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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

argued that we must shift from spending on the provision of hard copy braille to the provision of refreshable braille and the associated digital file formats to enable people to read so much more. “As Image by the National Braille Press, a DIAGRAM subcontract. A 3D graphic test on paper substrate of a circuit diagram.

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The Future (and a Little History) of Network Neutrality

NTEN

When pressed for details, though, many in the nonprofit community can't offer much of a definition. It all started in 2008, when Comcast deliberately slowed Internet traffic for BitTorrent, a file-sharing site, and the Federal Communications Commission told the ISP it can't do that. You should. Think it can't happen? It already has. .

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Lisa Stone Interviews Global s Founders on Yi-Tan 1/9

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The call is tommorrow, but you can always listen to the audio file. How does this "conversation community" take its next steps, when so many bloggers live in countries that lack a free press? Blogher Lisa Stone interviews Ethan Zukerman and Rebecca MacKinnon, Global s Founders. A stage for global activism? Feedback?

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways. With a press of a virtual button, an ebook can be printed, displayed in large print (on a page or on a display), made into braille (on a page or on an electronic braille display), or read aloud as audio.

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Live Streaming Basics for Virtual Events

AccelEvents

Every live stream has five major parts in order to function properly: a video source, an audio source, a video encoder, a streaming destination, and an internet connection. Audio Equipment. Audio equipment can be connected to the video source, but for even higher quality live streaming, you will want a separate audio source.

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Live Streaming Basics for Virtual Events

AccelEvents

Every live stream has five major parts in order to function properly: a video source, an audio source, a video encoder, a streaming destination, and an internet connection. Audio Equipment. Audio equipment can be connected to the video source, but for even higher quality live streaming, you will want a separate audio source.

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How To Avoid Being Seduced by Web2.0 Hype: The UK NpTech Perspective

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

audio and video files used for press stories, appeals, celebrity support (and branching out into podcastingetc) [link] [link] Animal Aid???shock does aid help developing countries???? link] Plan International???support support child sponsorship approach with ???Virtual Virtual Village???including for the ICT hub).

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