Digital Divide is Not Over But Overlooked

The Digital Divide discussion arose in a digital transition session at the Congressional Black Caucus week. The session was called It Takes a Village to Stay Connected in the New Digital Era.
The focus of the discussion was about the DTV coupons. These are coupons for converter boxes to assist people to transition from analog [...]

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BlogHer08: Lesley Pinckney, Essence Digital Dir.

I was fortunate enough to get Lesley to talk to me about the digital divide for communities of color. She was speaking during the BlogHer 08 Conference during the morning Keynote discussing old and new media with Lisa Stone moderating including Redbook editor-in-chief Stacy Morrison, and Bravo TV’s Senior VP of New Media and Digital, [...]

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Live Blogging NCMR 2008: Legislation 2.0 Self-Governance and Policy on the Open Internet

This is a repost of live blogging at Women in Media and News. I will do a follow up post on this issue here.
National Media Reform Conference 2008: Media Reform Begins with Me
Panelists: Andre Banks, Colorofchange.org; Micah Sifry, Personal Democracy Forum; and Matt Stoller, OpenLeft.com
Sifry opens the segment with using the data of all earmarks [...]

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