[DDN] ANN: Empowering Local Communities Through ICT

2005-04-23 Thread Barbara Fillip
Empowering Local Communities and Improving Local Government through ICT JOIN THE ONLINE DISCUSSION May 2 - May 27, 2005 ICT can contribute to fostering empowerment and participation and making government processes more efficient and transparent by encouraging communication and

Re: [DDN] GETS NUDGE FOR IT'S SUCCESS!

2005-04-23 Thread Sandra Latherbenson
I have been observing the DDN as a member since 3-19-05, You are doing a great job of bringing together and creating a forum for professionals at all levels in their careers. The opportunity for dialog between technical and non-technical internet professionals as well as educators,

Re: [DDN] FW When iPod goes collegiate

2005-04-23 Thread Steven Wagenseil
Claude: Re the comment about intellectual property theft (which is what is meant when talking about a professor's lectures being available on the Internet: I am no expert (my teenage son might be, but not moi...) but I don't think it's possible to record speech directly onto an iPod, is it? I

Re: [DDN] Current browser standards for international audiences

2005-04-23 Thread Life in Hackney
I cant let this pass. You are totally missing the point. Ordinary users, which is what the digital divide is about - not the techies or the faddists who have time to twiddle and experiment with things - just want a tool that works. If a user Netscape 4 goes to a web page that doesn't display

Re: [DDN] Current browser standards for international audiences

2005-04-23 Thread Todd Seal
I am very familiar with the W3C, but what does that have to do with anything? Is it too much to ask that folk with older browsers simply turn off style sheets? We want to cross the digital divide, right? It's frustrating to surf on an older computer because sites are all messed up and content

Re: [DDN] Current browser standards for international audiences

2005-04-23 Thread J Cravens
There's no Sign In button to press, but enter your username and password, then press Enter on the keyboard, and you're logged in. Nope. It does not work. I assure you, I have tried repeatedly. I have tried creating new accounts. It does NOT work on my machine, not with any of the three

Re: [DDN] GETS NUDGE FOR IT'S SUCCESS!

2005-04-23 Thread Andy Carvin
Actually, most of the credit should actually go to Cedar Pruitt, editor of DDN. While I manage the email list, she manages the website, and has led the way in growing the site. Meanwhile, additional credit has to go to all of you who contribute to the site; since most of the content is posted

[DDN] Announcing GenARDIS 2005 winners

2005-04-23 Thread Dorothy Okello
Gender and Agriculture in the Information Society - GenARDIS (A French version of this announcement will be circulated shortly) Winners announced for second round of GenARDIS Small Grants Fund ­ more than 310 nominations received The GenARDIS small grants fund was initiated in 2002 by CTA, IICD

Re: [DDN] Current browser standards for international audiences

2005-04-23 Thread Taran Rampersad
Todd, We're talking about what would be proposed for new standards. That means new browsers. Old browsers, and old computers, will always be behind. So the problem you're talking about is economic, mainly. It seems to me that just turning off style sheets and 'living with it' is a great way to

Re: [DDN] Current browser standards for international audiences

2005-04-23 Thread Marcela Christina Musgrove Ch.
Nope. It does not work. I assure you, I have tried repeatedly. I have tried creating new accounts. It does NOT work on my machine, not with any of the three browsers I had. I'm certainly not a super user, but I'm certainly not a novice either. There are many sites where one of my browsers work

[DDN] [Net-Gold] COUNTRIES: TURKMENISTAN : LIBRARIES: PUBLIC : CENSORSHIP: Turkmen Hit by Library Ban

2005-04-23 Thread David P. Dillard
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RE: [DDN] FW When iPod goes collegiate

2005-04-23 Thread Chris Warner-Carey
Re recording on an ipod--you can actually record directly to an ipod, although Apple seems to have intentionally degraded the quality--it's only barely acceptable for voice recordings. There are a few available accessories that plug into the headphone jack on the ipod to allow recording. See

[DDN] New Civic Leadership and Machine Dreams

2005-04-23 Thread Deborah Elizabeth Finn
(A more detailed version of this item is available on my blog at http://blog.deborah.elizabeth.finn.com/blog/_archives/2005/4/22/607624.html) Dear Colleagues, On Thursday evening, I attending a RealTalk http://www.massinc.org/real_talk/index.html forum in Boston on New Civic Leadership that

Re: [DDN] FW When iPod goes collegiate

2005-04-23 Thread Jacqueline Morris
There are many add-ons available to allow recording with an iPod. Other mp3 players have the recording capability built-in. On 4/23/05, Steven Wagenseil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Claude: Re the comment about intellectual property theft (which is what is meant when talking about a professor's

Re: [DDN] Current browser standards for international audiences

2005-04-23 Thread Todd Seal
I suggest you have something else wrong with your computers then! I just logged into blogger.com with NS4.7 (pc and mac) and NS7 (pc and mac) and IE (pc-6 and mac-5.2). As I said, most of my students created their acounts on NS4.7. I wonder what the problem is. What you're describing is very

RE: [DDN] FW When iPod goes collegiate

2005-04-23 Thread acarvin
I use the iTalk device to record on my ipod. You can also install linux and override apple's bit rate limitation, though only on a 3G ipod. Newer ipods will have to wait until the next ipod linux package is complete. Andy Carvin EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org