Andy Carvin: How Wide's the Digital Divide? 2006

See http://www.andycarvin.com/?p=1118 . As the original link to the podcast's mp3 does not work anymore, this Amara page was created using a 2007 copy available from the Internet Archive.

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(Andy Carvin) Good morning.

(inaudible) ... moments that I really had no idea what Joey was talking about (laughter)

So, he'd ask me a few minutes ago to critique his introductory remarks

and, you know, all I did was this (laughter)

For those of you who are listening to the podcast of that,

I was doing a "We're not worthy" kind of .... (laughter)

Yes, I am recording this.

For those of you who are contemplating taking notes [inaudible - not]

you really don't have to because the presentation, this powerpoint,

is already on my blog, andycarvin.com .

It's been released on what's called a Creative Commons license

and I'll talk about that later,

but that basically mean you can use it almost any way you want.

And with that little digital recorder I have here I'm going to be taping my presentation

and making it available as a podcast on my blog as well.

So, if you really insist about taking notes, you know, (inaudible - it)

but if you're on the fence about it like I am about these kinds of things,

don't worry about it, hang back and instead it would be better for you

to be thinking about some really good questions to throw me by the end of this presentation.

So, first of all what exactly is the Digital Divide?

The term has been around for at least 10 years, now,

probably since 1992, 1993.

And it often gets used in very different ways.

In fact, one of the very first uses of the Digital Divide I ever heard

was on a Greatful Dead's discussion list in the early 90's,

where Dead Head (check) was describing the challenges he had

recording Greateful Dead's concerts,

and he was about to make the leap from analog recording to digital recording

and so, he was asking for assistance in bridging this digital divide.

He could easily have been the one to claim the coinage

but (unclear) the term has evolved since then to mean a variety of things (2:02)