A few days ago during a #pubmedia chat on Twitter, we were talking about the complex relationship between public media – NPR and PBS stations – and community media such as cable access TV. Someone brought up community media centers that also serve as telecentres – places that provide free/low-cost Internet access and training – and I mentioned Lowell Telecommunications Corporation (LTC) in Massachusetts, one of several community media organizations that pioneered this model.
I’d hoped to tweet a link to a book on telecentres I co-wrote and edited for IDRC in Canada a number of years ago called From The Ground Up: The Evolution Of The Telecentre Movement, since it included a chapter on LTC. But I discovered that the online version of the book was no longer being hosted by telecentre.org. Thanks to Archive.org, though, I managed to find a PDF of the book. It’s a big file – seven megs – but the book is very heavy on photography, so the PDF version does it justice more than the Web version ever did.
I’m uploading a copy of it here to ensure that it doesn’t vanish again. I wrote the chapters on Ghana, Hungary and India, and co-edited the rest of it. Hope you enjoy it. -andy
So Kayleigh and I were watching a video this afternoon. At some point I realized Sean had wandered off into the kitchen and was being surprisingly quiet. I walked in and found him there, gently petting Dizzy – and for the first time ever, Dizzy seemed to be enjoying it:
Thanks to the good folks at iBiblio, I’ve switched my blog from Movable Type to Wordpress. My MT database had been having problems for many months, which is why I haven’t been posting very often. We’re still working out some of the kinks, but hopefully the blog will be stable fairly soon.
A soldier who was wounded in Afghanistan, one of several rehabbing at Walter Reed that we saw at the Silver Spring Thanksgiving Parade today. His mom says he expects to have another year of rehab before he gets to go home.
I just got this email in my in box. It’s obvious scam mail, of course, but I love how they’ve added a stock photo of global office workers to make it more convincing that a "British finance security company" needs my assistance in processing $35.5 million.
