13/05, joseph savirimuthu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for this Deborah
> We are trying to create a Visually Impaired Commons
> site established in the UK - will draw on your
> suggestions to give our work much needed impetus.
> Joseph
> 
> --- Deborah Elizabeth Finn
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > (A version of this item with live links is available
> > at
> >
> <http://blog.deborah.elizabeth.finn.com/blog/_archives/2005/7/13/1019747.html>.)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Dear Colleagues,
> >
> > On Tuesday, I attended a very lively presentation at
> > Harvard Law
> > School on H20 Playlist
> > <http://h2obeta.law.harvard.edu/home.do> by
> > Jonathan Zittrain, Molly Krause, and Hal Roberts.
> >
> > H20 Playlist has been inspired by internet-based
> > information sharing
> > projects such as Amazon.com book reviews, Wikipedia,
> > del.icio.us,  and
> > iTunes.  The logic is intriguing:  if untold numbers
> > of netizens are
> > willing to spend untold hours classifying their
> > knowledge, online
> > resources, digital music, and web links to share
> > online with
> > strangers, then with the right tool (and a certain
> > amount of
> > persuasion) educators of all kinds can share their
> > curricula, syllabi,
> > and other resources.
> >
> > I see this as a tool that has great potential for
> > nearly every
> > mission-based organization that includes education
> > in its long term
> > strategy.  However, the project is still in its
> > infancy, and my sense
> > is that it hasn't reached the point where it would
> > be easy and
> > intuitive  enough to engage those over-worked
> > nonprofit professionals
> > who are not intrinsically facinated by the
> > underlying technology.  So
> > my advice to most people in the nonprofit sector is
> > to keep an eye on
> > H20 Playlist, but let someone else be the beta
> > tester.
> >
> > For some, these cautionary words will merely inspire
> > greater eagerness
> > to forge ahead with H20 Playlist.  For that group's
> > benefit, I've
> > created a playlist on "free ICT resources for
> > philanthropic,
> > nonprofit, and community-based organizations." You
> > are very welcome to
> > add comments or to use my H20 Playlist as a starting
> > point for
> > creating one of your own. Many of the items I've
> > listed will be very
> > familiar to readers of my blog, and are therefore
> > not new and
> > exciting, but I predict that as H20 Playlist accrues
> > more educational
> > content, it will be exciting for mission-based
> > organizations to
> > compare notes - not only with traditional academic
> > instructors, but
> > also with each other.
> >
> > Best regards from Deborah
> >
> > P.S.  For more on the conceptual framework, see
> > Molly Krause's
> > Playlist, "The Philosophy of H2O."
> >
> > Deborah Elizabeth Finn
> > Boston, Massachusetts, USA
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > http://blog.deborah.elizabeth.finn.com/blog
> > http://public.xdi.org/=deborah.elizabeth.finn
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[DDN] Google (and other) Map Hacks

[Dave Pentecost]

After my grumble about Google Earth being Windows only, I thought I
should contribute something positive.

Here's an interesting collection of links to map hacks. It may give
folks some ideas.

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/07/where_20_a_coll.html

And here's a page of search results on O'Reilly Radar that has other
entries that may be useful:

http://radar.oreilly.com/mt/search?IncludeBlogs=24&Template=radar&search=Map

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Re: [DDN] Google Earth for Nonprofit Organizations: Let's All Try It, and See What Happens

[Dave Pentecost]

It is a cool tool. And I'll watch with interest all you Windows folks
making good use of it! Until it's available for OS X, "Let's all"
leaves out a significant creative force in computing and
communications.

Just my grumble. Have fun!

Saludos
Dave Pentecost

On 7/11/05, Deborah Elizabeth Finn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> (A version of this item with live links is available at
> <http://blog.deborah.elizabeth.finn.com/blog/_archives/2005/7/11/1015777.html>.)
> 
> 
> 
> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> I'm usually pretty staunch in my belief that nonprofit and
> philanthropic organizations should not be carried away by cool tools,
> but should subordinate the technology they use to organizational
> missions and strategies.
> 
> But now Google Earth has come along, and I think that we should all
> download it, fiddle around with it, and see if we can make creative
> use of it in our sector.
> 
> Basically, Google Earth is a free online geographical information
> system (GIS) tool that allows us to make nearly seamless use of a
> wealth of visual information that is drawn from many sources.  It
> brings smart maps to our desktops.
> 
> It's easy to see that this will be a powerful tool for nonprofit
> educational organizations that want to teach geography.  (This is a
> wonderful discipline, which draws upon social research and natural
> science for insights about our world, but which is often unfairly
> deprecated as obsolete "now that we know where everything is.")  I can
> also see how useful Google Earth will be for planners and
> community-based advocacy groups.  But I'd also like to challenge all
> of us in the  nonprofit sector  to think about other creative ways to
> mine this data.  For example, can direct-service nonprofits use Google
> Earth to better understand their catchment areas and the clients that
> live there?
> 
> Let's start brainstorming, and find out!
> 
> Best regards from Deborah
> 
> Deborah Elizabeth Finn
> Boston, Massachusetts, USA
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: [DDN] Wireless in every city

[Dave Pentecost]

There are many good websites on municipal and community wireless, but
I just saw a link today to a new one: CommunityInternet.us

http://www.communityinternet.us/

It includes six sample business plans, something I've needed in my own
efforts to establish community wireless in the Lower East Side of
Manhattan.

The link was in a post on the Daily Wireless, where Sam Churchill has
tirelessly covered municipal and community wireless issues. Here's the
relevant post (be sure and search his site for its broad coverage of
the field):

http://www.dailywireless.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4198

He also has links to many other similar sites. And Sam has done a lot
of coverage of municipal legal battles in particular.

Good luck, Audrey! Let me know if there is something specific you
can't find - I may have run across it myself.

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> 
> Your help needed. I've been asked to investigate the future of Wifi for
> municipalities with the advent of WiFI. could a municipality or bordering
> municipalities establish their own
> wireless phone and internet exchange (i.e. provide Internet and phone
> service to residents at a reduced cost)? If so, what are the revenue
> implications? How would this alter the municipality's structure, size,
> form and function? What would a municipality  have to do to begin
> the process of establishing community-wide wireless service? What would
> they need to invest in? What are the potential upfront costs? Who or
> what entity could consult and be a resource of information for
> municipalities? If anyone can point me in the right direction to answer
> these questions, I'd greatly appreciate it.
> 
> Audrey Borus
> Gender, Diversities, and Technology Institute
> Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC)
> 55 Chapel Street, Newton, MA 02458
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Re: [DDN] A new member introduction, Neil Hendrick

[Dave Pentecost]

Welcome, Neil, and I look forward to visiting your project next year.
I travel to Chiapas and Guatemala every spring. (See my site, The
Daily Glyph, for clues to my mania)

And I'll try to come up with some helpful ideas in the meantime.

Saludos
Dave

On 5/9/05, Neil Hendrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Introducing myself as a new member and suggesting a topic of conversation,
> 
> I am a Digital Divide activist, Neil Hendrick. I'm working with Partners in 
> Solidarity to build a network of Computer Academies in Xela, Guatemala. 
> Project dates, Jan-Mar 2006.
> 
> A little history is that this is the PIS's fifth consecutive year working in 
> the region, we've set up 16 computer labs serving rural indigenous Mayan 
> schools. This is my third year working with PIS, I have also worked in 
> Nicaragua with an organization I co-founded, Communication Integration. This 
> upcoming project is the most ambitious project to date, creating 9 Computer 
> Academies with 30-40 computers each.
> 
> In that vein, I would like to pose a question to the list.
> 
> What sort of Curriculum should be used in a Computer Academy?
> 
> The Rules:
> 1) There are 9 schools, open 40 hours a week with 30 computers. Children can 
> sit 2 to a computer.
> 2) The curriculum will terminate in a certificate.
> 3) No access to Internet. (however, a person can visit cybercafes in 
> Quetzaltenango, it can be assumed that any person using a computer in this 
> program will be able to find public access to computers in the real world at 
> some time. )
> 
> So, thank-you, I look forward to following the discussion.
> 
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> http://www.partnersinsolidarity.com/
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Re: [DDN] Webheads and the Digital Divide Network,

[Dave Pentecost]

Thanks to Ross for such a clear example of podcasts (or audio files)
as appropriate technology.

I would only add two things:

1) That the argument against podcasting based on broadband
inequalities assumes that those inequalities are intrinsic to our
world and cannot be changed. Providing affordable broadband to a wider
global population (including U.S citizens now blocked by monopolies)
is a prime part of our mission on this list. It's a little like
arguing against books because not everyone in the world can read. Self
fulfilling. Come to think of it, aural media may augment cell phones
in primarily oral cultures.

2) And that one strength of audio files in repressive regimes (take
your pick) is that they cannot be searched for content by Google or
other search engines. This despite claims by at least one website to
provide searches of podcasts - very few are actually transcribed and
indexed. In a world increasingly under surveillance this can be a
distinct advantage.

Pod on!

Dave Pentecost


On 5/9/05, Ross Gardler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Taran Rampersad wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Tell that to my colleague in Guyana that I refer in my original mail. He
> doesn't see a high barrier to entry. He has his US$25 MP3 payer and a CF
> disk I sent out to him. He is now listening to keynote speeches
> otherwise unavailable in the deepest parts of the Guyanese Rainforrest.
> He seems pretty damn happy!
> 
> Sure I could print it out and send it, but that would cost far more in
> the long run since paper has a very short lifespan in damp environments.
> 
> I could send the text files and he could read them off a PDA, but that
> is tiring on the eye and far less enjoyable. Not to mention a PDAs cost
> far more than a cheap and chearful MP3 player.
> 
> Furthermore, print and PDA cannot easily be shared with other members of
> the community (remember they have no computers), an MP3 can be passed
> easily from houshold to household, hell you could have four loaned out
> at once for the same cost of the cheapest PDA.
> 
> In addition there is *no* training required in using an MP3 (well beyond
> click this button to start and this one to stop). Conversely, using a
> PDA or a computer requires considerable training for people in the most
> technologically underdeveloped communities. I'm not sure this can be
> called a high barrier to entry.
> 
> Better yet, you can plug an MP3 into a truck stereo as a rudimentary PA
> system.
> 
> The only barrier to entry I see is the bandwidth required for getting
> the maerials in the first place. What we must remember, though, is that
> bandwidth does not have to be an Internet connection. A CF disk in the
> post is pretty high bandwidth and very cheap. A CD is even cheaper if
> there is a CD player available.
> 
> Of course, the materials I have sent him are not the kind of thing he
> would share with his community, they don't have the BSc in computer
> science that he has. However, I am sure podcasts could be made that are
> relevant to the wider community, perhaps something like the HIV/Aids
> awareness episodes of the BBC World Service West Way series would be a
> good example for Nigeria.
> 
> Perhaps we all need to remind ourselves not to write off a technolgoy
> simply because we do not yet see how it can be applied. Lets show it to
> those who may be able to make use of it and see if they come up with any
> ideas ( I blogged about this a good few weeks ago in relation to the
> Simputer http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/rgardler )
> 
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Re: [DDN] Webheads and the Digital Divide Network,

[Dave Pentecost]

Let me play devil's advocate for a moment on this thread.

> John Hibbs wrote:
> 
> > Here's my caveat. The one area that I think needs improvement is how
> > both groups can get more attention?
> >
(snip)
> >
> > I wish they would give more thought on how to reach millions.
> 

Taran Rampersad wrote:
> 
> Catering to the lowest common denominator is what this is really about.


I also would like to see these issues get wider attention. But as a
refugee from the television networks I know too well how the search
for wider audiences warps your message. And the phrase "lowest common
denominator" leads to an easy condescension to your readers.

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.

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.

Best
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[DDN] Podcasts from Chiapas

[Dave Pentecost]

Hi folks

For DDN folks who are interested:

I've been in Chiapas, Mexico for about a month, podcasting and posting
travel updates. Nicco Mele of echoradio came along for the first week
and has started posting the podcasts we recorded in the Maya sites of
Palenque, Yaxchilan, and Bonampak. It begins with part one of Nicco's
conversation with archaeologist and mapper Ed Barnhart:

http://nicco.org/blog/archives/junglecast.html

My post from today updates that with a visit to the Lacandon Maya, and
provides links to our previous posts:

http://www.gomaya.com/glyph/archives/001199.html#001199

Xeni Jardin picked up what we were doing, and posted on Boing Boing today:

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/04/05/crosscultural_podcas.html

I'm here for another week and there are more podcasts and video in the
works, four more already edited. It's been a great variation on my
annual obsession with documenting the Maya, a return to one village
with video from 25 years ago, and an interesting experiment with Nicco
in collaborative recording and reporting from the road. I still find
it a challenge to live it, document it, edit it, and get it out. But
the discovery this year of wi-fi within range of my highland base has
made a huge difference.

Wireless from San Cristobal de las Casas
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Re: [DDN] Opn Access Archiving

[Dave Pentecost]

Creative Commons, which is fighting for more open culture through
copyright reform, has a similar science initiative that digital divide
network folks should be aware of.

http://science.creativecommons.org/

Best
Dave


On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:11:28 +0530, Subbiah Arunachalam
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Friends:
> 
> I just visited the Bytesforall.net portal and found the following two 
> interesting items.
> 
> 
> UN opens its Official Document System to the general public
> 
> The United Nations has launched its Official Document System (ODS), a 
> full-text web resource for official UN documentation.
> 
> INDIA * The 'virus' of Free Software is spreading...
> 
> This is a list of the useful user groups that help in spreading Free/Libre 
> and Open Source Software. Most are from around India, and could play a useful 
> role in spreading the ideals of sharing and freedom in the FLOSS movement. 
> Would really appreciate any help in updating and correcting this list and 
> keeping it current. Thanks for helping to update this list and keeping it 
> relevant. -- FN (Frederick Noronha in Goa) fred at bytesforall.org.
> ---
> 
> A number of the readers of this portal are keen to promote open source 
> software. There is an equally important and useful goal to be achieved. I am 
> talking about making the world's scientific and scholarly journal literature 
> accessible to everyone free of cost and instantly on publication. The portal 
> is happy to report that the UN has opened up its official documents. Should 
> we not work towards opening up the scientific and schoalrly research 
> literature? Some may ask why is that important. Let me explain. Knowledge is 
> important at all levels. We at the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation know 
> from our experience with the knowledge centres in Pondicherry and Tamil Nadu 
> in southern India over the past decade how very useful access to knowledge is 
> for the rural poor. The role played by these centres both during and after 
> the recent tsunami attack on our coasts has been written about and discussed 
> in intenational fora. The orderly fashion in which relief measures were 
> delivere!
 d in these villages was in stark contrast to what had happened elsewhere. Andy 
Carvin and others who attended the recent Baramati Conference were full of 
praise for Prof. Swaminathan's talk on our kowledge centres. If access to 
relevant and useful information makes a difference in the lives of the rural 
poor, it is even more crucial for those in the business of generating new 
knowledge that can form the basis of development. That is why scientists and 
scholars need to have immediate access to the newly emerging kowledge, 
irrespective of where it comes from. Unfortunately, the scholarly journals 
which mediate this process have become unaffordable; there are too many of them 
and most of them are very expensive. But developments in technology, especially 
ICTs, have made it possible for us now to have such access at a ridiculously 
low cost.
> 
> Taking advantage of the web technology, physicists of the world started 
> exchanging their research findings through an archive called arXiv about 15 
> years ago. Today most physicists worth the name use arXiv to let others know 
> of therir new papers and to learn what other physicists are up to. arXiv is a 
> centralised archive, originally located at Los Alamos National Laboratory and 
> now at Cornell University, and it has more than 15 mirror sites, several of 
> them in Asia including one at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences in 
> Chennai (Madras). People who have thought about archiving research papers 
> have thought of interoperable institutional archives as another possibility 
> and today there are about 400 such institutional open access archives around 
> the world. The one at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, has about 
> 1,700 papers stored in it and the number is increasing every day.
> 
> It is in the interest of developing country scientists and scholars to 
> promote the culture of institutional archiving. Imagine a world where every 
> institution performing and publishing research has an archive and every 
> scientist deposits his/her papers in these archives. Now anyone can access 
> any paper if he/she has an Internet connection. Knowledge will flow freely 
> and science will advance much faster than in a regime where knowledge is 
> locked up and kept inaccessible to all the users through cost barriers.
> 
> There is another and possibly more important benefit for developing country 
> scientists. Right now papers by scientists from DCs are rarely noticed, read 
> and quoted by others. The journals produced in DCs are rarely subscribed by 
> libraries in advanced countries. Often someone in Bangalore may not know what 
> another scientist living in Kanpur has published! But if all these papers are 
> available free on the Net, then their visibility and citability will increa

[DDN] More on IWD, Girls Club, community wireless

[Dave Pentecost]

Thanks to Amy for her International Women's Day message!

IWD was a big day for the Lower Eastside Girls Club, where my wife is
executive director (I am Tech Guy). In a press conference, Mayor
Bloomberg and Councilwoman Margarita Lopez announced a $2.5 million
gift from the Mayor's budget to help build the new Girls Club facility
on previously vacant, city-owned lots in the Lower East Side of
Manhattan. It will be a "green" building with a health center, media
and computer labs (the Hedy Lamarr Center!) cafe and podcasting
studio.

I was there shooting the event, and my camera wavered when I heard the
Mayor describe the new building, declaring that it would give away
free wireless internet access to the housing projects - my
contribution to the plan for the building. To hear my idealistic dream
echoed by the Mayor of New York City, especially in a time when
municipalities are under attack by the telcos to prevent free
wireless, was quite a moment. And with municipalities increasingly
barred from doing this, it makes even more sense for private or
nonprofit groups to step up and address the lack of affordable
broadband. Now I have to make the dream a reality.

So the Mayor and Margarita had their moment, the club got a big boost,
my wife had 8 years of hard work recognized, the girls got on local TV
news, and I got a moment of encouragement. What a happy International
Women's Day!

Best
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Re: [DDN] Podcasting on NBC 4 - Washington, DC

[Dave Pentecost]

Thanks to Bonnie for the update on this. 

One footnote - it was an earlier post on this list calling for DC area
podcasters  that led to the involvement of EchoDitto.

When I saw that post, I forwarded it to Nicco Mele, who was one of the
founders of the company.  Nicco and most of the EchoDitto staff come
out of the Dean web-based campaign.

And I'd also like to offer my help to anyone beginning to work with
civicspace. I've created several sites with it in the last few months
and have probably made most of the usual beginner's mistakes. If
anyone needs some guidance I'd be glad to advise.

Here's the civicspace site if you want to find out more or download
the software (requires a server that has php and MySQL):

http://civicspacelabs.org/

I also recommend this site for some very clear tutorials on setting up
Drupal sites (applicable to civicspace):

http://support.bryght.com/adminguide/how-to/

One last note: Nicco and I are going to Chiapas and Guatemala this
month. It's a short break from internet politics, but we will be
podcasting. I'll post some pointers on the list when we have them
available.

Best  to all
Dave






On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 11:23:12 -0500, Bonnie Bogle
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Today at 5pm on channel 4, NBC news will air a story on podcasting in the 
> District featuring interviews from local listeners and podcasters.
> 
> Eric Gundersen, a web designer at Development Seed 
> (http://www.developmentseed.org/) will show how you can download and
> play podcasts from your computer or MP3 player and play clips from his 
> favorite podcasts.  Local podcaster Tim Jones, a website developer at 
> EchoDitto (http://www.echoditto.com/), will demonstrate how he records his 
> program EchoRadio (http://radio.echoditto.com/).
> 
> Eric and Tim are both involved in open source software advancement and 
> working to decrease the digital divide.  Development Seed specializes in 
> designing sites on the OS Drupal/CivicSpace content management system for 
> progressive organizations and Tim has written many features to enhance the 
> Drupal platform.This is great the OS CMS Drupal/CivicSpace is up on 
> podcasting thanks to its  extensible-RSS code and its podcasting extension.  
> Our team at Development Seed fully expects to design several podcasting sites 
> for progressive organizations in the coming year.
> 
> Check it out Friday at 5pm on NBC Channel 4 in the greater Washington, DC 
> area. Also listen to Tim's latest podcast interviewing I.J. Hudson from 
> NBC-4. http://radio.echoditto.com/files/echoradio-13.mp3
> 
> Cheers,
> Bonnie
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Re: [DDN] Use rates in Ghana

[Dave Pentecost]

Just to add a little more information about Geekcorps:

The founder, Ethan Zuckerman, has a weblog called "My blog's in
Cambridge, but my heart is in Accra".

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethan/

He's no longer with the organization, but he should be an invaluable
source of information regarding the recent history of internet growth
in Accra.

There is also a fascinating podcast of a presentation that Ethan made
at the Pop!Tech 2004 conference:

http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail250.html

Best
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On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 18:57:22 -0600 (CST), [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Dina,
> 
> If you don't know about them already, I recommend chatting up the guys
> over at Geekcorps.org, it's a non-profit that does a lot of work with
> technology in the Accra area. I am not sure if they have what you are
> looking for exactly, but i imagine if anyone would, they would. I think
> it's a good place to start asking around.
> 
> Good luck
> 
> -Chris
> 
> > Colleagues -
> >
> > I'm writing up research on Ghanaian adolescents' use of the Internet,
> > especially for online health information.  I would like the most current
> > stats, if possible on the general popoulations' use of the Internet, from
> > Ghana and in Accra, specifically.  Anyone have suggestions on a good
> > source?
> >
> > Regards, Dina
> >
> >
> > Dina L.G. Borzekowski, Ed.D.
> > Assistant Professor
> > Department of Population and Family Health Sciences
> > Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
> > 615 N. Wolfe Street, Rm E4144
> > Baltimore, MD  21205
> > tel: 410-502-8977
> > fax: 410-955-2303
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Re: [DDN] Digital Divide' Narrowing Fast, World Bank Says

[Dave Pentecost]

Thanks to John for bringing this resource disparity to the fore. It
reminds me of the disconnect of environmentalists putting a year's
worth of car driving carbon into the atmosphere for every plane flight
they take to an international conference.

Without someone like Andy tirelessly disseminating the news from these
conferences, the rest of us would be scratching our heads wondering
what is going on. As it is, we are still outside with our noses to the
glass. There is a conference gap in addition to the digital divide.
The sooner we find a way to remedy this the better for everyone.

Best
Dave


On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 06:42:29 -0800, John Hibbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 7:01 PM -0500 2/24/05, Jon maddog Hall wrote:
> >WHY do they hold these meetings in Geneva?  Why don't they hold them in the
> >REAL world, sayNigeria or (dare I say it) Appalacia or Indian 
> >reservations
> >in the South West of the United States?  Or maybe inner-city Chicago...the
> >Digital Divide is not an "African thing".
> 
> If the digital divide is so narrow, why don't they hold them
> virtually? Or, if the digital divide is wide, why don't they hold
> them virtually?
> 
> For those who don't have connectivity, where the divide is wide,
> conference organizers could send bus tickets to the nearest
> telecenterbut if the divide is narrow, anyone of consequence
> could get to a telecenter on foot..or at worst, on bike.
> 
> Like Jim Madddog Hall, this nonsense pisses me off. Plenty of money
> to sit in the front of the airplane and hob-nob in fancy hotels; but
> very little money to provide chalk, water pumps and training to clean
> the chicken coops.
> 
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> http://www.bfranklin.edu/johnhibbs
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Re: [DDN] Copyrights

[Dave Pentecost]

Am I the only one who is confused in this discussion by the use of the
word "broadcast"? There was no mention in the original post of
broadcasting these presentations. The use described may still require
a license, but broadcasting is an entirely different use and requires
different licenses.

Thanks
Dave 


On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 21:20:52 +, Ross Gardler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Colin Mutchler wrote:
> > I would add that this is not such a simple issue.  While I am not a
> > lawyer, there are several who have told me that fair use can be applied
> > to a much larger degree that we currently think.  The legal grey area
> > that you find yourself in is one of the failures of our current
> > copyright system, and one that many youth media organizations across the
> > country are facing.
> 
> I am not a lawyer either. However, I did spend eight years in the music
> industry and had many dealings with the Performing Rights Society here
> in the UK. The laws governing this aspect of copyright are some of the
> oldest and most established in law, in fact copyright law in the UK was
> created for music in the first place. There is *no* grey area in this
> aspect of copyright law (assuming you are using music recorded and
> published under the traditional model).
> 
> There are arguments to change the law, but as it stands the law is
> currently clear in that if you do anything with published music that you
> have not been expressly granted a license for then you are are breaking
> the law. Purchasing an average CD or MP3 *does not* give you broadcast
> rights.
> 
> In order to legally broadcast any music in any form you must obtain a
> license. There are sources of music that would give you the right to use
> in the way described, but the original mail seemed to imply they were
> using traditional licensed material.
> 
> Please be under no illusions, the use you described is illegal if the
> only license you have for the music is the act that you purchased a CD
> (I am assuming the CD is licensed under the traditional model, i.e. it
> says "all rights reserved" on it).
> 
> You are unlikely to be prosecuted given there is no profit motive, but
> nevertheless, it is still illegal and permission should be sought.
> 
> Your best option is to do as some have suggested, use some music that is
> under a permissive license (like creative commons) or contact the
> copyright holders and ask permission to use it (contact the record label).
> 
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Re: [DDN] PBS NOW to focus on broadband and digital divide issues

[Dave Pentecost]

It looks like this is the date and time for that show:

Friday, February 25, 8:30pm   (this is the New York schedule)

Also, members of the list might be interested in this collection of
information from a previous show on Big Media:

http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/fcc.html

I had the privilege of  editing several shows in the Moyers series 
"World of Ideas" in the 80's. The interview with Noam Chomsky still
stands out as one of the best and most out of the ordinary shows I did
in my 25 year career. Thanks to Bill Moyers for producing television
and communication at its best.

And thanks to all the folks on this list for such a high level of
thought and discussion.

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On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 12:00:06 -0500 (EST), Stephen Ronan
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On PBS, the show NOW hosted by David Brancaccio (formerly hosted by Bill
> Moyers) will have a major focus next week on broadband and digital divide
> issues. Just caught a brief preview clip at the end of this week's show that
> looked to be Brancaccio interviewing Ben Scott of Free Press
> (www.freepress.net).
> 
> Tangentially, an article: "Broadband 'Redlining' Issue Raised in
> Fiber Deployment": http://advancedippipeline.com/news/60400223
> 
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Re: [DDN] new article - "designing a G3/G4 computer lab for $2,000"

[Dave Pentecost]

Here's the permalink to Phil's article:

http://www.macusingeducators.com/2005/02/designing-g3g4-computer-lab-for-2000.html

so you can still find it after it scrolls off the page. Post it on
your websites!

Best
Dave


On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 17:23:42 -0500 (EST), Phil Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> hi everyone -
> 
>  in case it might be of interest, i've posted a new article to the mac
> using educators web site.
> "designing a G3/G4 computer lab for $2,000"
> 
>   http://www.macusingeducators.com
> 
>   thanks for passing along word about this to folks you know who
> might benefit from it.
> 
>   - phil
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Re: [DDN] Municipal broadband efforts in the US

[Dave Pentecost]

I like Daily Wireless

http://www.dailywireless.org/

And I have blogged many of his (Sam Churchill) municipal wireless
stories. I'll try to round up some of his links. A good reason to
finally get Search up on my weblog!

Best
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On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:32:55 -0500 (EST), Phil Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> 
> >
> > Is anyone out there tracking the various state-level initiatives to either
> > block or encourage the deployment of broadband networks by local
> > governments?  I know there are a handful of actions underway in Illinois,
> > Wisconsin, New York, Massachusetts and Minnesota.  Is there anyone
> > monitoring these developments in a central location?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Charlie Meisch
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> 
> good question, charlie.  i believe the web site below is the most active on
> this topic.
> 
> http://www.muniwireless.com/reports/
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Re: [DDN] RSS: The Next ICT Literacy Challenge? content management

[Dave Pentecost]

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 community and campaign sites I am building.
CivicSpace has many more features than a simple blogging system, is
open source, and is still being improved by the team that started as
Hackers for Dean and created DeanSpace.

http://civicspacelabs.org/

A CMS usually allows you to maintain and update a site through a web
interface, without using Dreamweaver or other authoring programs. That
allows you to keep up a site wherever you are, in any internet cafe in
the world. That and the fact that many of them are free make them
powerful tools for web expression and collaboration, and a force to
narrow the divide.

Best
Dave


On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 23:29:57 +, Pamela McLean
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 *content* (currently
> stored on my computer in the best way I can figure out - a rather
> haphazard way which requires  a level of *management* that is rather
> over-stretching my unaided mental faculties)...
> Is that what it does - manage content?
> Is it affordable?
> Is it  set-up-able, and usable, by a non-techie who wants straight
> forward practical help - not a lot of playing around, and steep learning
> curves, and coaxing things to work?
> If so - how do I become transformed into a person with a (fully working)
> content management system?
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Re: [DDN] Re: [WWWEDU] RSS: The Next ICT Literacy Challenge?

[Dave Pentecost]

 like - it sounds catchy.

Where is all this going? Enclosures can enclose any kind of file. They
are already being used for video clips and bittorrent files (an
explanation of bittorrent will have to wait for another day). So media
producers will have a new method of distribution that bypasses the
broadcast and cablecast sources completely. You will be able to create
your own "channels" by selecting and subscribing to feeds to be loaded
to your VideoPod.

This has the potential of revolutionizing and decentralizing
communications of all kinds. But readers of this list will be quick to
realize the equal potential of widening the digital divide. We would
need ubiquitous broadband, simple and cheap tools, and widespread
knowhow to distribute this technology evenly. For this vision of
universal unmediated person to person media to be realized (and the
first crop of videobloggers are evangelists for this) we would have to
be living on a far different planet.

And on that note I thank you for your patience, and wish you good night.

With dreams of narrowing the gap
Dave Pentecost


On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 06:33:18 -0800, Jude Higdon
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, Pamela,
> 
> RSS stands for really simply syndication. It's like a wrapper of some
> basic metadata that is automatically put around units of content on the
> Web. These content units might, for instance, be a blog entry or a news
> story. The metadata that's captured is some standard info about the new
> story or blog entry itself, not about the content -- things like the
> author's name and the date and time the content was posted. The groovy
> thing about RSS (or one of them at least) is that it works like a news
> feed, so if you expose your RSS to the world, other Webheads might do
> something cool like include your feed as part of their site or use a
> feed reader to pull in a whole bunch of feeds from various news and
> blog sites. I personally read all of my online news now in Mozilla's
> Thunderbird -- goodbye Web surfing and bookmarking a bunch of sites
> that I usually forget to go to.
> 
> I admit the benefits may seem a bit esoteric at first, but I recommend
> continuing to wrap your head around it; it took me a few months before
> I started to see what it could do for me (and for the school where I
> work), but now I'm somewhere between a convert and a zealot.
> 
> Hope this is helpful.
> 
> jude
> 
> On Jan 21, 2005, at 2:35 PM, Pamela McLean wrote:
> 
> > Am I the only person wondering what  RSS  stands for?
> > I confess I am only dipping in and out of the DDN list anyhow so may
> > have missed something - or perhaps its something that "everyone" knows
> > (Maybe I'll suddenly realise as soon as I click on the send button to
> > confess my ignorance ..)
> > I don't need all the techie details - but would appreciate a sentence
> > or two..
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Re: [DDN] Boston Globe story on podcasting

[Dave Pentecost]

There is some movement in this area. Adam Curry has been including an
OPML file (a type of outline) when he posts his latest podcast. That
gives a rundown of what, generally, is on the podcast. It can also
include links that are mentioned in the recording.  Along these lines,
the best posting of a new podcast will also include a direct link to
the mp3, for those without iPodder software or players that are
compatible with the semi-automated process.

An outline is good for determining if you are likely to enjoy a
particular show, but this still doesn't address the needs of the deaf
community.

Dave


On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 22:42:40 -0500, Grant W. Laird Jr
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> Guys,
> 
> Dont forget that it probably doesn't support transcripts for deaf community.
> 
> I did talked about it in my recent blog...
> 
> http://blog.grantlairdjr.com
> 
> gwlj
> 
> On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 20:16:22 -0500, Dave Pentecost wrote
> > As a small clarification:
> >
> > Andy wrote:
> > > (You could also just download it to your computer, but that's not
> > > as cool or tragically hip as listening to it on your iPod). So rather
> > > than visiting someone's blog to listen to their audio program, my
> > > computer captures the audio file automatically and downloads it, so the
> > > next time I'm commuting on the train or whatever, I can listen to it.
> >
> > That, I think, is the key point in podcasting.  You listen away from
> > your computer, usually while doing something else. This is (one
> > reason) why podcasting took off and videoblogging hasn't.
> >
> > And you needn't be tragically hip. There are many mp3 players out
> > there, some built into jumpdrives and costing as little as $30.  You
> > can give every kid in a media program an mp3 player that also stores
> > all their digital photos and written work. Is that a cheap enough
> > platform for you?
> >
> > Best
> > Dave
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Re: [DDN] Boston Globe story on podcasting

[Dave Pentecost]

As a small clarification:

Andy wrote:
> (You could also just download it to your computer, but that's not
> as cool or tragically hip as listening to it on your iPod). So rather
> than visiting someone's blog to listen to their audio program, my
> computer captures the audio file automatically and downloads it, so the
> next time I'm commuting on the train or whatever, I can listen to it.

That, I think, is the key point in podcasting.  You listen away from
your computer, usually while doing something else. This is (one
reason) why podcasting took off and videoblogging hasn't.

And you needn't be tragically hip. There are many mp3 players out
there, some built into jumpdrives and costing as little as $30.  You
can give every kid in a media program an mp3 player that also stores
all their digital photos and written work. Is that a cheap enough
platform for you?

Best
Dave


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Re: [DDN] Boston Globe story on podcasting

[Dave Pentecost]

As it happens, I am on this list AND a podcaster, though I've just
done a couple of casts so far, which I call "Jungle Tales":

http://www.gomaya.com/glyph/rss.xml

As you'll see, that's an RSS feed with enclosures, and it requirers
getting a piece of software called an ipodder (see below).  This stuff
is not automatic yet but it's getting easier.

I followed the ramp up to podcasting last summer, met with Dave Winer
this fall, and I'm maintaining the "Travel" node at Adam Curry's
directory of podcasts:

http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/podcasts

If anybody has a travel-themed podcast they would like to be listed,
let me know. There are also other good links, including how-to and
ipodder software, at that site - ipodder.org

How am I using this to address the digital divide? At the Lower
Eastside Girls Club we are working on girl-produced music, radio, and
video as part of a community-wide network. Podcasting will be an
important part of the distribution process for all of this.

Best
Dave Pentecost




On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 12:04:48 -0500, Andy Carvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Today's Boston Globe has a nice story on podcasting and some of the
> locals who are pioneering the medium. Just as blogging allows any
> netizen to become an online writer, podcasting opens the doors for
> people to become Internet radio personalities as well. The article notes
> Dave Winer and Adam Curry's iPodder project and interviews local video
> blogger Steve Garfield. It also covers WGBH's Morning Stories, one of
> the first podcasts to come out of the public broadcasting community.
> 
> Expect to hear lots more about podcasting through the mainstream media
> in 2005, not to mention some of my own podcasts from my blog as well...
> -andy
> 
> http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/12/20/through_ipod_technology_anyone_can_be_a_broadcaster/
> or
> http://tinyurl.com/3ude2
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[DDN] Correct URL - Multi-purpose TV aids India

[Dave Pentecost]

Here's the direct link for that article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4025197.stm

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[DDN] Introducing Girls Club Ave. D Network

[Dave Pentecost]

Hello everyone! I am a new list participant. I wrote Andy Carvin to
say I'd introduce myself and our project, so here we are.

I am a 20-year veteran of the TV networks, now working with the Lower
Eastside Girls Club in Manhattan to build a facility that will house
their programs, including digital media, health center, and an
initiative to provide free wireless broadband to the housing projects
nearby.  Avenue D is the digital divide for our community - gentrified
East Village on one side, subsidized housing on the other. The Girls
Club has an opportunity to create a diverse community network, while
calling on the prosperous part of the neighborhood to help support the
underserved area.

Here is a description of the project as it is currently shaping up,
with help from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program and iEARN.
 Any suggestions are more than welcome.

Thanks
Dave Pentecost 




Avenue D Network  
A community web, based on free wireless access

The Lower Eastside Girls Club and Public School 188 are forming a
partnership to bring internet access, science and math education, and
wireless broadband to a community that has been underserved in all of
those areas.

The main components of the project are:

1) A community technology center at PS188 (Houston and Ave. D) in what
is presently the entry foyer of the school. This long, beautiful
space, with arched doorways to the outside, will be filled with a
wireless internet cafe open to students and parents of the
neighborhood. It will also serve as the after-school and weekend
headquarters for a project to get students interested and active in
science, math, and information technology. Funding for the facility is
in place. Architectural design has already been completed. System
design and implementation will begin in January of 2005, with the
center opening in the fall of that year.

2) A digital photography, video and internet radio center in the Girls
Club building, to be constructed between 7th and 8th streets on Avenue
D. This building will be certified "green" and will also house
commercial spaces at street level  and artist studios on the top two
floors, in cooperation with FEVA, the Federation of East Village
Artists. Groundbreaking on the building will take place in the fall of
2005.

3) A wireless community broadband network, with antennas on the Girls
Club and PS188, that will provide free or low cost internet access to
the housing projects on Avenue D. It will form the basis of a
community -wide network, sharing audio and video programs, health
information, business advertising, educational programs, and community
news. First evaluations and tests of wireless equipment, range and
coverage will begin in spring of 2005. Development of
community-specific applications and first network "broadcasts" will
also begin at that time.

We are seeking volunteers, interns, and mentors with skills to
contribute in many areas, including the following:

Network design, implementation, and security
Wireless broadband system design
Social software, applied to neighborhood wireless communications
Innovative educational approaches combining internet, math and science
Training youth and adults in Information Technology
Global collaboration, through web, VOIP, video conferencing
Video, audio and music production and distribution on the web
Website and weblog design, and training others in that area
RSS, "podcasting", bittorrent, and other emerging distribution methods
Mobile sharing of media and information

There will be opportunities for direct service and initiating
educational projects with students and families from the Girls Club
and PS 188 starting in Summer 2005.

In addition, we need people who can pursue options for acquiring the
bandwidth for the system - copper, fiber, point to point wireless -
and develop partnerships with suppliers and manufacturers who would
benefit from the visibility of the project and the development of new
social software and other community applications.

We are also open to any good idea that adds to the creative mix and
serves the neighborhood.

The first results of this effort will be the construction of the PS188
internet center and the creation of a database of resources and a
first planning survey, all by the fall of  2005.

The Avenue D Network will be designed by all participating partners,
including PS188 students, parents and staff; NYU Interactive
Telecommunication Program students and faculty; iEarn advisers;
students and staff of the Bard High School; and members of the Lower
Eastside Girls Club and FEVA. It will capitalize on and communicate
the diversity and creativity of the Lower East Side, and will provide
a model for centers in other communities.

Project coordinator: Dave Pentecost,  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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