Matt Hampel | matth.org

Continuing the negativity of this blog with a lesson from Berkman:

When calling for contributions, guide contributors by sharing the bad examples, not the good, because they show what you don’t want but don’t tightly constrain creativity.

“We need better ways to track discussion threads from the blogs” sez Dan Gillmor in a 2005 report on Blogging, Journalism, and Credibility. Which is still true. No way people will keep up with everything it’s a pull technology. Email updates may help (Alan does it well, for ex., at http://thinknola.com/posts/gis)

From the same report:

Carvin uses a service, Audlink.com, to record from his mobile phone directly onto the web. It doesn’t automatically create enclosures or an RSS feed, so the podcast is not automatic, but it’s a useful too. He also uses a tool called audioblogger.com which enables the blogger to ‘call in’ to their blog and post audio files directly on it.

That was 2005; both have failed. http://www.audioblogger.com is an Apache hello page.  Livejournal does http://www.livejournal.com/voicepost/

What is Berkman doing to help with the Digital Divide? Not clear. OLPC? Complaining about the situation? (C Nesson is doing something in Jamaica)