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The Blog, The Press, The Media: Bridging the Digital Divide
Anne Daly presents data from the 2001 Census of Population and Housing to highlight the low levels of computer and internet usage by Indigenous Australians.
One possible way of addressing the digital divide between capital city dwellers and other Australians is through the development of community online access centres. Factors that are likely to make these centres more successful include a strong commitment by the community to the development of a centre and a close integration of the centre with community activities, and the budgeting of significant funds for training all involved including centre staff and community members
• Lack of community leadership: Online opportunities and threats: strengths and weaknesses [It involves no less than the dream of all librarians since the creation of the Alexandria repository in Ancient Egypt ... Google Print, or knowledge is power ; The new publishing tool, Bubbler, provides web publishing with the ease of blogging Bubbler Drag and Drop Web Publishing]
• · I can no longer abide the simpering voices of self-styled progressives -- people who once championed solidarity. The left is no longer progressive — Keith Thompson is leaving the left. Angels, Aliens and Bloggers — The blogging Right are all over this article today, entitled Leaving the left and written by one Keith Thompson Leaving the left ; via Memeorandum
• · · Conservatives Are Losing Their Monopoly On Complaints About Media Bias The Media in Trouble ; For all of us who rely on, and want to trust, our newspapers, television networks and news magazines, this has been a tough couple of years Yet Another Wake-Up Call
• · · · Now, everyone agrees that Republicans make the rules today in U.S. politics Sticks and Stones and the "Secular Left" ; How much of a pipe dream is it to be an effective 'media reform activist?' Most of us are skeptical about real opportunities for mere mortals to do anything to stanch the flow of life from an increasingly sold-out, wimpy, self-censoring, corporate-owned fourth estate. Winning the Media Wars
• · · · · The National Conference for Media Reform held last week in St. Louis was a smashing success in generating the momentum that the organizers from Free Press hoped for. Bill Moyers' powerful sermon of a speech during the closing session on Sunday morning was aired on C-SPAN and hurtled through cyberspace faster than that proverbial speeding bullet Why We Need a Media and Democracy Act ; Bush Lied, and Press Can't be Bothered to Report on it
• · · · · · Back in 1882, a woman named Elizabeth Jane Cochran changed her name to Nellie Bly and invented investigative reporting. She posed as a sweatshop worker to expose working conditions in factories. In Mexico, she wrote about poverty and political corruption and was thrown out of the country for it. Back in America, she committed herself to a psychiatric hospital and exposed the horrible conditions there What Happened to Watergate? Exposés, muckraking, stings, enterprise journalism ; A re-enactment of "The Emperor's New Clothes - The updating of the children's fable showed me that there is an alternative to bowing and kowtowing to the tin pot Caesars of Washington, D.C., who have nothing in common with the rest of us but much in common with the equally privileged plutocrats, the K Street lobbyists, who service the senators with money and obsequiousness in exchange for access It's No Fairy Tale: Truth-Teller from Across the Sea Exposes Senators' Lies