Mr T said that
But I loved the funny fast paced images and decided this video would take a different route to than straight to the recycle bin. I asked @Methoddan if he had any open source audio that I could use, he did, so I cut it up and overlaid or underlaid it (whichever it is), recorded a bit of my audio to give is some use at Social media Cafe Liverpool.
I hope you like my turning a fail into a win.
Way back in November I went to the The Roy Stringer Lecture – on the Democratising Role of the Web, at Fact Liverpool.
The speakers included
The event was based around Marth Lane Fox’s visit to Liverpool as she is the Nation’s Digital Champion and has been encouraging people to get on line – with the fantastic Give an Hour initiative. This is a really great idea as I want more people to see the benefits of getting online as proved when we ran the day long How Why DIY event in Aug 2010.
Liverpool has a population of about 440,000 with 100,000 of those not having daily access to the internet. Information is power and having access to that information can give the individual more power over their lives and over the lives of their children. That is the Digital Divide that is faced in Liverpool and laughingly isn’t being addressed by any of the councillors or local officials, bringing Martha Lane Fox to town really didn’t resolve any of the issues faced by the people that need access to the internet most. On a recent visit to a Merseyside school the teacher there told me that the pupils hang around the school longer so they can use the computers and internet for homework, it is great that these children get access but not all schools and pupils will be so lucky.
Check out the Digital Inclusion Strategic Framework from Liverpool City Council
During the lecture Martha mentioned that Microsoft are making recycled PC’s available for £95 for those on benefits. But as Richard Smedly rightly pointed out that we throw away millions of PC’s every year that should be recycled with free yes free software and passed on to those in need. Maybe some money should be spent on helping small organisations do just this especially as about 1/2 of adults not online hit 3 or more deprivation domains, then this issue needs to be addressed.
One final comment on this lecture is that the choice of panellist was bewildering, absolutely bewildering with more sense coming from the audience than from at least one of the panel members.
Do you think this Lecture contributes to the debate around democratising the Internet?
This is a vast subject but I will keep it simple and only cover a small part of setting up an online store.
Reading through some posts on this site I appear to start the most recent ones with “A friend asked me this week how” but this post is different it wasn’t this week it was last week.
So a friend asked me last week how to or what to use to set up an online shop for her website. It was to sell artwork through and she didn’t state what platform she was using –
I was asked if I knew any ways of converting website content into a readable magazine on an almost daily basis – It’s fair to say that I didn’t but after a few more questions I was able to get to the bottom of what it was that they were looking to construct – which was a new website that they could take the feeds from and make a proper looking downloadable PDF magazine from. But not knowing how didn’t stop me from hunting down some useful links and products.
Just realised that both The Iron Lady and Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes are massive recent blockbusters with a dementia sub plot. Got to assume now that hollywood producers will start to equate success with dementia. i am already working on Rambo 6: this time he forgot to take his gun????