[DDN] google's new literacy web site
hi DDN community - google has launched a literacy web site. i haven't looked into it yet, but it looks like it might have value. http://www.google.com/literacy/ - phil -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/pshapiro http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom begins with wonder." - Socrates ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] video -- sergey brin at the univ. of california
hi DDN community - this weekend you have a choice of watching the standard fare on television, or watching a video of sergey brin (co-founder of google) talking about the democratizing effects of technology -- and other topics. see the google video file at http://tinyurl.com/gewa7 i love how computer science professor dr. marti hearst introduces sergey brin: "today we are lucky enough to have a visiting speaker, sergey brin, from google. some of you might have even heard of google." and i love the way sergey brin indicates to this class of computer science students that their questions are more important than anything he has to say. sergey brin credits his creativity and sense of wonder from the montessori school he attended that's close to where i work in takoma park, maryland. (he attended paint branch montessori school, in adelphi, maryland, from kindergarten to 5th grade.) here's something to wonder about. in what ways are you increasing the sense of wonder of people in your community? how often have you told someone this month that, "curiosity is its own reward?" how often do you support the creativity of others you encouter each day? is it possible to support other people's creativity without much work, effort, or expense? if wisdom begins with wonder, are we wondering enough? what are the fruits of wondering? what can we learn about wondering from children? - phil -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/pshapiro http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom begins with wonder." - Socrates ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] Benetech CEO Jim Fruchterman Receives 2006 MacArthur Award
hi DDN community, jim fruchterman has been using his technology smarts to make the world a better place. hats off to him for being chosen for a macarthur fellow award. see http://www.benetech.org/about/press_releases/PR_2006-09-18_MacArthur.shtml or http://tinyurl.com/g5lfu - phil -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/pshapiro http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom begins with wonder." - Socrates ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] some thoughts about warren buffet's donation
hi DDN community - i'm working on a little video project which shares multiple points of views about warren buffet's large donation to the gates foundation. i'll be finished with this video project in a week or two, but some of you might enjoy seeing the result so far. i've uploaded the work-in-progress quicktime to the internet archive at http://tinyurl.com/hjgro you'll need a G4 Mac (or better) and quicktime 7 to view this video. this video ought to play well on most pentium 3 and pentium 4 windows computers -- as well as linux computers. apologies to the G3 mac users that i needed to leave behind on this project. this video also plays well on linux, using a program named mplayer. are you interested in creating some of your own videos like this? i've posted some screencasts explaining the steps at http://www.rosetimes.com click on the link "making rosetimes" at the top right of this web site. when you reach the internet archive (http://www.archive.org), my three how-to quicktimes can be found on the left side of the screen. those of you on this list involved with youth and multimedia, this is the kind of multimedia project that youth might enjoy working on. the dramatic angle is something youth might find creatively engaging. - phil -- Phil Shapiro pshapiro http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com "Where there is storytelling there are relationships. Where there is storytelling there are folks who crave to speak and learn." - Brenda Laurel. ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] NYT article - philanthropy google's way
hi DDN community - the new york times has a very interesting article on how google has structured its foundation as a for-profit, rather than a non-profit. this is a very smart move. google.org will be far more effective in that way. see http://tinyurl.com/ndlew - phil -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] towards musical inclusion
hi DDN community - i recently came across a neat new musical instrument, the "strumstick," which is a simplified guitar with just 3 strings. this instrument, invented by a very creative person in new jersey, sounds a bit like a banjo and a bit like a hammered dulcimer. it's very easy to play and will bring musical inclusion to many more people. i'm using youtube to help people learn about this instrument and i'm sending fan email to the inventor today to let him know how much i appreciate his invention. the videos i've uploaded to youtube are at Ode to Joy (Strumstick version) http://youtube.com/watch?v=x2SxiORP0Ig Joy to the World (Strumstick version) http://youtube.com/watch?v=uAPA1CxYlBg both of these melodies are in the public domain. in the coming weeks i'll be uploading more strumstick videos to youtube. you'll be able to find them by searching youtube for the word strumstick. - phil btw, here in the washington dc-area i'm also going to be giving strumstick lessons in people's homes. i paid $150 for my "Grand Strumstick" and i'll be able to recoup the cost fairly quickly by teaching a few lessons. i'm using craigslist and youtube to help me find strumstick (and guitar) students. i'll be volunteering in some DC-area shelters to help people learn the strumstick, too. i've been teaching the strumstick to the kids of some friends of mine and they loved playing it. -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] netflix starts distributing indie films
hi DDN community -
this is a big step forward for independent film producers. three cheers for
netflix. see the wired magazine article at
http://tinyurl.com/mwh4g
please tell your friends that if they're looking for independently
produced films, that netflix is one place they can find them.
phil shapiro
another distribution channel might be the rumored apple movie store, which may
be announced this month.
i favor the netflix model, though. my octogenerian mom gets movies from
netflix. it's unlikely she'll ever use a movie download service.
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[DDN] infinite museum screencasts
hi Digital Divide Network community -
i had fun creating these three sceencasts (using snapz pro) on wednesday
evening of this week.
http://infinitemuseum.blogspot.com
after uploading these quicktime files to the internet archive (http://
www.archive.org), i'll be submitting this page to digg.com, where a couple
million people may see it.
thanks are owed to the many people on this list who have helped me
grow in my computer skills and in what it means to serve one's community.
phil shapiro, public geek
takoma park maryland library
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[DDN] humble video on youtube viewed a million times
hi DDN community - this humble, and authentic, video on youtube has been viewed more than a million times since it was uploaded on august 5, 2006. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_YMigZmUuk turn off your television at home. it's far more interesting listening to each other than to the trash they put on tv. as they say, the revolution will be televised. but it won't be on television. - phil -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] vertical powerbook as an ebook reader
hi DDN community - jon udell is one of the smartest technology commentators. he is paid to wonder about things, and he wonders constantly about things. you can get a glimpse of his mind in action in this amusing and instructive quicktime. http://tinyurl.com/mxxdx - phil btw, with the help of his readers, jon coined the word "screencast" in november, 2004, to describe a narrated explanation of screen activity. and after coining the word, jon udell went on to show the world how a good screencast is done. see the wikipedia screencast at http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/gems/umlaut.html to see and hear jon udell at his very best. jon udell blogs at http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/ if you'd like to continue learning from him. truth is, i understand just a fraction of what he writes about, but i read him all the same. why? because he is telling me things i need to know. -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] Fwd: Two Great K12 Open Source Interviews from South Africa and Indiana
hi DDN community - i received this email from steve hargadon which has a bunch of stuff that might be of interest to people on this list. if you're interested with what steve hargadon is up to, you can sign up for his email newsletter at the bottom of his web site. http://technologyrescue.com steve is located in granite bay, california -- near sacramento. - phil i asked steve if it would be okay to forward the message below, and he said it would be fine. - Forwarded message from Steve Hargadon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 12:50:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve Hargadon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Two Great K12 Open Source Interviews from South Africa and Indiana To: "" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ~ Yesterday was a fun day! I started very early in order to be able to catch Hilton Theunissen in South Africa, who has led the tuXlab project to install Linux thin-client in 200 schools. Then late in the day Mike Huffman and Laura Taylor provided insight into the Indiana Affordable Classroom Computers for Every Secondary Student (ACCESS) program. (To download the mp3 or ogg files, go to http://www.K12OpenSource.com/Interviews.) These are both fascinating interviews, and along with the interview with the folks from Atlanta Public Schools last week, they are confirming a pattern that deserve some real exploration: high-priced, high-maintenance computers have led to relatively little actual student time in front of them (35 minutes a week per student in the case of Indiana, at a cost of $100 million a year!); low-cost computer solutions provide significantly more actual time in front of computers for students, and the result is dramatic engagement by students and teachers, and significant academic success (some measured and some expected). This is interesting to me, since I've lately been very aware that while the Windows, Linux, and Mac folks fight the battle of which OS is best, there is still a more fundamental and hotly-debated question with regard to computers in education: do they actually help students do better for all the money that is spent on them? What Atlanta and Indiana seem to show is that because it has been so costly to have computers in schools, they haven't been truly available enough for teachers or students to integrate their use into the curriculum. But in programs that are dedicated to cost-effectively getting the computers into the classrooms in sufficient quantity to impact education, the results are significant and exciting. And the "cost effective" part belongs to Linux and Open Source... This Thursday night (August 17), it's time to hear from "our favorite Moodler," Michelle Moore from remote-Learner.net. The one-hour interview will be broadcast live at 5:00 pm PDT / 8:00 pm EDT, and will also be available afterwards in recorded form. Links to join the live Skypecast, to leave questions, or to learn more are at www.K12OpenSource.com/Interviews. The following weeks I'll be interviewing Victoria Davis (Westwood Schools) and Adam Frey (Wikispaces) about Wikis, and Ruth Lutes and Ragavan Srinivasan (both from HP) about Open Source Licensing. To suggest future interview topics, or to contribute to the wiki, visit K12OpenSource.com. Today was also my first day flying solo--which included doing the sound editing and uploading... Wow! Hope you like them Best always, Steve Hargadon ~ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 916-791-2200 web: http://www.technologyrescue.com Forward email http://ui.constantcontact.com/sa/fwtf.jsp?m=1100563562866&ea=pshapiro%40his.com&a=1101374332170 Technology Rescue | 4350 Whispering Oaks Circle | Granite Bay | CA | 95746 - End forwarded message - -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] dell malaysia opens a computer center
hi DDN community -
it's great seeing dell involved in such outreach. (see below.)
Dell Opens First Learning Centre At Cerebral Palsy Centre
PENANG, August 11 (Bernama) -- Dell Malaysia opened its first "Dell Learning
Centre" at Penang' s Cerebral Palsy Children Associaton centre in line with its
commitment to make technology available to all by bridging the digital divide.
Its Asia operations vice-president Simon Wong said the computer company
allocated about RM120,000 to equip the centre with 20 high-end desktop
computers, an all-in-one photo printer, a laser network printer and three
touch-screen monitors.
Full news story at
http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v3/news_lite.php?id=213384
- phil
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[DDN] creative commons children's story in the news
hi Digital Divide Network community - the takoma gazette newspaper (in takoma park, maryland) has a very nice article this week about a collaborative storytelling project i've been involved with. see http://tinyurl.com/hujkn the article is about a rich media children's story that i've posted on the web at http://sammybook.blogspot.com if you know any storytelling enthuasists in the washington dc-area, do suggest that they stop by the takoma park maryland library to chat with me sometime. i work here mondays thru friday from noon to 6 pm. the address here is 101 philadelphia ave, takoma park, maryland 20912. (subway stop: Takoma, on the Red Line.) or people can send me an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject: storytelling - phil on the web site for the story at http://sammybook.blogspot.com you'll see that i list the Digital Divide Network as one of the communities i support. i'm hoping that might steer some web traffic to our community. for those who might be wondering, i created the story web site using the free blogger.com service, owned by google. when i need a quick, elegant web site, i set up another blog on blogger.com. it takes me about 2 minutes to do so. i currently have about 80 "blogs" on blogger.com (oops, i got a bit carried away, but the service is free and it suits my needs, so i use it. ) someday i'll teach myself web design using the free http://nvu.com program. until then, i'll be creatings "blogs" wholesale on blogger.com later in august i'll be submitting this rich media children's story to digg.com so that a wider group of people can learn about this project. if you don't yet have an account on digg, this is a good time to register for one. -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] rich media children's story
hi Digital Divide Network community - i recently finished work on a rich media children's story project which i'll be distributing for free on the web. this story has been translated into japanese and swedish already. i'm hoping to get it translated into more than 20 languages. for those who might be interested, the story can be found on the web via a link at http://sammybook.blogspot.com i used free software tools whenever possible in creating this flash file. - phil btw, i have a hunch this story is going to look and sound good on the rumored new ipod with 16 x 9 aspect ratio screen. sometimes you need to intersect the future before the future intersects you. -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
Re: [DDN] microsoft conspiracies
Quoting Stephen Snow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Phil, et. al., > > I wonder why, if microsoft has a hand in manipulating barnes & noble > offerings, so many LINUX books are available at B&N? Seems to me that would > be a much greater threat than openoffice. And what about PlayStation 2 tips > & tricks? The list actually could go on a bit. OpenOffice seems more like a > gnat to the Linux Africanized bee. In my opinion. > > Steve Snow steve, this is a good question. openoffice.org is a gateway drug. (in a good sense.) people who transition to openoffice.org on windows are far more likely to transition to openoffice.org on linux down the road. their main work app will have fit them like a glove by then -- and making the jump to linux would be far less intimidating. in the evolution of things, things evolve along certain predictable paths. in such cases, familiarity breeds attempt. - phil -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] user demand for openoffice 2.0 books
hi Digital Divide Network community - the most talented author of books about openoffice, solveig haughland, blogs that barnes and nobles is telling her publisher that there is no real demand for openoffice books and that they won't stock her excellent new openoffice 2.0 book. see http://openoffice.blogs.com/ microsoft in the past has resorted to all sorts of underhanded tactics. i don't know if they're resorting to paying barnes and noble to not stock openoffice.org books, but it would not surprise me if they were. you can do something about this if you live in the united states (or canada.) simply call your local barnes and noble bookstore and inquire if they sell any books about openoffice.org you can bet barnes and nobles keeps track of what books people are asking for. please don't call barnes and nobles unless you actually would buy an openoffice book. i'm not asking folks to create an artificial demand for the book. i'm just asking folks to speak up if this new openoffice.org book (and other openoffice.org books) are something you would want to see on a barnes and noble bookstore shelf. - phil Digg http://tinyurl.com/fknbx Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] video interview with paul lamb in san francisco area
hi Digital Divide Network - for those who might be interested, i've posted on the web a rosetimes video interview with paul lamb, a technology access activist in the san francico area. paul is the co-founder of a successful nonprofit organization named StreetTech. he also writes about digital divide topics for CNET and the San Francisco Chronicle. see http://rosetimes.com - phil earlier this week some friends and i tried creating some rosetimes with apple's final cut software. you can see a two minute full dv clip from our experiments at http://www.writersforliteracy.org/rosetimedv.mov this is a large file. (about 450 megabytes.) it looks and sounds pretty good. since this quicktime file does not have "fast start," you need to wait until it entirely transfers before you can view it. we created this video using final cut express 3 HD, the consumer version of apple's final cut software. i'm working on a feature length article about rosetimes for MAKE magazine. http://makezine.com i'll share further info about that article once i've sent it off to MAKE. -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
RE: [DDN] youtube web site serving 100 million videos per day
Quoting John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > What are the implications of Web 2.0, such as the YouTube site, on the > digital divide? hi john - thanks for asking. the rise of sites such as youtube are generally a good sign for greater community participation in media production. community video on the web follows in the footsteps of the blogging and podcasting movements. i follow news in the area of participatory media on the http://unmediated.org web site. anyone can submit news items to unmediated, too. if youtube is currently at 100 million videos viewed per day, how long will it take to reach the 1 billion videos viewed per day level? perhaps just another year. meanwhile, the rise of video on the web brings hope to the portability of learning, when it will be common for teachers to access educational videos from the web to distribute to their students. some of those students will view those videos on donated computers. some might use portable video viewing devices. it's hard to know where we'll end up with this, but it looks like we're heading in the right direction. - phil > > John T. Thompson, Ph.D. > Assistant Professor & Coordinator > Educational Computing Program > Computer Information Systems Dept. > Chase 208, Buffalo State College > 1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222 > (716) 878-3531 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.buffalostate.edu/depts/edcomputing/ > > "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most > intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." > ~ Charles Darwin > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Carvin > Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2006 2:28 PM > To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group > Subject: Re: [DDN] youtube web site serving 100 million videos per day > > The YouTube website says they serve 70 million a day, > so it's not too far off the mark. -ac > > --- Phil Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > hi Digital Divide Network community - > > > >this quote in the boston globe newspaper might > > possibly be off, but it's > > impressive all the same. even if youtube were > > serving 100 million videos per > > year, that would still be fairly noteworthy. > > > > http://tinyurl.com/l36ta > > > >- phil > > > > -- > > Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro > > http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com > > http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html > > > > "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates > > "Learning happens through gentleness." > > > > > > ___ > > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > > DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org > > > 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. > > > > > > Andy Carvin > andycarvin at yahoo com > www.andycarvin.com > www.pbs.org/learningnow > > ___ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org > 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. > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.1/389 - Release Date: 7/14/2006 > > > > ___ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org > 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. > -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] youtube web site serving 100 million videos per day
hi Digital Divide Network community - this quote in the boston globe newspaper might possibly be off, but it's impressive all the same. even if youtube were serving 100 million videos per year, that would still be fairly noteworthy. http://tinyurl.com/l36ta - phil -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] siobhan champ-black rosetime
hi Digital Divide Network community - i've uploaded to the web a rosetime (i.e. video interview) with DDN member siobhan champ-blackwell, from omaha, nebraska. siobhan is one of the most active members on the DDN list. this is an opportunity to meet her in person. i've created a link to her rosetime at http://rosetimes.com you can learn more about siobhan at her DDN profile http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/siobhanchamp-blackwell the above-mentioned interview is best viewed with a high speed internet connection. i did post a smaller file -- with a static graphics -- to give dial-up users a taste of what rosetimes are about. these quicktime videos are best viewed with firefox, safari, opera or camino web browsers. you might need to download quicktime (free) from http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download i've tested these rosetimes on linux systems and they play fine using mplayer on a fedora core 4 box. these video files also play fine on windows computers. - phil btw, on the right side of the rosetimes.com web site i've posted a link to some quicktime files explaining how anyone can create rosetimes using imovie and quicktime pro. i've also posted info on the kind of equipment needed to create rosetimes. i should point out that you don't even need a digital camcorder to create a good looking/sounding rosetime. as long as your camcorder has a microphone input jack, you have the tools need to create a rosetime. to show the potential of analog-shot video, here's some video i shot a couple years ago with a donated sony 8 mm camcorder. http://www.archive.org/details/juanwilliamsonmarshall if you shoot on analog video format, you do need to convert it to digital form to create a rosetime. that's not all that difficult these days. many digital camcorders can perform that function. perhaps you have a friend who owns a digital camcorder that you can use for the occasional video conversion. if there's anyone on this list who'd like to try creating a rosetime, kindly send me an email off-list with the subject: creating a rosetime -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] free wireless in moore county, north carolina
hi DDN community - a newspaper in moore county, north carolina, is offering free wireless internet for residents in southern moore county. http://thepilot.com/news/062806Internet.html here is the wikipedia entry for moore county, north carolina. http://tinyurl.com/qadox - phil -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] affordable housing for windows users
hi Digital Divide Network community - government is a little slow in the thinking department sometimes. see http://digg.com/apple/Affordable_Housing_for_Windows_Users do you have a digg account? thanks for digging if you do. - phil -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] commentary by paul lamb in the san fran. chronicle
hi DDN community - i found this commentary needed and engaging. http://digg.com/tech_news/From_Digital_Divide_to_Digital_Enlightenment paul lamb is a member of the DDN community and a Fellow at the Community Technology Foundation of California. - phil -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] community propagators in the Digital Divide Network community
hi DDN community -
as the DDN web site approaches 10,000 registered members, it might be useful
to assemble a list of community propagators -- those people within our community
who have brought more than 5 or more other persons to the community.
if you count yourself within that group, thanks for sending me an email
off-list with your name and the approximate number of people you've brought to
the Digital Divide Network in parentheses after your name.
i'll share that collected information back with the list.
- phil
kindly use the email subject "community propagator" when sending me email
off-list about this.
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[DDN] participatory culture foundation's new video player
hi DDN community - this new internet video player looks worthwhile. http://digg.com/software/Democracy_Player_is_new_baby_of_Open_Source_Internet_TV http://tinyurl.com/fzs6e - phil -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] registering for a digg account
hi Digital Divide Network community -
the community-controlled tech news web site named digg.com is now receiving
9 million site visits per day.
when news of the DDN community reaching its 10,000 registered member comes
out, we have the power within our community to propel that news to the front
page of digg. (it only takes about 50 diggs (i.e. votes of approval) within 24
hours for a submitted story to rise to the front page of digg.)
if you don't yet have a digg.com account yet, thanks for registering for
one today. your mouse click can propel our community forward.
if news about the DDN community reaches the front page of digg, then it
would be more likely that Wired magazine (or somesuch) might want to cover the
Digital Divide Network in an article.
that would be a needed (and important) step forward for the movement.
it would also be the catalyst in moving our community from 10,000 members to
100,000 members.
as my high school math teacher used to say with a wink when he handed
out exams, "remember, there is always strength in numbers." so true.
- phil
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[DDN] article - closing the digital divide in winnipeg (canada)
hi DDN community - this article caught my eye. thanks for forwarding it to anyone you know who might be interested in it. http://digg.com/technology/Closing_the_digital_divide_in_Winnipeg - phil -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] statistical milestones for DDN and moodle.org sites
hi Digital Divide Network community - the number of registered users on the DDN web site is getting close to 10,000. (9,934 as of sunday, june 18, 2006.) the DDN web site usually adds about 5 to 10 new people per day, so it looks like the 10,000 registered user milestone will be happening around july 1, 2006. in related news, the moodle.org web site blasted by the 100,000 registered users mark a month or two ago. back in febuary, 2006, there were 75,000 registered users on the moodle.org site. now that number stands at 115,000 users. see http://moodle.org/stats moodle is heading towards the million registered users mark -- and beyond. as a free distance learning tool, that's a big deal for those of us working to expand access to learning. if you value expanded access to education, stop by to register on the moodle web site. you'll be propelling that site towards the million registered users mark. - phil -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] clarity of voice at a major newspaper
hi Digital Divide Network community -
colbert i. king is a columnist at the washington post newspaper. year after
year he produces the most clear writing you have ever read. he is unsurpassed
by
any other newspaper writer in the nation.
his reprinted father's day comments are worth reading.
http://tinyurl.com/e6fr3
there's not a whole lot of hope for newspapers these days, but colbert i.
king is hope.
i hope colbert i. king takes a role in the reshaping of the washington
post. beyond doubt, he deserves to be that newspaper's editor-in-chief.
if he helps to bring citizen journalism to the washington post, that
newspapers nosediving fate might actually change. i'll let you know if i see
any indications of that.
- phil
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[DDN] public geek as a new job description
hi DDN community - naturally, i needed to share this news on digg. http://digg.com/technology/Public_Geek_Emerges_as_a_Job_Description http://tinyurl.com/hxefj - phil -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] bill gates transitions
hi DDN community - that's quite some news that bill gates will be stepping down from his full time job at microsoft. i was totally surprised to hear that he has also accepted an entry level position at red hat. considering the overwhelmingly dominant role microsoft has played in computers until this point, this might signal a turning point in the history of computing. with increasing diversity in operating systems and application software, new doorways of opportunity will open for those who previously have lacked access. new doorways will also be opening in the entrepreneurial realm as society moves away from the monolithic computing paradigms of the past. phil shapiro (only kidding about the entry level position at red hat.) -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] new job description - public geek
hi Digital Divide Network community - at the public library where i work i asked my supervisor if i could change my job title to "public geek." she's a geek herself and laughed approvingly at the suggestion. she then explained that it's a bit involved changing a job title when you work for a city government, but she said it would be fine if i described myself to the public (and co-workers) as the "public geek." i was hired with a different job title, but my responsibilities truly are those of a public geek, and so i say... i hold these geeks to be self-evident, that all geeks are created equal and that they are endowed by their creator with certain kinds of skills, and that they pursue curiosity in countless ways in order to better serve the public. and for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of our USB Flash drives, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor. phil shapiro, public geek takoma park maryland library (washington dc metropolitan area) -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] google sketchup for the mac has been released
hi Digital Divide Network people - google sketchup (the free 3D drawing program) has been released for macs. http://sketchup.google.com although google's sketchup site says that a 400 Mhz G4 Mac (or better) is required, this app runs fine on my iBook G3 (700 Mhz.) also, the google sketchup site says that mac os 10.4 is required. the installer for sketchup says that mac os 10.3 is required. since we dream in 3D, sketchup is a tool that lets us represent our dreams. - phil if you're new to sketchup, you might find this article useful. http://learningmoreaboutsketchup.blogspot.com sketchup is easy enough for first graders to use (it's being used in some first grade classrooms in north carolina) and is powerful enough to be used by colleges of architecture. -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] Nvu tutorials -- cleary written and comprehensive
hi Digital Divide Network community - these 5 tutorials on Nvu, the free cross platform web creation program, are clearly written and comprehensive. please direct interested youth and adults in your community to these tutorials. http://tinyurl.com/eug5t - phil if you have a digg.com account, thanks for digging (voting your approval) of this submitted story. if this story receives 50 (or more) diggs within a 24-hour period, it will rise to the front page of digg, where it will get seen by millions of people. we need more of our community members being empowered to build their own web sites using free software tools, and making their own media using free (and low-cost) software tools. when you empower someone to both design their own web site and create their own media, they will never think of themselves the same way again. we can and must drown out other media with the authentic voices of our community. -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] rosetimes -- online video interviews
hi Digital Divide Network community - the summer of 2004 saw the invention of podcasts, so i thought it might be fun to invent something for the summer of 2006. i'm a big fan of the charlie rose interview show on public television (here in the united states) and have been wondering if there is a way that anyone could interview anyone on the internet -- with crystal clear audio and video. "rosetimes" are video interviews that take place over the internet with a camcorder at each side. the resulting pristine videos can then be merged using apple's quicktime pro -- and hosted for free on the internet archive. (http://www.archive.org) unlike youtube.com and other recent video upstarts, the internet archive doesn't place a limit on the duration of the videos you upload. here are two sample rosetimes i've created to show what a rosetime looks like. one of these is a short interview with myself and the other is a book review where i appear in two videos on screen offering different points of view about the book. http://www.writersforliteracy.org/rosetimesselfinterview6.mov http://www.writersforliteracy.org/braillebookreview.mov these are not typical rosetimes. a typical rosetime would have two (or more) people talking to each other either in interview or discussion. the above two rostimes run well on linux, macintosh, and windows. (i tested these on a fedora core 4 box, running mplayer, at the public library where i work.) i designed the rosetimes above so that they run well on older computers, too, so you can view them on G3 macs running mac os 9. older macs can also be used for creating rosetimes. you might be able to run these on pentium 2 computers. the processing power needed to view these is not all that large. a pentium 2 with 266 MHz processor could probably do the trick. (thanks in advance to anyone on this list who can report back to the list about that.) i'll be releasing for free the instructions for making rosetimes. just wanted to give people on this list a heads up. a more formal announcement about rosetimes will be happening towards the end of june (or early july), after i've assembled a couple more actual rosetimes. you can likely create rosetimes on windows computers. i haven't tried yet. i'll be sharing info about that after i've given that a try. naturally, i'm very interested in the creation of rosetimes on linux systems. i'm hoping that rosetimes will be another tool that will bring greater participation in the marketplace of ideas. there are many excellent ideas out there that never see the light of day. i'm hoping that rosetimes will show those ideas the light of day, letting us all move forward with work that needs to get done. - phil if you know someone who ought to be on this email list, thanks for inviting them onto the list. we need their ideas, their energy, their momentum to build a more participatory society. people can easily join this email list when the register on the Digital Divide Network web site. -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] article - More People Read Blog than Many Newspapers
hi DDN community - the rise of blogs is now indisputable. will the power shift to grassroots media continue? for how long and in what ways? see http://tinyurl.com/hn2fl - phil -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] mark glaser on dsl and the digital divide
hi DDN community - mark glaser, a thoughtful commentator about participatory journalism, is blogging about the pricing of DSL and the digital divide, here in the united states. http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/ if you have thoughts on the topic, you can pitch in via the comments on his blog. mark reads his comments and often refers to them in his blog. i find him to be a top notch blogger. if you have filled in your Digital Divide Network profile, you can list that as your web site when leaving a comment on this site (or other sites.) that will help the DDN community achieve greater public visibility. here is a collection of some model DDN profiles to give you some ideas of what you can write in your DDN profile. http://www.his.com/pshapiro/ddnprofiles.html you can edit your DDN profile by clicking on Edit My Profile at the top left of the DDN web site. then click on the About Me tab. your profile can include links to articles you've written, multimedia you've made and even links to other DDN profiles. granted, it's not easy writing about oneself, but you bring real value to the DDN community when you fill in your DDN profile. we are as one only to the extent that we are as one. - phil mark glaser lives in san francisco, as i recall, so it's especially important for DDN members in the Bay Area to be pitching in with comments on mark's MediaShift blog. -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] olympus digital projector for $499
hi DDN community - this olympus projector being sold at a memorial day discount for $499 looks like it offers a lot. reading thru its features, i see it supports high-def video (1080i). http://tinyurl.com/k4ox6 1000 lumens is not immensely bright, but for $499, that's a nice projector. i wish the members of the DDN community outside of the united states would have access to such bargains, too. longer term we need to figure out a way to make that happen. - phil -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] article - camcorder reviewing expert still in college
hi Digital Divide Network community - this newspaper article about a talented young entrepreneur is very inspiring. http://csmonitor.com/2006/0329/p13s03-stct.html i wouldn't be surprised if robin liss joins the DDN community after her graduation from tufts university this year. it sounds like she is heading in the right direction. all these years i've been visiting the camcorderinfo.com web site and had no idea it was founded by a teen. even as a high school student, robin liss wrote camcorder reviews better than most video professionals. kudos to her for forging her own path. we could all learn a thing or two from her. - phil if robin liss started camcorderinfo.com in 1997 and she is now a graduating college senior, then she may well have started the business when she was in middle school. -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] connected with microsoft's unlimited potential initiative?
hi Digital Divide Network community - i'm curious to know if there is anyone on this list connected with microsoft's unlimited potential initiative? thanks for sending me an email off-list if you are. i'll share the total number of persons i hear from with the rest of the list. - phil http://www.microsoft.com/citizenship/giving/programs/up/ -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] upbeat education story in the los angeles times
hi Digital Divide Network community -
this upbeat education story in the Los Angeles Times is worth digging (if you
have a digg.com account.)
http://digg.com/science/Kids_who_Eat%2C_Drink%2C_Breathe_Science_
or
http://tinyurl.com/ly9vo
if a story submitted to digg receives 50 or more diggs (i.e. votes of
approval) within a 24 hour period, the story rises to the front page of digg
where several million people will see it.
digg.com is community controlled news. you and i are in charge of
digg. it's worth setting up an account there, if you haven't already.
- phil shapiro
to digg an item, click on the text "digg it" underneath the yellow number icon
to the left of the submitted news story. after you do so, the number of diggs
will increase by one.
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[DDN] DDN web community approaching the 10,000 member mark
hi Digital Divide Network community -
over the weekend, the DDN web site registered its 9,775th person --
Dr.S.S.D. Pandey.
see http://digitaldivide.net/profile/ssdpandey
that's some achievement to have gathered that many people together in
less than 2 years. (the DDN web site officially launched in january, 2005, if
memory serves.) kudos to andy carvin, cedar pruitt and all the current DDN
members for this accomplishment.
now that we're within striking range of the 10,000 member mark, thanks
for thinking about which colleagues you know to invite onto the site. i can
think of 3 people i recently met who would find this community interesting and
valuable. i'll be inviting all 3 to join.
- phil shapiro
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[DDN] micron's 8 megapixel sensor chip to be unveiled
hi Digital Divide Network community - this new 8 megapixel sensor chip looks like it might be useful. http://digg.com/hardware/Micron_to_Unveil_8_Megapixel_Sensor_Chip or http://tinyurl.com/qllao - phil -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] milwaukee schools to bring free wimax to students' homes
hi Digital Divide Network community - this news is encouraging -- especially for people doing computer refurbishing work in milwaukee, wisconsin. http://tinyurl.com/na44h - phil -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] Book tops charts before being published
hi Digital Divide Network community - here is another instance of the power of bloggers. the new book, "How Would a Patriot Act: Defending America from a President Run Amok," has risen to become the number one seller on Amazon.com -- before the book has been published. how? bloggers. http://digg.com/technology/Book_Tops_Charts_Before_it_s_Published_ http://tinyurl.com/g7zb6 - phil -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] computerworld magazine on microsoft's intimidation tactics
hi Digital Divide Network community - the editor in chief of computerworld magazine, don tennant, has a few choice words about microsoft's continued use of intimidation tactics. see http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=86 or http://tinyurl.com/oqull i attended both of the conferences that ralph nader organized regarding microsoft's anticompetitive practices, here in washington dc in the late 1990's. intimidation was the word used over and over again by people who were called to speak. a reporter from a newspaper in wisconsin testified that when she wrote an article that was not favorable to microsoft, the next day bill gates placed a phone call to the editorial board of the newspaper telling them to - "take care of this matter." she said in no other instance has a company ever called that newspaper's editorial board to threaten them. i prefer we as a community not launch into a long message thread regarding microsoft. those discussions have been hash and rehashed. we do need to focus our brainwidth on constructive work we can be doing in our communities. those of us working on access issues are naturally concerned when a company uses tactics to unfairly maintain its market share. if you want to learn more about microsoft's historical practices, ask around in geek circles you move in what views and perspectives people might have. you can learn a lot by listening. - phil shapiro for context on microsoft, there's probably no better book than Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire. http://tinyurl.com/fxq5c in that book you'll find out about the slogan "DOS ain't done until Lotus won't run" and other instructive matters regarding microsoft practices. this book was written by two Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporters. generally speaking, reporters tend to tell the truth. they become quickly former-reporters if they do anything else. -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] new article - "learning more about sketchup"
hi Digital Divide Network community -
i've been teaching myself about google's free sketchup 3D software. this
software is simply amazing.
so i've written up some notes about how people can go about learning more
about sketchup. i mention DDN towards the end of this article.
http://digg.com/design/Learning_More_About_SketchUp
if you support this kind of article, thanks for registering for a free
account on digg. if you do register on digg, thanks for sending me (off-list)
your digg screen name. i'd like to add you as a digg friend.
- phil
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[DDN] digital camcorder donation
hi Digital Divide Network community - some happy news to share. a digital camcorder has been donated to the DDN community for us to use in whatever way we please. this camcorder is a canon zr500. it comes with a lavalier (clip on) microphone. one possible use of this camcorder might be for interviews between DDN community members. such interviews could be conducted over the internet using the free gizmo internet phone service. with both people in the interview capturing their own video and audio, internet latencies become a non-issue. the two video files can be merged into a single quicktime file using quicktime pro (or final cut.) this kind of interview conducted over the internet has become commonly known as a rosetime, in honor of charlie rose, who conducts a popular interview program on public television, here in the united states. rosetimes can be uploaded for free to the internet archive, which provides free, permanent web hosting. (http://www.archive.org) here within the DDN community there is a treasure trove of interesting stories from members in our community. we're not going to wait around for anyone else to tell these stories. we're going to tell them ourselves. sorry i don't have some rosetimes to share with you today, but i hope to have a couple uploaded before the Beyond Broadcast conference in cambridge, mass., later this month. the rosetime genre owes its existence to the DDN community. some of the people involved in bringing this genre to life include - Daniel Bassill http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/dbassill1 Bonnie Bracey Sutton http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/bbracey Taran Rampersad http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Taran Felicia Sullivan http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Felicia Rich Jaeggi http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/rjaeggi Father Jeff Putthoff http://www.hopeworks.org Morgan Sulley http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/memeshift Nettrice Gaskins http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Nettrice Daniell Krawcyzk http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/daniell and of course, cedar pruitt and andy carvin, played an important role, too. some folks outside the DDN community who played a role in bringing rosetimes to life include - kenyatta cheese ryanne hodson jay dedman michael verdi steve garfield j.d. lasica dan gillmor hal cauthen brewster kahle for those of you who are new to the Digital Divide Network, here is a quick overview of some of the folks you might see in rosetimes in the coming months. http://www.his.com/~pshapiro/ddnprofiles.html if you're interested in appearing in a rosetime (or would like to volunteer time to conduct some), thanks for sending me an email with the word rosetime in the subject line. i'll be sending some follow-up emails explaining the process for creating rosetimes using imovie and quicktime pro. (quicktime pro sells for $30 from apple computer.) phil btw, if you're new to the Digital Divide Network and have not yet filled in your profile on the DDN web site, you bring value to the movement by doing so. since it is never easy to write about yourself, you might get some ideas from some of the existing profiles (above.) some of the most interesting ideas within the DDN community come from folks outside of the united states. it would be a good thing for the DDN community to find a way to get some digital camcorders to loan to people outside of the united states. if you're interested in helping with that, thanks for sending me an email with the subject: international -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] video blogging class overview
hi DDN community - for those who might be thinking about teaching a class on video blogging, appended below is an overview of a 4 session (4 times 1.5 hours) class i'm teaching on video blogging in takoma park, maryland. feel free to use this in whatever way helps you. the first session of the class went very well last night. here's a 20-second video we created for an imaginary product one of the students thought up -- "frozen lizard pops." as a group, we brainstormed what the text of this commercial and who in the group would be saying which parts of the text. http://www.writersforliteracy.org/videobloggingclass1.mp4 all of the students in this class were pretty astounded at the short amount of time between when we were brainstorming this commercial to when we were viewing it on the web. they left the class with a feeling of empowerment -- of possibilities. it was a fun class to teach. it's useful to note that i don't yet have a video blog myself. i have the component skills for creating a video blog, though. - phil Video Blogging Class Takoma Park Recreation Department Phil Shapiro, Instructor [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] What we'll be learning in this class - Some basics in shooting and editing video using free video editing software - iMovie (Macs) or Windows Movie Maker II (Windows XP.) How to export video to create video files that are viewable on the web. (MPEG-4 video format is the most recommend format. It is viewable by all computers - Windows, Macintosh and Linux.) How to upload your videos to the Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org) which provides free web hosting. How to set up your blog using Blogger.com (owned by Google.) Blogger is a free service used by millions. Connecting your blog with the video that you have uploaded. Telling people how they can subscribe to your video blog. (using iTunes or FireAnt) Resources - Video Blogging Tutorial http://www.freevlog.org Blogger (http://www.blogger.com) Cyberduck (free file transfer program for Mac OS X.) http://www.cyberduck.ch FileZilla (free file transfer program for Windows) http://www.apple.com/itunes http://fireant.tv In this class we'll also be covering which features to look for in a digital camcorder. * Microphone input jack. * 16 x 9 video format. We'll also talk about the possibilites of using your digital still camera for video blogging. (The Sony Cyber-shot digital cameras shoots nice video for putting on the web.) Sample videos to check out on the web. http://www.archive.org/details/juanwilliamsonmarshall Http://www.archive.org/details/multimediastorytelling http://www.archive.org/details/PhilShapiroMrCappucciTribute2 http://www.archive.org/details/woodyspeaks http://macpropodcast.com/ Can you create an audio podcast from the audio portion of your video blog? Most definitely yes. What is the Feedburner service and how do we use it? http://feedburner.com/ * Tips for publicizing your video blog. * Privacy concerns. Encouraging and managing your video blog public feedback. -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] using the internet for consumer advocacy
hi Digital Divide Network community - check out the way the internet can be used for consumer advocacy. http://digg.com/technology/When_Good_Phones_Go_Bad_2 - phil complacency is also an option. (though less effective.) -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] Drupalib: a place for library druplers
hi Digital Divide Network community - i first learned about drupal from DDN member taran rampersad. drupal is a very flexible and powerful free content management system (CMS.) see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drupal for those of you who work in libraries, here's a new web site for library people interested in use of drupal. this message below is from the web4lib email list. - phil Message: 13 Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 20:19:06 -0700 From: Mark Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Web4lib] Drupalib: a place for library druplers To: Web4Lib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hi, I've set up a website for people who are implementing, or who are considering implementing, the Drupal Content Management System in libraries. Drupalib (http://drupalib.interoperating.info/) is intended as a place for Drupal implementors to share ideas, configurations, themes, and maybe even to incubate the development of some modules that allow commonly desired functionality in library websites. It's based roughly on drupaled (http://drupaled.org/), and features a blog, a forum, and a listing of drupal sites implemented by libraries. Mark Mark Jordan Head of Library Systems W.A.C. Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada Phone (604) 291 5753 / Fax (604) 291 3023 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://www.sfu.ca/~mjordan/ -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] song composed as shoutback to new york times article
hi DDN community - over the weekend i composed this song (and created this multimedia) as a shoutback to last month's new york times article on the digital divide. http://digg.com/technology/New_York_Times_Reporter_Tipsy_on_Digital_Divide_Progress http://tinyurl.com/gahz5 i uploaded this multimedia to the internet archive, which provides free, permanent web hosting. - phil -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] wink 2.0 screencasting tool released
hi DDN community - the release of this free screencasting tool for windows (the linux version is coming in a month or two) is majorily good news for teachers, students and everyone else. thanks for sharing info about this with anyone you know who could benefit from it. http://digg.com/software/Wink_2_out_of_beta - phil -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] free wifi comes to portland, oregon
hi DDN community - this is wonderful news. portland, oregon, is getting free wifi for all its residents. 1 megabit downstream bandwidth. advertiser supported. http://digg.com/technology/Portland,_Free_Wireless,_and_Open_Source - phil this same bandwidth can be used to subscribe to podcasts and video blogs using free tools like itunes and fireant.tv. i wonder if any literacy organizations in portland might create rich media educational materials that anyone could have access to for free? distance learning possibilities using moodle (free, open source software) are also very ripe when everyone in the city gets free wireless internet. i asked the good god google to tell me who is doing computer refurbishing in portland. google pointed me to http://www.freegeek.org/ http://www.nwcgiving.org/ and i should mention that one of my favorite pacific northwest organizations, the RECA Foundation, is about 200 miles away in Kennewick, Washington. see http://www.cbpin.org/recycle.htm and http://www.digitaldivide.net/articles/view.php?ArticleID=48 -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] new article - RSS Explained
hi DDN community - grateful thanks to the many people who assisted with input for this article. thanks for sharing the article will people you know who might benefit from it. http://rssexplained.blogspot.com - phil for those who have a digg.com account, i've submitted this as a digg story at http://digg.com/technology/RSS_Explained_2 -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] article - San Fran. Wi-Fi a Dinosaur Deal for the Poor
hi DDN community - while i don't agree with this reporter's views in this article, i do think he has done good by getting us to think deeper about these things. http://digg.com/technology/San_Fran._Wi-Fi_a_Dinosaur_Deal_for_the_Poor - phil -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] "most blogged articles" on the new york times
hi DDN community - here's an opportunity for our community to provide feedback about articles in the new york times. the new redesign of the new york times web site has a feature which lists the 20 most blogged articles. http://www.nytimes.com/gst/mostblogged.html so if you have a blog, no matter what you write, if you link to a particular new york times article, the new york times will be aware of your blog entry. there is free blogging available right on the DDN web site http://www.digitaldivide.net -- or you can use many other free blogging services. blogger.com is one of the best. a good question to ask yourself is how much of your communication is "internal," directed to people who care about this issue in the same way you do. and how much of it is "external," visible to the general public? if your answer is that 100 percent of your communication is internal, then it's time for you to start blogging. we should all be shooting for a goal of at least 40 percent of our communication to be external. otherwise we'll end up doing what mike myers of saturday night live suggests - "talk among yourselves." - phil you can read what all DDN community members are blogging about on the DDN site by visiting http://www.digitaldivide.net/blogs/ -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://digg.com/users/pshapiro/submitted http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] do you have some views on last week's nyt article?
hi DDN members - do you have some views on last week's new york times article on the digital divide? you might want to share them in the comments at http://digg.com/technology/Digital_Divide_Closing_as_Blacks_Turn_to_Internet http://tinyurl.com/g4ern i'll be citing some of the comments on that digg.com item in my digital divide column on newsvine. it's time to take our conversations here public -- to a wider audience. - phil it's fine for you to list your digital divide network profile address at the end of your comments on digg.com. i.e. http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/bbracey that will help readers understand that you're talking about something you know about. -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://digg.com/users/pshapiro/submitted http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] ijacking on the rise
hi DDN community members - if you're thinking of using your new laptop in a public wireless location, keep in mind the issue of ijacking. see http://www.sfbg.com/40/25/news_ijacked.html - phil so for safety sake, please don't sit outdoors in a wireless zone with your new macbook pro. somebody walking by is surely going to say to themselves, "hey, i'd like one of those -- and there is no need to walk over to the store to get one." -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://digg.com/users/pshapiro/submitted http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] bogus new york times article
hi DDN community members - the new york times botched it on this article covering the digital divide. although they include a quote from andy carvin, the whole tenor of the article is off. they're asking the wrong question. they don't get it at all. http://digg.com/technology/Digital_Divide_Closing_as_Blacks_Turn_to_Internet http://tinyurl.com/g4ern - phil -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://digg.com/users/pshapiro/submitted http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] video - telling your multimedia story using free software
hi DDN community - for those who might be interested, i've posted on the web a video of a presentation i gave about telling your multimedia story on the web using free software tools. i used the free web hosting at the internet archive to distribute this video. (http://www.archive.org) see http://digg.com/technology/ Telling_Your_Multimedia_Story_Using_Free_Software_Tools or http://tinyurl.com/zxy6r - phil -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://digg.com/users/pshapiro/submitted http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] Time magazine going more digital
hi DDN community - the wall street journal reports that Time magazine, which prides itself on telling people things they already know (honestly, the editor of Time was on television saying that a year or two ago), is going more digital. "Time management has taken steps to dissolve the divisions between its Web and print operations. It has made selling ads online a priority and demanded that writers produce more copy for its Web sites. It is also expanding the sites to include more video, blogs and photographs." we can look forward to learning more about what we already know -- now in a more up-to-date way. - phil all kidding aside, this is a good development. any movement away from dead trees is a positive step. -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://digg.com/users/pshapiro/submitted http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] apple computer at 30 -- thinking back on the beginning
hi DDN community -
the washington post asked me for a quote about apple's 30th birthday, coming
up this saturday, april 1.
they may or may not end up using the quote. just wanted to share it here,
for what it's worth.
Apple Computer was founded by two idealistic people yearning to bring
computing out of big corporations and big government into the hands of ordinary
people. That spirit of popular empowerment is reawakened with the blogging and
podcasting phenomenon -- and with desktop video and music production, a tidal
wave of creativity has been unleashed. When a musician can publish their music
online for $15 -- without any royalties being received by middlemen, a great
step forward in civilization has occurred. (i.e. http://tunecore.com)
The dream, started so long ago, is materializing in ways undreamt of.
what i didn't say in the above quote is that my time is being spent more
and more with linux and other free software projects. i choose to use tools
that will bring the greatest empowerment to myself and my community.
can these two dreams co-exist? they can, for me. will there be a place for
microsoft in the future of computing? there might be. or there might not be. it
depends on whether the company is able to reinvent itself.
- phil
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[DDN] using squeet.com to support the digg submissions of friends
hi DDN community - when andy carvin submitted this story to digg.com a few minutes ago, i was alerted via email by a free service at http://squeet.com(see appended short email below.) last week i told squeet.com to send me an email from the rss feed of digg submissions by my digg.com friends. i copied and pasted the rss feed located at the bottom left of this web page. http://digg.com/users/pshapiro/friends/submitted it takes me just a second to digg (i.e. vote my approval of an story) by clicking on the number to the left of the story. if a story receives 50 or more diggs within a 12 hour period, it usually reaches the front page of digg.com, which gets 800,000 web sites visits per day. digg.com is growing like wildfire. i wouldn't be surprised if the site receives 5 million web sites visits per day by the end of this year. we can use our smarts to empower the technology access movement. we can place the issue of technology and educational access in the forefront of people's minds. we have the tools to do that. - phil - Forwarded message from "" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: 28 Mar 2006 10:27:18 -0700 From: "" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: items submitted by friends of pshapiro - Wikipedia Blocks School's Editing Privileges Due to Vandalism To: phil shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wikipedia Blocks School's Editing Privileges Due to Vandalism - Date: 3/28/2006 11:59 AM Link: http://digg.com/technology/Wikipedia_Blocks_School_s_Editing_Privileges_Due_to_Vandalism There's been so much talk among educators on whether Wikipedia should be banned from school, that it may come as a surprise to some that a school has actually been banned from Wikipedia. This raises questions as to why aren't more schools teaching students about using Wikipedia constructively. -- This email was sent to you based on your requested RSS feeds and schedule. To manage your Squeet account and subscriptions, visit http://www.Squeet.com Powered by Squeet.com. Read our blog at http://squeetblog.blogspot.com - End forwarded message - -- -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://digg.com/users/pshapiro/submitted http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] Tip About Using the Internet Archive's Free Web Hosting
hi DDN community members - here's a short news item i wrote for the monthly news of the virginia macintosh users group, a computer club i belong to here in the washington dc-area. http://www.vmug.org thought it might be of interest. - phil Tip About Using the Internet Archive's Free Web Hosting Do you have some videos you've created that you'd like to make available for the world to see? Do you own all the rights to the video? (i.e. Are the music and images in the video not copyright by someone else?) Then the free web hosting on the Internet Archive is a good choice. http://www.archive.org As an example, here is a 52-minute (400 megabyte) QuickTime file that VMUG member Phil Shapiro recently uploaded to the Internet Archive. To view this video, click on the word QuickTime in blue on the left of your screen. http://www.archive.org/details/multimediastorytelling QuickTimes are best viewed using Safari or Firefox. Internet Explorer sometimes makes you wait for the QuickTime to completely transfer before you can start watching it. Phil used Cyberduck to do the uploading. http://cyberduck.ch/ Cyberduck is a free download. You can make a donation to the creators of Cyberduck if you find the program useful. Using a cable modem, this 52-minute video took about 3 hours to upload to the Internet Archive. If you have Verizon's fiber optic service, you could probably upload this video in about an hour (or less.) Using a dual-processor G5 PowerMac, this video took about 40 minutes to export from iMovie, using Share on the File menu. All this is to say that it's entirely possible to shoot a video, edit it and upload it to the Internet Archive all on the same day. It takes about a day for the Internet Archive to release videos that have been uploaded. You can always go back and edit the description of the video from a link at the bottom left of the screen describing your video -- after you are logged in to the Internet Archive. Phil missed seeing that link and added a public comment to his video to add some extra information he forgot to include. If you have ideas for some group video projects that VMUG members can work on, you might bring them to the VMUG Multimedia special interest group (SIG.) See the Multimedia SIG blog for further information. http://web.mac.com/haly2k1/iWeb/Site/Blog/Blog.html Are you curious to learn a bit more about Brewster Kahle, the visionary who created the Internet Archive? Search for his name in the Internet Archive. You can view a video of a speech he gave at the Library of Congress in December, 2004. (Scroll down about 5 items in the search results.) If Brewster Kahle has given the world this immense gift, what's the most appropriate way of thanking him? Use the gift. -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://digg.com/users/pshapiro/submitted http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] review of terry white's training dvd submitted to digg.com
hi DDN community members -
here's a review of terry white's mac os x training dvd that i've
submitted to digg.com. thanks for giving terry a mouse-clicked support by
digging it. (you digg (i.e. vote your approval) of an item by clicking on the
number to the left of the item.)
http://digg.com/apple/A_Review_of_Terry_White_s_Mac_OS_X_Training_DVD_
- phil
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[DDN] denver public library's downloadable eflicks
hi DDN community - in a new outreach initiative to bring documentaries and other videos to some, but not others, the denver public library is now providing downloadable videos in windows media format. these files play on windows computers, but not linux or macintosh computers. http://downloadmedia.denverlibrary.org/ is this progress? one step forward, two steps back. - phil -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://digg.com/users/pshapiro/submitted http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] article - Switching Art Students to GNU/Linux
hi DDN community - i found this article interesting. bold. timely. http://digg.com/linux_unix/Switching_art_students_to_GNU_Linux - phil -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://digg.com/users/pshapiro/submitted http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] logic puzzles on a windows citrix server
hi DDN community -
the public access linux computer center where i work (in takoma park,
maryland) now has the citrix client installed, so we're able to run windows
programs from a citrix server.
in case there is anyone on this list with access to a citrix server, i'd
love to make the "simple sokomind" puzzles i helped design available to users on
these linux computers.
the sokomind logic puzzles run well under windows 98, windows 2000 and
windows xp. they are freely distributable. i designed the simplified puzzles.
a talented programmer in germany designed the free sokomind logic puzzle
software. the puzzles i designed are also distributed for free.
further info (including narrated screencast) can be found
at http://simplesokomind.blogspot.com
thanks in advance if anyone is able to help with this.
- phil
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[DDN] news article - missouri computer refurbishing project
for those who might be interested... http://digg.com/technology/Missouri_Refurbished_Computer_Program_Lessens_the_Digital_Divide#c1260301 http://tinyurl.com/lot3b - phil -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/pshapiro http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom begins with wonder." - Socrates ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] new study - digital culture important for personal growth
hi Digital Divide Network community - this new study might be helpful to cite in grant proposals. http://digg.com/technology/Digital_Culture_Important_for_Personal_Growth - phil -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://digg.com/users/pshapiro/submitted http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] telling your multimedia story (2)
hi DDN people in the washington DC-area - barbara conn, who runs the Capital PC User Group Entrepreneours and Consultants special interest group, tells me that if you're planning to attend saturday's presentation at the cleveland park library you can register by sending her an email with your name and email address. her email is [EMAIL PROTECTED] this event is free and open to the public. it's been my experience that some very smart folks show up to these meetings. if you're planning to attend, you might want to bring your business card with you. after the meeting there is a socializing/networking opportunity at a restaurant across the street from the cleveland park library. - phil if you have a laptop from the past 3 years, you might want to bring it to this meeting so we can have a backup laptop for the presentation. we already have a laptop and projector, but you know the way technology sometimes can be. -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://digg.com/users/pshapiro/submitted http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] multimedia storytelling presentation - washington dc
hi DDN community members in the washington dc area - this saturday afternoon i'll be presenting at the Capital PC User Group Entrepreneurs and Consultants meeting, at the cleveland park public library, in DC. (1.5 blocks south of the cleveland park subway stop.) this meeting is free and open to the public. further info at http://www.cpcug.org/user/entrepreneur/306meet.html time has been scheduled for attendees to share info and ideas about multimedia storytelling and free software. thanks for passing along word about this to those you know who might want to attend. - phil although the meeting is free and open to the public, it's helpful to CPCUG if you register at http://www.cpcug.org/user/entrepreneur/meet-reg.html -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://digg.com/users/pshapiro/submitted http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] PC Magazine reviews $159 Linspire computer
and gives this computer a general thumbs up. see http://digg.com/linux_unix/PC_Magazine_Reviews_$159_Linspire_Computer - phil fry's electronics has stores in northern california, southern california, texas, and a few stores in arizona, georgia, illinois, indiana, nevada, oregon, and washington. i don't think fry's sells mail order, though. see http://www.frys.com it's useful to note that the fry's electronics store in renton, washington, is 14 miles south of microsoft's offices in redmond, washington. rook to queen 5. -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://digg.com/users/pshapiro/submitted http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] mention of DDN in the los angeles times
hi DDN community - there's a nice, brief mention of the digital divide network at the end of this article in the los angeles times today. free software enthusiast lou dolinar is the author of the article -- which originally appeared in the newspaper titled newsday. >From Newsday Lou Dolinar: Portable apps get a thumbs-up March 5, 2006 Way back in 1981, I bought my first computer, an Osborne I "portable" that tipped the scales at 26.2 pounds and had a 3.5-inch-wide monitor, a 4-megahertz processor, and in the absence of a hard drive, a pair of 5 1/4-inch removable floppy drives (snip) Meanwhile, about that paradigm thing: Haller points out that outfits such as the Digital Divide network (www.digital divide.net) are trying to spread computer literacy worldwide, even as hoped-for $300 PCs still are out of range of much of the world's population. "Why can't we have one or two computers configured centrally, that everyone can use, and give everyone a thumb drive for $10?" he asks. Full article at http://tinyurl.com/rkh44 -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://digg.com/users/pshapiro/submitted http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] article - wi-fi deal in philly is done
hi DDN community this is some good news... http://digg.com/technology/Philly_wi-fi_deal_is_done_ "Neff told Council members that the Internet service will be anywhere from 25 percent to 50 percent cheaper than private- sector competitors. Part of the deal requires Earthlink to provide computers and training to 10,000 low-income families as part of an effort to bridge the so-called "digital divide." She said the entire program would be no cost to city taxpayers, though the city loaned $750,000 to the nonprofit Wireless Philadelphia, the entity created by the Street administration to oversee the WiFi plan." -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://digg.com/users/pshapiro/submitted http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] article - "can you digg what is happening to journalism?"
hi DDN community - noted journalist and blogger jeff jarvis has an upbeat take on what digg.com is bringing to journalism. http://digg.com/users/pshapiro/submitted - phil -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://digg.com/users/pshapiro/submitted http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] why libraries are magical places
Womans Day magazine wants to learn how the library has changed lives. The magazine announced the editorial initiative in its March 7 issue, which reached subscribers last week. In the issue, the magazine declares that libraries are magical places and asks readers to submit their stories in 700 words or less. Stories can be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] from now until May 10, 2006, when the promotion closes. thanks for spreading the word about this. i expect that woman's day magazine might collect all submissions together on a web page. - phil here's a submission i sent - http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/pshapiro/view?PostID=11434 thanks are owed to technology access advocate siobhan champ-blackwell for bringing this opportunity to our attention. http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/siobhanchamp-blackwell -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://digg.com/users/pshapiro/submitted http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] intel to fund technology training center in gaza
hi DDN community - here is some encouraging news. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060220/ap_on_hi_te/intel_gaza this kind of initiative in gaza is long overdue, - phil -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://digg.com/users/pshapiro/submitted http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] article - "for web page editors, Nvu is the ticket"
hi DDN community - there is a really nice article in Newsday about the free, open source Nvu web page building program. see http://digg.com/technology/For_Web_Editors,_Nvu_is_the_Ticket you've heard of citizen journalists? welcome to journalist citizens. - phil -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/pshapiro http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] Denver Public Library to Offer Video Downloads
hi DDN community - this is an encouraging development. we'll be seeing a lot more of this kind of thing. plan for it. http://digg.com/technology/Denver_Public_Library_to_Offer_Video_Downloads - phil -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/pshapiro http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
Re: [DDN] My interview with NetSquared
hi DDN community - this interview with andy carvin has some excellent commentary in it. kudos to marshall kirkpatrick (and andy) for assembling so many probing thoughts in one interview. i love the part of the interview when andy admits he's not a techie. perhaps he's not a computer programmer, but he sure is strongly talented with technology tools. the point is well made that there are ample opportunities for people to be creative and advanced users of technology -- without being a technical expert themselves. it's the usage of the tools that matter. - phil > Hi everyone, > > Please excuse the shameless self-promotion , but blogger Marshall > Kirkpatrick has just published an interview with me on the NetSquared > blog. The interview, which was conducted a few days ago via instant > messaging, covers a whole range of issues, including the debate over > mobile phones vs. laptops in the developing world; the Digital Divide > Network; blogging and disaster response; video blogging; and my upcoming > book on the telecentre movement, among other topics. > > http://netsquared.org/carvin1 > > thanks, > andy > > -- > -- > Andy Carvin > acarvin (at) edc . org > andycarvin (at) yahoo . com > > http://www.digitaldivide.net > http://www.andycarvin.com > -- > ___ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org > 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. > -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/pshapiro http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] sarasota county, florida, computer refurbishing teacher
hi DDN community - this well-written article about a southwest florida educator doesn't mention the wonderful computer refurbishers email list run by jim lynch from CompuMentor, the DDN community, TechSoup, CTCNet or any such resources. journalists don't see their duty to connect the local to the national. also, why should a journalist do extra research about such stuff? it's tough enough trying to meet deadline. is the deadline the problem? i see the deadline as the problem. and that journalists/newspapers don't really care to place their news within context other than the subject standing in front of their horse blinders. we've got to expect more. - phil Article published Feb 13, 2006 Bridging the digital divide a PC at a time Program helps needy students achieve with free home computers By Markeshia Ricks SARASOTA COUNTY -- Ron Zimmerman has learned to work fast when he has students eagerly waiting to use the computer he's installing. Earlier this week, Alta Vista Elementary School students Tiana and Yalexi Perez couldn't contain themselves as he worked. "Can we use it now?" 8-year-old Tiana asked. "I've got to get my math scores up for FCAT." It's exactly what Zimmerman wants to hear. As the coordinator of a program that provides computers to students who can't afford them, he's hoping to bridge the digital divide and close the student achievement gap one computer at a time. "Those kids that can afford computers are lucky because a computer is such a dynamic learning tool," he said. "I would love to see every kid have one." As a technology teacher at Bay Haven School of Basics Plus, Zimmerman found that students continued to learn and retain more if they had computer access at home. Those students who didn't often fell behind. http://tinyurl.com/d2z6o -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/pshapiro http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] search engine incentives - the skit
hi DDN community -
both yahoo and msn recently announced that they are exploring financial
incentives to get people to use their search engines. that news spawned this
parody skit and song.
http://searchengineincentives.blogspot.com/
note the way this parody shows up as one of the technorati links
adjacent to the web version of the washington post article. (click on the link
"Full List of Blogs.")
the way to get your blog entry to show up adjacent to a washington post
article is to "claim" your blog at technorati.com. (it's free to "claim" your
blog.)
i use a free sitemeter counter at the bottom of this web site to track
who is sending the most web traffic to this site --
the washington post? (probably not. old media is withering away)
macnn.com (perhaps -- if they mention the skit)
instapundit.com (a lot, if he decides to mention it)
scripting.com (a lot, if he decides to mention it)
boingboing.net (a lot, if they decide to mention it.)
digg.com (probably some. possibly a lot if the skit makes
it to the front page of digg.)
email forwarding -- you can never underestimate the grapevine effect
if you'd like to digg (i.e. vote your approval) of this skit,
you can do so at http://digg.com/users/pshapiro/submitted
you know, major corporations really ought to check with web satirists
before rolling out new initiatives. they would save themselves a lot of trouble
if they did. satirists would be only too happy to give them a thumbs up or
thumbs down -- to better guide the direction their corporation is going in. :-)
- phil
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[DDN] mobile journalists in ft. meyers, florida
hi DDN community - some encouraging news from ft. myers, florida.. http://www.gannett.com/go/newswatch/2006/february/nw0210-2.htm "The News-Press at Fort Myers' new neighborhood online publishing model, "Your Community: By you, for you," won the first-place Online: Moments of Life category in the fourth-quarter 2005 Well Done contest. Content for two community sites are fed by reporters called "mojos" or mobile journalists who carry digital cameras, MP3 recorders and wireless laptops. Their mission is to find and tell stories that don't make it into the typical newspaper and to train members of the community to file directly to the Web site. NEWS WATCH asked Executive Editor Kate Marymont to provide a behind-the-scenes look at how the "mojo" project works." - phil -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/pshapiro http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] article about taking cleveland towards open source
hi DDN community - bill callahan has written a thoughtful article about moving cleveland, ohio, towards open source. i submitted the article to digg.com (and slashdot) a minute ago. if you have a digg.com account, thanks for digging this. http://digg.com/users/pshapiro/submitted bill callahan is the director of cleveland digital vision. http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/bilcal - phil digg.com submission: Bill Callahan, who has won national recognitions for his community service work in Cleveland, pleads Cleveland institutions to move towards open source. "This Microsoft fixation automatically adds millions of dollars to the cost of bringing Clevelanders across the digital divide. We cant afford it, and we dont have to." -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/pshapiro http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] digg.com at 130 million page views per day
hi DDN community -
the community-edited tech news web site named digg.com is now getting 130
million page views per day. a new version of the web site is going to be
launched soon that will extend the scope of the news beyond tech news to any
kind of news. i predict it won't be too long before digg.com gets a billion page
views per day.
so if you submitted a story to digg.com and the story was dugg (i.e.
community voted) to the front page of digg.com, you would have a lot of folks
seeing that story. you might potentially have more than a million persons visit
the web site listed in the story -- whether that site is connected with your
work or not.
see http://www.publish.com/article2/0,1895,1918172,00.asp
for further info on this.
if you'd like to keep track of digg's continued rise, use google alerts to
send you an alert once a day with links to news articles mentioning digg.
http://google.com/alerts
yes, digg.com's success will force old media (i.e. newspapers) to quickly
find ways of having more community partipication. if they don't, their
precipitous decline will continue.
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[DDN] western union ends telegraph service
hi DDN community - western's union telegraph service ended this week -- after 145 years of continuous use. a precursor to the modern internet, telegraph service allowed rapid communication over long distances. to help future historians understand the telegraph, i've written a short reading passage covering most of what they need to know. The Invention of the Telegraph So like the telegraph was invented in 1844 by Samuel Morse so that he could IM with his friends. So he would like telegraph things like, "What hath God wrought. brb." His friends would telegraph back, "u r the gr8test!! LOL" Samuel Morse would then telegraph back, "BCNU CUL8R GTR. Telegraph rocks, IMHO." (Be seeing you. See you later. Got to run.) Samuel Morse's parents used to limit the amount of time he could telegraph with friends. He was only allowed to telegraph with them after he had finished his homework. On January 27, 2006, Western Union discontinued the telegraph service that they had been offering for 145 years. The press release for this announcement said simply: Telegraph service just ended, OMG. TTFN. TAFN. (Oh my gosh. Ta ta for now. That's all for now.) See also http://www.livescience.com/technology/060131_western_union.html -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/pshapiro http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
RE: [DDN] article in progress - "what is rss and how will itbenefit me?"
Quoting Malin Coleridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > My organization has an article on this topic. > > http://www.techsoup.org/howto/articles/internet/page1643.cfm?show=list&sort=first?cg=searchterms&sg=RSS > thanks, malin. marnie does a great job with her explaining. i'll be linking to this article from the article i write. - phil > Malin Coleridge > Business Analyst > TechSoup.org > (a program of CompuMentor) > Tel: (415) 633-9346 > Fax: (415) 512-9400 > > http://www.techsoup.org > http://www.compumentor.org > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Katy Pearce > Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 8:45 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [DDN] article in progress - "what is rss and how will itbenefit > me?" > > Oddly enough, I blogged about this today: > > http://youngcaucasus.neweurasia.net/?p=30 > > This was specifically written for non-native English speaking teenagers > with limited tech backgrounds. It is about as basic as it gets. > > Cheers, > Katy > > Quoting Claude Almansi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > Phil Shapiro wrote: > >> hi DDN community - > >> i'm working on a new article that explains what RSS is and > >> how it benefits > >> people. the beginning of the article appears at > >> http://whatisrss.blogspot.com/ > >> > >> i have some ideas of what i'll be including in this article > >> next, but i > >> need help getting more examples of how RSS brings benefits into > >> peoples' lives. > >> > >>if you can think of some examples of how you or others use > >> RSS, thanks > >> for sending them over this way. the more examples i can assemble, the > more > >> people will be able to understand what RSS is about.the > >> article i'm assembling is in the public domain and will be freely > >> redistributable for any purpose -- including reprinting in > >> newsletters, etc. thanks in advance. > >> > >> phil shapiro > >> washington dc > >> > > > > Hi Phil > > > > I don't know if meant "sending ideas this way" to you personally or > > to the DDN list, but I believe it would make an interesting > > discussion topic, because: > > > > I first heard of RSS on the DDN discussion list: you, Andy, Taran, > > other tech-minded people posted about it. As usual, I was slow on the > > uptake, only realizing after half a dozen messages that wow, this ws > > really something revolutionary and I'd better make an effort to > > understand what it would change and how. > > > > Then I tried to bring the concept home to the other people at ADISI > > www.adisi.ch: we are meant to concentrate on the divulgation of > > "cyberlaw" issues, but in a way, cyberlaw is not autonomous, it's > > about how to apply law to things happening in the cyberworld. And > > really simple syndication is certainly something big happening in > > the cyberworld, with legal conundrums attached. About authorship and > > authors' rights, for instance. > > > > One problem in trying to make the others at ADISI understand the > > momentous importance of RSS was language: the vivid experiences > > exchanged on the DDN list were in English, and English is the 3rd or > > 4th language for the members of the ADISI committe (Italian native, > > then French, German). > > > > To overcome this language barrier, with Mahdi Mezher, the IT pro at > > ADISI, I wrote a blog entry on 11/9/04, "Firefox 1.0 è uscito oggi. > > Novità: il "newsreader incorporato"" (Firefox 1.0. came out today. > > New feature: embedded newsreader" > > <http://adisi.livejournal.com/20329.html>, about live bookmarks in > > Firefox. The others politely said it was very interesting, - staring > > blankly. But OK, the started using the live bookmarks in Firefox and > > bagan to get interested. > > > > So I made www.bloglines.com/public/adisi, and the others seemed a bit > > more impressed, being able to view all those dynamic sites in real > > time and in one page (I must confess that I only just understood what > > the clip blog that goes with it, http://www.bloglines.com/blog/ADISI, > > is about and how it works). > > > > And then you tech-aware people at DDN moved on to podcasts. It was > > damned thrilling, but I
[DDN] article - Words Alone Cannot Describe GarageBand
hi DDN community - for those who might be interested, here's a new article i wrote. http://wordsalonecannotdescribe.blogspot.com/ garageband is the free music composition software that ships with new macs. i've just recently come to learn how incredible this software is. - phil -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/pshapiro http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] article in progress - "what is rss and how will it benefit me?"
hi DDN community - i'm working on a new article that explains what RSS is and how it benefits people. the beginning of the article appears at http://whatisrss.blogspot.com/ i have some ideas of what i'll be including in this article next, but i need help getting more examples of how RSS brings benefits into peoples' lives. if you can think of some examples of how you or others use RSS, thanks for sending them over this way. the more examples i can assemble, the more people will be able to understand what RSS is about. the article i'm assembling is in the public domain and will be freely redistributable for any purpose -- including reprinting in newsletters, etc. thanks in advance. phil shapiro washington dc -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/pshapiro http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] wireless internet success in rural colorado
hi DDN community - this is a nice tale of two people who took matters into their own hands to bring high-speed wireless internet to their rural town in colorado. other rural communities can be heartened by this kind of success. - phil Residents hook up to high speed ZIRKEL Wireless zooms past other Internet service providers By Alexis DeLaCruz Sunday, January 29, 2006 OAK CREEK Five years ago, Alan Belvo and his friend Sean Haskett got sick of waiting for their slow dial-up Internet connection and began researching what they could do about it. To remedy their frustrations with their outdated Internet connection, they started their own company. Now, Belvo and Haskett are expanding the high-speed Internet business, ZIRKEL Wireless, to reach as far as Yampa. "The idea for us is to get as many people out here in (South Routt) hooked up with high-speed as possible," Belvo said. ZIRKEL Wireless this month installed three new antenna sites in the county, two of which are in South Routt. Belvo said one of the antenna sites is on the historic Oak Creek water tower. Another site is about 30 miles away on a hillside outside of Phippsburg. By adding the new sites, Belvo said he has been able to "bridge the digital divide by bringing South Routt residents and businesses affordable high-speed Internet." (snip) Full story at http://www.steamboatpilot.com/section/southroutt/story/35175 -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/pshapiro http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom begins with wonder." - Socrates ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] digg.com as a tool for technology access activists
hi DDN community -
for those who might not know, the rapidly growing web site named digg.com
could end up being a very useful tool for those of us working on technology
access issues.
i'd like to keep track of those of us within the DDN community who have
registered on digg.com
if you have registered for an account there (it's free), thanks for
letting me know off-list.
i'll be writing an article about digg.com sometime soon -- and may also be
creating one or more screencasts about digg.com to help people learn how this
web site works.
- phil
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[DDN] oakland county, michigan, free wireless pilot starts in march
Pilot Oakland cities going wireless soon By Catherine Kavanaugh Daily Tribune Staff Writer Computer users in seven cities will be able to unplug their equipment and still access the Internet for free when Wireless Oakland comes to their towns with a target start-up time in March, 2006. In Royal Oak, the service first will be offered in the area bounded by Woodward Avenue, I-696, I-75 and 12 Mile Road and then branch out to the rest of city, according to Interim City Attorney David Gillam. Royal Oak is one of seven pilot cities along with Troy, Madison Heights, Oak Park, Birmingham, Pontiac and Wixom. Eventually, all 910 square miles of Oakland County will go wireless. (snip) http://www.dailytribune.com/stories/012506/loc_wireless25001.shtml -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/pshapiro http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] fireant video distribution/receiving software
hi DDN community - the latest version of fireant (for mac and windows) was released yesterday. this is very interesting free software. it's still in beta, but is well worth trying. if you have a digg.com account, you can digg (vote your approval) of it at http://digg.com/software/New_BitTorrent_Client_for_OS_10_and_Windows the digg story includes a link to fireant at http://fireant.tv - phil -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/pshapiro http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] article - Paper lets readers choose front page stories
Paper lets readers choose front page stories Wisconsin's second-largest newspaper is letting readers help decide what to put on the front page. In an experiment designed to boost reader interest, the Wisconsin State Journal allows readers to go on its website every weekday from 11am to 4pm and vote for their favourite out of five story ideas. Barring late-breaking news, the winning story typically will appear on Page 1 the next day. (snip) http://www.smh.com.au/news/breaking/paper-lets-readers-choose-front-page-stories/2006/01/25/1138066828782.html# http://tinyurl.com/8ztu6 (my take -- this is a step in the right direction, but not a very deep step. in some ways a superficial step.) -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/pshapiro http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] skit - news thump
hi DDN community -
for those who might be interested, i've written a short skit about old
media, new media and the changing role of community participation in the media.
the title of the skit is "News Thump."
see http://digg.com/users/pshapiro/submitted
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[DDN] article - when granny got on lsd
hi DDN community -
here's an article i wrote that explains about getting a mac os 9 computer to
work with verizon's dsl service. i worry about other families that have the
need to do this, but don't have the technical expertise. we must create social
institutions so that people are not on their own in getting these things done.
as you'll see, i wrote this article tongue-in-cheek, but i tried to include
as much practical info as i could.
see http://digg.com/users/pshapiro/submitted
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[DDN] article - Church partnership provides gift of computers
Article from the Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. Church partnership provides gift of computers By Elisabeth Enloe -The News staff writer Kendal Morris has three older brothers at home and was tired of fighting for her share of time on the family computer. Enough was enough and it was time she had a computer of her own. So when the 11-year-old Stephen F. Austin Middle School student first heard about the St. Paul United Methodist Church Computer Program, an opportunity for her to earn a computer through community service and a commitment to her education, she couldn't wait to get home and tell her mother about it. When she first came home and told me about it I thought she was mistaken, Sherri Morris, a 46-year-old elementary school teacher, said. But she was really persistent and it was something she has wanted for a really long time. Her persistence included digging through the trash after her application materials were thrown out alongside Hurricane Rita debris. The Morris' were among more than 30 families gathered at St. Paul United Methodist Church on Texas Avenue Saturday to take a computer orientation class and then pick up a computer of their own to take home. (snip) Full article at http://www.panews.com/articles/2006/01/22/news/01news.prt -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/pshapiro http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
[DDN] imovie 2 books available for .25 cents on amazon.com
hi DDN community - i'm giving some advice and guidance to a youth media project in takoma park, maryland. this project has a volunteer from maryland public television who teaching the youth video production. this volunteer knows a lot about professional video production using AVID. i need him to get up to speed quickly on apple's imovie software -- both the older version (imovie 2) and the newer version (imovie hd.) i couldn't find any books about imovie 2 in local public libraries, so i went looking on amazon.com sure enough, there are lots of individuals and vendors selling copies of imovie 2 books. i bought the book "imovie2: the missing manual" for 25 cents -- and $3.50 shipping. the price for buying this book is less than the late fees i would incur if i signed the book out of a library. - phil -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/pshapiro http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
