Re: [DDN] overview of Pew report on broadband access and online publishing

Andy, Oddly enough I was looking at similar numbers when I looked at Democracy, Weblogs and Media The clincher here is that since 2002, internet penetration has doubled globally - with over 1 billion users worldwide out of a potential 6.6 billion. Yet, T

Re: [DDN] As the Internet fragments

Jacqueline Morris wrote: WGIG did come up with suggestions for the WSIS delegates to agree on - look at the huge background report at www.wgig.org And the delegates determined to continue the discussion in Greece in November. I'm aware. But there's not any agreement yet. But there were some a

[DDN] Re: [WWWEDU] overview of Pew report on broadband access and online publishing

Andy, It is very interesting, and important news, that so many people are publishing regardless of income level. In a sense it *is about access though (you state on your blog that it is not.) In the US there will continue to be a sizable chunk of families, many headed by single mothers, who cann

Re: [DDN] overview of Pew report on broadband access and online publishing

One other interesting tidbit - fixed wireless now accounts for 8% of broadband access. This is pretty big for those of us in the wireless isp business, since we never even registered on the radar for these kind of studies before. A substantial chunk of this is unlicensed and NOT provided by t

Re: [DDN] Building community on website

Tushar, I just read an awesome, inspirational statement about building community around Web 2.0 technologies--like blogs, wikis, email lists,etc. You can read it online at: http://www.mguhlin.net/blog/archives/2006/05/entry_1586.htm I quote a gentleman who articulates his vision for how these te

[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 blo

Re: [DDN] Punishing Students for Extracurricular Online Activities: Crossing the Line?

It's amazing that teachers and academics actually think that kids would post in their own name using an easily trackable web address! Most kids I know have at least 6 different mailboxes for different purposes, and very, very few K-12 teachers have the least idea how or if or where to look. Joe B

Re: [DDN] As the Internet fragments

WGIG did come up with suggestions for the WSIS delegates to agree on - look at the huge background report at www.wgig.org And the delegates determined to continue the discussion in Greece in November. But there were some agreements in the Tunis document - ITU has agreement on certain issues, ICAN

Re: [DDN] Remixing the web for social change

I want to preface this carefully. This isn't meant in a bad way - just a realistic way. It's not even a criticism. It's an observation, a question, and maybe a bit more - the idea is to get some people thinking, if possible. When there is an aggregation of information which is edited before c

[DDN] overview of Pew report on broadband access and online publishing

Hi everyone, I've just posted an overview of the latest report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, which focuses on home broadband access in the US and who's posting content to the Internet. Broadband access is up across the board, with middle income family access growing at the fa