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Friday, December 10, 2004

JIMBI MEDIA NEWSLETTER

http://www.jimbimedia.com/

Jimbi is the African slit drum, created by creating a hollow though a slit made on the side of a large log. It is an instrument with a big sound that could be heard up to 10 miles away, depending on the particular instrument and the nature of the terrain. Jimbi Media (JM) is a company that assists African visionaries, writers, leaders, artists and trendsetters of African descent to realize and to perfect their work, as well as to find and to satisfy their audiences. Visit their website to subscribe to their newsletter.

Jimbi Media Sites

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See http://www.jimbimedia.com/ for links to the sites below.

AFRICAphonie
AFRICAphonie is a Pan African Association which operates on the premise that AFRICA can only be what AFRICANS and their friends want AFRICA to be.
Bakwerirama
Spotlight on the Bakweri Society and Culture. The Bakweri are an indigenous African nation.
Bate Besong
Bate Besong, award-winning firebrand poet and playwright.
Bernard Fonlon
Dr Bernard Fonlon was an extraordinary figure who left a large footprint in Cameroonian intellectual, social and political life.
Fonlon-Nichols Award
Website of the Literary Award established to honor the memory of BERNARD FONLON, the great Cameroonian teacher, writer, poet, and philosopher, who passionately defended human rights in an often oppressive political atmosphere.
France Watcher
Purpose of this advocacy site: To aggregate all available information about French terror, exploitation and manipulation of Africa
Francis Nyamnjoh
George Ngwane: Public Intellectual
George Ngwane is a prominent author, activist and intellectual.
Godfrey Tangwa aka Rotcod Gobata
Renaissance man, philosophy professor, actor and newspaper columnist, Godfrey Tangwa aka Rotcod Gobata touches a wide array of subjects. Always entertaining and eminently readable. Visit for frequent updates.
Ilongo Sphere
Novelist and poet Ilongo Fritz Ngalle, long concealed his artist's wings behind the firm exterior of a University administrator and guidance counsellor. No longer. Enjoy his unique poems and glimpses of upcoming novels and short stories.
Jacob Nguni
Virtuoso guitarist, writer and humorist. Former lead guitarist of Rocafil, led by Prince Nico Mbarga.
Kencor Foods: GreatdryfishÂ
Kencor foods dries, smokes, vacuum-packs and fish to suit African and Asian tastes in conformity with FDA standards. Kenkor will ship greatdryfishÂ to your family or in bulk to your restaurant or store.
Martin Jumbam
The refreshingly, unique, incisive and generally hilarous writings about the foibles of African society and politics by former Cameroon Life Magazine columnist Martin Jumbam.
Omoigui.com
Professor of Medicine and interventional cardiologist, Nowa Omoigui is also one of the foremost experts and scholars on the history of the Nigerian Military and the Nigerian Civil War. This site contains many of his writings and comments on military subjects and history.
PostNewsLine
PostNewsLine is an interactive feature of 'The Post', an important newspaper published out of Buea, Cameroons.
Postwatch Magazine
A UMI (United Media Incorporated) publication. Specializing in well researched investigative reports, it focuses on the Cameroonian scene, particular issues of interest to the former British Southern Cameroons.
Simon Mol
Cameroonian poet, writer, journalist and Human Rights activist living in Warsaw, Poland
Victor Mbarika ICT Weblog
Victor Wacham Agwe Mbarika is one of Africa's foremost experts on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). Dr. Mbarika's research interests are in the areas of information infrastructure diffusion in developing countries and multimedia learning.
tunduzi

A West African in Arusha at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda on the angst, contradictions and rewards of that process.

What Corporate America Can't Build: A Sentence

[Forwarder's Note: This sounds like a good opportunity for professional writers to pick up some extra cash by offering training to corporations. George]

Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 06:34:33 -0600

From: Paul Nielson <p.nielson@shaw.ca>

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Subject: [CPI-UA] What Corporate America Can't Build: A Sentence By SAM DILLON

National Commission on Writing for America's Families, Schools, and Colleges

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In an effort to focus national attention on the teaching and learning of writing, in September 2002, the College Board established the National Commission on Writing for America's Families, Schools, and Colleges. The decision to create the Commission was animated in part by the Board's plans to offer a writing assessment in 2005 as part of the new SATÂ®, but the larger motivation lay in the growing concern within the education, business, and policy-making communities that the level of writing in the United States is not what it should be. Although there is much good work taking place in our classrooms, the quality of writing must be improved if students are to succeed in college and in life. The addition of a writing component to the SAT and the establishment of a writing commission respond directly to that concern. We hope that the work of this commission and the agenda it lays out will help create a writing revolution in the United States.

Writing: A Ticket to Work . . . Or a Ticket Out, A Survey of Business Leaders

<http://www.writingcommission.org/prod_downloads/writingcom/writing-ticket-to-work.pdf>

http://www.writingcommission.org/prod_downloads/writingcom/writing-ticket-to-work.pdf

Poorly written job applications are a figurative kiss of death, and corporations spend several billion dollars annually improving writing among employees, according to a business survey released here today by a blue-ribbon group worried about the quality of writing in the nation's schools and colleges.

News release: <http://www.writingcommission.org/pr/writing_for_employ.html>

http://www.writingcommission.org/pr/writing_for_employ.html

The Neglected "R": The Need for a Writing Revolution

<http://www.writingcommission.org/prod_downloads/writingcom/neglectedr.pdf>

http://www.writingcommission.org/prod_downloads/writingcom/neglectedr.pdf

What Corporate America Can't Build: A Sentence By SAM DILLON

New York Times December 7, 2004

[Forwarder's Note: No URL was supplied for this story in the original message I received, so I have excerpted it to allow for "fair use". George]

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. - R. Craig Hogan, a former university professor who heads an online school for business writing here, received an anguished e-mail message recently from a prospective student.

"i need help," said the message, which was devoid of punctuation. "i am writing a essay on writing i work for this company and my boss want me to help improve the workers writing skills can yall help me with some information thank you".

Hundreds of inquiries from managers and executives seeking to improve their own or their workers' writing pop into Dr. Hogan's computer in-basket each month, he says, describing a number that has surged as e-mail has replaced the phone for much workplace communication. Millions of employees must write more frequently on the job than previously. And many are making a hash of it.

"E-mail is a party to which English teachers have not been invited," Dr. Hogan said. "It has companies tearing their hair out."

A recent survey of 120 American corporations reached a similar conclusion. The study, by the National Commission on Writing, a panel established by the College Board, concluded that a third of employees in the nation's blue-chip companies wrote poorly and that businesses were spending as much as $3.1 billion annually on remedial training.

The problem shows up not only in e-mail but also in reports and other texts, the commission said.

"It's not that companies want to hire Tolstoy," said Susan Traiman, a director at the Business Roundtable, an association of leading chief executives whose corporations were surveyed in the study. "But they need people who can write clearly, and many employees and applicants fall short of that standard."

Millions of inscrutable e-mail messages are clogging corporate computers by setting off requests for clarification, and many of the requests, in turn, are also chaotically written, resulting in whole cycles of confusion.

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"The more electronic and global we get, the less important the spoken word has become, and in e-mail clarity is critical," said Sean Phillips, recruitment director at another Silicon Valley corporation Applera, a supplier of equipment for life science research, where most employees have advanced degrees. "Considering how highly educated our people are, many can't write clearly in their day-to-day work."

Some $2.9 billion of the $3.1 billion the National Commission on Writing estimates that corporations spend each year on remedial training goes to help current employees, with the rest spent on new hires. The corporations surveyed were in the mining, construction, manufacturing, transportation, finance, insurance, real estate and service industries, but not in wholesale, retail, agriculture, forestry or fishing, the commission said. Nor did the estimate include spending by government agencies to improve the writing of public servants.

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Kathy Keenan, a onetime legal proofreader who teaches business writing at the University of California Extension, Santa Cruz, said she sought to dissuade students from sending business messages in the crude shorthand they learned to tap out on their pagers as teenagers.

"hI KATHY i am sending u the assignmnet again," one student wrote to her recently. "i had sent you the assignment earlier but i didnt get a respond. If u get this assgnment could u please respond . thanking u for ur cooperation."

Most of her students are midcareer professionals in high-tech industries, Ms. Keenan said.

The Sharonview Federal Credit Union in Charlotte, N.C., asked about 15 employees to take a remedial writing course. Angela Tate, a mortgage processor, said the course eventually bolstered her confidence in composing e-mail, which has replaced much work she previously did by phone, but it was a daunting experience, since she had been out of school for years. "It was a challenge all the way through," Ms. Tate said.

Even C.E.O.'s need writing help, said Roger S. Peterson, a freelance writer in Rocklin, Calif., who frequently coaches executives. "Many of these guys write in inflated language that desperately needs a laxative," Mr. Peterson said, and not a few are defensive. "They're in denial, and who's going to argue with the boss?"

But some realize their shortcomings and pay Mr. Peterson to help them improve. Don Morrison, a onetime auditor at Deloitte & Touche who has built a successful consulting business, is among them.

"I was too wordy," Mr. Morrison said. "I liked long, convoluted passages rather than simple four-word sentences. And I had a predilection for underlining words and throwing in multiple exclamation points. Finally Roger threatened to rip the exclamation key off my keyboard."

Exclamation points were an issue when Linda Landis Andrews, who teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago, led a workshop in May for midcareer executives at an automotive corporation based in the Midwest. Their exasperated supervisor had insisted that the men improve their writing.

"I get a memo from them and cannot figure out what they're trying to say," the supervisor wrote Ms. Andrews.

When at her request the executives produced letters they had written to a supplier who had failed to deliver parts on time, she was horrified to see that tone-deaf writing had turned a minor business snarl into a corporate confrontation moving toward litigation.

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"If you want to indicate stronger emphasis, use all capital letters and toss in some extra exclamation points," Ms. Sherwood advises in her guide, available at http://www.webfoot.com, where she offers a vivid example:

">Should I boost the power on the thrombo?

"NO!!!! If you turn it up to eleven, you'll overheat the motors, and IT MIGHT EXPLODE!!"

Dr. Hogan, who founded his online Business Writing Center a decade ago after years of teaching composition at Illinois State University here, says that the use of multiple exclamation points and other nonstandard punctuation like the :-) symbol, are fine for personal e-mail but that companies have erred by allowing experimental writing devices to flood into business writing.

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"E-mail has just erupted like a weed, and instead of considering what to say when they write, people now just let thoughts drool out onto the screen," Dr. Hogan said. "It has companies at their wits' end."

Better Googling: Things You Didn't Know Google Does

Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 09:04:19 -0500

From: "Colin J. Williams" <cjw@sympatico.ca>

Subject: Re: [CPI-UA] Better Googling: Things You Didn't Know Google Does

George Lessard wrote:

Better Googling: Things You Didn't Know Google Does

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Power tips for getting the most from the Google search engine,

from toolbars to using Google as a calculator or to look up phone

book entries. Includes tips for journalists on using Google to

research stories. From Sree Sreenivasan, "Tech Guru" for New

York's WABC-TV.

http://www.sreetips.com/google.html

The above says:

If you are using a Windows PC, you should download the free

"Toolbar," which installs a search box on your Web browser, speeding

up the search process - and now offering a pop-up ad blocker

http://toolbar.google.com . Only works on Explorer - a great reason

to switch from Netscape. (Once you install it, you can use *ALT+G*

to access the search box instantly, without using the mouse).****

http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=32&aid=17405

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More recent information is available at: http://googlebar.mozdev.org/

Of course there is also the recently released Mozilla-Firefox, which provides good Google access.

http://lii.org?recs=024154

This merely advertises the one above.

Google is great but its news is US centred, even if one selects an "English" site (Canadian-English, UK, India, Australia, New Zealand).

The news for other languages seems to be less American. Although, under Science/Tech one finds:

Configs PC.com

http://www.configspc.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=527

*Firefox Ã la conquÃªte d'Internet*

<http://www.01net.com/article/259932.html>

*01net -** Il y a 7 heures*

Novateur Ã plusieurs Ã©gards avec, entre autres, son interface

personnalisable, le logiciel libre veut dÃ©trÃ´ner le navigateur phare

de la Toile. Pas moins. AprÃ¨s plusieurs versions intermÃ©diaires,

Firefox *...*

10 millions pour Firefox 1.0 <http://www.ckoi.com/news.php?n=2238>

CKOI FM

Logiciel de messagerie Thunderbird 1.0 fr

<http://www.liens-utiles.org/xoops2/modules/news/article.php?storyid=602>

Liens-utiles.org

Mes Nouvelles

<http://benefice-net.branchez-vous.com/actu/04-12/08-353303.html> -

Echosdunet

<http://www.echosdunet.net/dossiers/dossiers.php?id_dossier=405> -

Journal du Net

<http://solutions.journaldunet.com/0412/041209_thunderbird.shtml> -

ZDNet

<http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/internet/0,39020774,39191010,00.htm>

- *et 37 articles connexes >>*

<http://news.google.com/news?ned=fr&hl=fr&ncl=http://www.01net.com/article/259932.html>

There is a translation facility but it's still somewhat prinitive. The above is rendered as:

Firefox with the conquest of Internet 01net - 7 Novateur hours ago

in several connections with, inter alia, its interface

personnalisable, the free software wants dÃ©trÃ´ner the navigator

headlight of the Fabric. Not less. After several intermediate

versions, Firefox... 10 million for Firefox 1.0 CKOI Software FM of

transport Thunderbird 1.0 Fr Bonds-utiles.org My News - Echosdunet -

Newspaper of the Net - ZDNet - and 37 articles related > >

There is a good phone lookup but they link to whitepages.ca and not to http://www.canada411.ca/

They former has a better presentation but the latter seems to have a more complete database.

Colin W.

Better Googling: Things You Didn't Know Google Does

Better Googling: Things You Didn't Know Google Does
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   Power tips for getting the most from the Google search engine,
   from toolbars to using Google as a calculator or to look up phone
   book entries. Includes tips for journalists on using Google to
   research stories. From Sree Sreenivasan, "Tech Guru" for New

York's WABC-TV.

http://www.sreetips.com/google.html

http://lii.org?recs=024154

Subjects:
     * Web search engines
     * Internet searching
     * Google
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Canadian spam decision posted online

CANADIAN SPAM DECISION POSTED ONLINE
In response to many requests, I have posted a copy of the
Canadian Privacy Commissioner's decision involving the
application of PIPEDA to spam. Finding at

http://www.mgblog.com/resc/GeistPCCSpamdecision.pdf

Media coverage at

http://pipedaspamdecision1.notlong.com/ [Toronto Star]

http://pipedaspamdecision2.notlong.com/ [Ottawa Citizen]

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Thursday, December 09, 2004

Panel seeks more info on Mackenzie Valley pipeline impact

Panel seeks more info on pipeline impact

http://north.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=pipeline-panel-more-12092004

CBC North - Canada

YELLOWKNIFE - A report describing the impact of the pipeline proposed for the Mackenzie Valley is thousands of pages long, but incomplete, according to the ...

LINK: Mackenzie Gas Project

http://www.mackenziegasproject.com/index.asp

See all stories on this topic

http://news.google.com/news?ie=utf8&oe=utf8&persist=1&num=30&hl=en&client=google&ncl=http://north.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View%3Ffilename%3Dpipeline-panel-more-12092004

Nunavut Business Stories

Stockwatch, Thu, 09 Dec 2004 8:32 AM PST

Sabina Resources reviews Hackett River drill resultshttp://new.stockwatch.com/swnet/newsit/newsit_newsit.aspx?bid=B-404204-C:SBB&symbol=SBB&news_region=C

Sabina Resources Ltd. has released additional drill results from step-out exploration holes on the company's Hackett River project located in Nunavut, Canada.

Stockwatch, Thu, 09 Dec 2004 10:01 AM PST

Commander gets gold rights on 34 permits in Amaruk JV http://new.stockwatch.com/swnet/newsit/newsit_newsit.aspx?bid=B-404231-C:CMD&symbol=CMD&news_region=C
Commander Resources Ltd. has reached an agreement with Diamonds North Resources Ltd. and BHP Billiton Diamonds Inc. whereby Commander has been granted the rights to 100 per cent of all gold on 34 prospecting permits covering a land area of more than two million acres in Nunavut.

CCNMatthews via Yahoo! Finance, Thu, 09 Dec 2004 11:34 AM PST

North West Company Fund Reports 2004 Third Quarter Earnings and Announces Distribution Increase for 2005 http://biz.yahoo.com/ccn/041209/4c05a2de537996caa492d03541abd759_1.html
WINNIPEG, MANITOBA-- - North West Company Fund today reported 2004 third quarter earnings for the period ended October 30, 2004, declared a quarterly cash distribution of $0.45 per unit to unitholders of record on December 31, 2004, distributable by January 15, 2005, and announced a 4.4% increase in distributions for 2005 to $0.47 per quarter.

CCNMatthews via Yahoo! Finance, Thu, 09 Dec 2004 6:02 AM PST

Diamonds North Resources Ltd.: Victoria Island Project Expanded for 2005 http://biz.yahoo.com/ccn/041209/84f8f103b30dda7157a80ab12fbc5ca8_1.html

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA-- - Diamonds North Resources Ltd. announces that Teck Cominco Limited has met the 2004 requirements under the 2004 Amending Agreement and has elected to include the White Ice and Hadley Bay projects under the Blue Ice Participation Agreement.

CANADA: Natives' Land Battles Bring a Shift in Economy

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11740

CorpWatch.com - USA

... After Eskimos gained their own Arctic territory, Nunavut, in 1999, they have since won ... for the possibility that aboriginal people will have more power and real ...

Wednesday, December 08, 2004

US - Reporters trail badly in annual poll on honesty and ethics

NEWS MEDIA

Reporters trail badly in annual poll on honesty and ethics

Nurses top the list as most honest and ethical.

Once again, newspaper reporters score poorly in the annual Gallup Poll, released today, on "honesty and ethical standards" in various professions, as judged by the American public. They rank even lower than bankers, auto mechanics, elected officials, and nursing-home operators. To put this in perspective: Newspaper reporters are even less respected than their TV counterparts.Somehow, however, they top lawyers, car salesmen, and ad directors. And they also edge business executives and congressmen. Nurses top the list as most honest and ethical. If there's any good news for newspapers, it's that since 2000, the number of those saying that reporters have high or very high

ethical standards has climbed from 16% to 21%. In 2000, reporters were behind even lawyers in that category. All in all, in the current survey, Gallup found that 5% of the sample gave newspaper journos very high marks for honesty, 16% high, 50% average, and 28% low or very low.

Source: Greg Mitchell, Editor & Publisher

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000732750

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Meagre funding raises questions about pipeline review

MEAGRE FUNDING RAISES QUESTIONS ABOUT PIPELINE REVIEW

People hoping to intervene in the hearings into construction of the Mackenzie Valley pipeline say they're disappointed by the funding they're going to receive to do their job.
FULL STORY

http://north.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=pipeline-review-12072004

Call for papers CIRN 2005 24-26 August 2005, Cape Town

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CIRN 2005 - 24-26 August 2005, Cape Town South Africa - CALL FOR PAPERS

The Community Informatics Research Network (CIRN) 2005 Conference is open to receive research, policy and praxis based papers around the major theme of Â‘partnershipsÂ’. The Conference website will be found at

http://www.cirn2005.org

Community Informatics is principally involved with the social appropriation of ICT for local benefits.

The practice of community informatics usually involves role players with diverse interests, and many of the benefits are found in the combination of different role players' interests and resources. The main role players in CI are found in civil society, government, business and individuals. CIRN 2005 will highlight the interactions between these sectors in delivering local benefit.

Increasing availability of ICT highlights the need for new partnerships between and within civil society, the public sector and business. It moves the agenda beyond simple questions of access, to effective use. This challenges the current roles, responsibilities and activities in civil society, government and business. Experience is demonstrating that neither 'top down' nor 'bottom up' approaches are consistently delivering universal benefit; rather, partnerships are providing significant value propositions in the emerging information economy. Further, whilst the relationships between business and government are quite well understood, the relationships between civil society and business, government and individuals in the emerging information age are still in formative stages.

The conference is designed for researchers, policymakers, community leaders, ICT project leaders, government officials and regional community development groups who have interests, skills and experience in the social appropriation of ICT

Critical dates:

Abstracts and panel proposals 1 February 2005.

Notification of acceptance 15 February 2005

Full refereed papers due 15 March 2002,

Notification of acceptance 15 May 2005

Final papers due 30 June 2005

Contributions are invited from both developed and developing countries, but within the intended theme of the conference:

Â• Academic papers will be double-blind refereed and published in the conference proceedings.

Â• Papers that are not intended for refereeing are welcome and will be published separately.

Â• Case studies describing ICT related interventions and initiatives within communities are invited.

Â• Posters describing planned work or work in progress are also invited.

Â• Proposals for panels within areas closely related to community informatics are encouraged

A PhD colloquium will be conducted and these presentations will be reviewed

by a panel of leading CI researchers.

Submissions will be managed online. Please submit via:

http://www.cirn2005.org/papers

indicating under "Topics" (towards the end of the form) the *kind* of submission that you are making. Tracks will be organised according to submissions received and accepted.

In any case of difficulty, please email details to

prinse@ctech.ac.za

Executive Committee

Â• Prof Andy Bytheway (Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa)

Â• Dr Peter Day (Brighton University, United Kingdom)

Â• Prof Geoff Erwin (Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa)

Â• Prof Mike Gurstein (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)

Â• Prof Don Schauder (Monash University, Australia)

Â• Prof Wal Taylor (Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa)

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AP: U.S. tourists urged to pose as Canadians

December 7, 2004

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (AP) An American T-shirt company wants to
help U.S. citizens relax on vacation -- by posing as Canadians.

Full story at:

http://www.canada.com/national/story.html?id=38dfe90b-b9e8-46df-b102-216ec532c41e

Reading the comments posted on this story is even more interesting that the original story.

Tuesday, December 07, 2004

"Voices of Youth" Training Guidelines

"Voices of Youth" Training Guidelines

The Moab, UT-based Voices of Youth project has developed a handbook
for youth radio production training. This easy-to-read resource for
documentary production was written by Project Director Bruce Hucko, a
photographer who brings an artistic eye and ear to radio sound
design, recording and interviewing skills. You can download the VOY
Guidebook from the Sound Partners for Community Health Toolkit on
Production and Programming.

http://www.soundpartners.org/topics1983/topics_show.htm?doc_id=252124&attrib_id_list=1168,1156,1151

or use this short URL
http://snipurl.com/b7b4

Voices of Youth Production Guidelines (49K)
[download]
http://www.soundpartners.org/usr_doc/VOYTraining.doc

Other Items in Tips:

"Guide to Field Recording" by Flawn Williams
"How to Produce a Radio Documentary (or Feature)" By Dmae Roberts
"Make Your Own Radio Diary" by RadioDiaries.org
"Working With Pro Tools Free" by Jeff Towne
Current's Guide to Public and Community Radio Streaming Sites
This American Life's Digital Editing Guide
Audio Distribution Solution
Defining Narrative Storytelling
Guide for Independent Media Makers
How and Why To Tweak Audio Levels
How To Make a Documentary (for Community Organizations) (.pdf)
KUAC's Telling It Like It Is Radio Diary Handbook
KUAC's Sample Teen Reporter Agreement
Media Convergence Conference: Aug '04
Minidisc Guide by Jeff Towne (6/03)
NPR's Guide to Encoding and Streaming Audio
Radio Show Advice from Brooke Gladstone
Sample Release Form for Interviews
Technical How To Forum
Using the Sony Minidisc Recorder MD-37 and Sony907mic

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15 Steps To Fight Violence Against Women

15 Steps To Fight Violence Against Women: Monday, November 29, 2004

CAW's Video News describes the campaign to raise awareness of the need to fight violence against women.
Find out more >>

http://www.caw.ca/news/videonews/recent/15_steps.asp

PEACE CONFERENCE SEEKS TO UNITE MEDIA, CIVIL SOCIETY

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PEACE CONFERENCE SEEKS TO UNITE MEDIA, CIVIL SOCIETY
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Journalists and civil society groups in Central Africa will converge for an upcoming conference in Tanzania to discuss ways they can collaborate on promoting a lasting peace in the region.

The Panos Institute-Paris has scheduled the conference for December 13 to 15 in Dar es Salaam. The International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX) reports that the conference is aimed at encouraging better news coverage of peace initiatives in Central Africa.

The Panos conference is a follow-up to the recent International Conference on Peace, Security, Democracy and Development in the Great Lakes, sponsored by the United Nations and the African Union. At that meeting in November, also in Dar Es Salaam, 11 heads of state signed a declaration calling for an end to conflict in the region.

The December conference will encourage media professionals to reflect further on the four themes discussed at the earlier conference: peace and security; democracy and good governance; economic development, cooperation and regional integration; and human and social questions.

Organizers also hope that participants define and use some tools that could facilitate the peace processes in the region, such as information distribution networks or a charter for journalists. They also hope the participants develop a strategic plan for collaboration between media and civil society groups in the region.

Panos will select about 50 journalists from three target countries: Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The organizers also expect attendance from journalists in neighboring countries affected by the ongoing conflict, such as Uganda and Tanzania.

For more information:

http://www.panosparis.org/fichierProjGB/fichierProj233.pdf

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Canadian parliament set to ratify Tli Cho land claim

Parliament set to ratify Tli Cho land claim

The Tli Cho Land Claims and Self-Government Act is on the verge of becoming law.
FULL STORY

http://north.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=tli-cho-parliament-12062004

See also

Results about 7,520 for Tli Cho

http://www.google.com/search?q=Tli+Cho&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Saturday, December 04, 2004

ITUNES OPENS CANADIAN STORE

Apple Computer opened the Canadian iTunes store yesterday. The company is selling songs for 99 Canadian cents, which converts to about 83 US cents - 16 percent less than those in the United States pay for their iTunes.

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LYCOS ANTISPAM SCREENSAVER DOWNS TWO SITES IN CHINA

Lycos Europe's "Make love not spam" campaign has killed access to some of the Web sites of its target alleged spammers. According to Internet traffic monitoring company Netcraft, Lycos Europe has successfully taken two Web sites hosted in China offline.

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IBM CONSIDERS EXITING THE PC BUSINESS

IBM is reportedly negotiating a possible sale of its PC unit to Chinese PC maker Lenovo Group, though neither company is commenting publicly at this time. If such a transaction takes place, it would mark the end of IBM's storied history with the PC, a market currently led by Dell and

HP. Analysts consistently agree, however, that the move would be good for IBM, which has made no secret of its intentions to focus on higher-margin operations such as software and computer services. In particular, IBM executives have identified business process outsourcing as a key opportunity for the company. For its part, Lenovo stands to benefit significantly from acquiring IBM's PC business, which has in recent years migrated much of its production to China. If such a deal

goes through, Lenovo would have access to U.S. markets, which have traditionally been out of its reach, and would also own the very popular ThinkPad series of notebook computers. As noted by IDC analyst Roger Kay, in such a deal, "the IBM notebooks would be the prize."
CNET, 3 December 2004

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