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From The Ground Up: The Evolution Of The Telecentre Movement

Andy Carvin — Fri, 28 May 2010 12:44:00 +0000

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

The New Volunteers: Social Media, Disaster Response And You

Andy Carvin — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 19:59:53 +0000

Video of my March 2010 TEDxNYED talk, The New Volunteers: Social Media, Disaster Response And You:

Here are the slides from the talk:

TEDxNYED Talk: Social Media, Disaster Response And You

Obligatory Toddler-In-Bathtub Pic

Andy Carvin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:20:38 +0000

Sean And Dizzy, Finally Becoming Buddies

Andy Carvin — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:11:05 +0000

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:

Finally Switching to Wordpress

Andy Carvin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:50:10 +0000

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.

Kayleigh the Human Bubble Machine

Andy Carvin — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:15:15 +0000

Watch the Video

Posted via email from aka @acarvin

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv)

Giving Thanks

Andy Carvin — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:22:03 +0000

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.

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RIP, Jeanne-Claude: May the Pearly Gates be wrapped for you

Andy Carvin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:59:30 +0000

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Formats available: Microsoft Video (.avi), Flash Video (.flv)

clouds and concrete

Andy Carvin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:06:00 +0000

clouds and concrete, originally uploaded by andycarvin.

That Photo Sure Makes Your Email Scam More Believable

Andy Carvin — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:15:11 +0000

That Pic Sure Makes Your Email Scam More Believable, originally uploaded by andycarvin.

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.