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News Headlines
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All headlines: http://www.1stheadlines.com/pennsylvania2.htm
Events
National Media & Technology Calendar from NPO/NGO
Other Renderings Elsewhere of 9x9 Thinking
http://www.stigmergicsystems.com/ by Peter Small in the UK
Parenting
Healthy Dads a Hill House (Pgh) project
PPS Take Your Dad To School Day - planning
Stay at home parent benefits on radio show - http://www.wamu.org/ram/2002/p2020221.ram gender, work and family. Author of Unbending Gender. Univ. of Chicago, Mothers at Home support group.
PALs community list is started again. Its a western PA community discussion group for members of a loose homeschooling group.
Stay-at-home dads article from Fox
Family Guidance - nonprofit in Allegheny County. Has a dad's program too.
Challenging Ideas for Action-Oriented Dads
Dr. Ken Canfield, NATIONAL CENTER for FATHERING, email newsletter, www.fathers.com
Boot Camp for New Dads
Parental Stress Center
Fathers Raising Children Project - advocacy
Single and Custodial Fathers Network - support
Agenda for Out-of-school activities
Pittsburgh's moms are the 5th most wired in the nation, reports the PG.
Pittsburgh's Center for Family Excellence
PA's Foster Parent Association
Christian Homemaking.com - Taking Homemaking to a "Higher" level
Open Minds Open Doors - mental health site for employers from Phili that got Gov's attention.
 Technology
The Manhattan Virtual Classroom
Password protected, web-based virtual classroom system that includes a variety of discussion groups, live chat, areas for the teacher to post the syllabus and other handouts and notices, a module for organizing online assignments, a grades module, and a unique, web-based email system open only to students in the class. Developed at Western New England College, Manhattan is free, and is released under the GNU General Public License.
MimerDesk
MimerDesk is a web-based collaborative learning and groupwork environment designed for a wide variety of uses such as personal management, computer-supported collaborative learning, carrying out projects, and setting up communities. Strengths include a customizeable group system which allows many groups to work simultaneously on a shared database with tools like Projects, Calendar, Tasks, Forums, Links, Chat, Reviews, Voting, Files, Instant Messages, Profiles, and many more.
Mimer comes from the scandinavian viking mythology. It means the center of all information where the tree of life, Yaggrasil rises. Desk refers to the way you work in MimerDesk. The 'i' in Mimer is pronounced like 'My-Merlin'.
Planned obsolescence is a downer. Microsoft has officially ended all support for Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.5 operating systems as of December 2002. Linux never dies.
http://www.digitalgovernment.org
Bay Area Video Coalition's (BAVC) Medialink program -- an
award-winning scholarship program that provides technical training and
career development for low-income San Francisco adults. Students learn
the latest in media technologies and apply their skills to building Web
sites for nonprofits.
Western PA LUG (Linux User Group)
Come Invent the Future, Invent PA's site: http://www.inventpa.com
College Instructional Plan for Open Source Software teaching
Oregon Open Source editorial -
Oregon's proposed bill to allow consideration of Free and Open Source Software with school-wide implications.
Tux Paint art and paint software geared for kids, open source, multiple platforms from WIN to Linux
H 2 0 project from Harvard
The Case for Linux in Universities
Tech central station Where Free Markets meets Technology
http://whatis.techtarget.com/
Screaming Penguin hub
Table to persuading that Linux is a viable alternative to Windows.
Savannah GNU
Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS)? Look at the Numbers!
Internet 4 Classrooms
Seul/Edu Educational Application Index
Virtual Remote Server Article Explains vision and project to replace dedicated web servers. Would work well in Citiparks Computer Labs. Virtual Remote Server is a p2p server cluster that provides various Web Services to the internet. It's design offers several of the most important advantages of a centralized server, a persistant net presence and a common, manageable database.
Red Hat Linux to certify schoolkids -splendid news
Three Rivers Educational Technology Conference hosted by the Carnegie Science Center
Trinity Learning Innovation Centre in Australia Open Source Software: Freedom to Educate and Innovate. OSS is central to Trinity College's educational objectives.
Open Source advocacy at the University of Southern Mississippi, Open Source Software Institute
Link a GPS receiver with a Macintosh PC, http://www.gpsy.com
CTC Net Conference - Community Technology Centers - Washington DC, June 26-29, 2003
Open Ebook Forum Internatinoal trade and standards organization
Organization for Free Software in Education and Teaching a Frech-based hub site with many great projects.
Am. Bar Assn. Division for Public Education, the National Online Youth Summit
ISTE - International Society for Technology in Education
MIT Lifelong Kindergarten project.
Open Source Directory
FAQ for Mailman - email discussion software with a web interface
CMU Computer Reliability
TrainingPoint - Portal for Sharing Technology Curricula for Nonprofits Improves the capacity of the nonprofit training community.
Icon collections, big, and FREE in JPEG and ICO.
Graduation Day for Linux
TrainingPoint Portal for Sharing Technology Curricula for Nonprofits
Street Tech
Bay Area Technology and Education Collaborative
W3C HTML Validator Service for web sites
Center on Applied Special Technology's check
Pittsburgh Internet Exchange PitX - hosted by Pair.Com
Summa Tech - Pittsburgh high tech firm that helps companies design and develop mission-critical web-enabled applications.
Parkhurst Net Productions customers range from large to small, part-time businesses.
PCFACTOR - Computer help for the Home User. No need to unplug, we come to you. Repair, service, networking, and tutoring with 20 years of experience.
Linux Tutorials
Linux white paper from Metasource with total cost of ownership - 20 pages
Reasons to avoid Microsoft from the LUG (Linux Users Group) of Davis.
Getting Started in Open Source and Education from RedHat
IBM's Linux Tutorials
Linux Tutorial
Linux Tutorial
Linux Tutorial Outline
Dan Schwie runs
OpenSourceAlternatives
Benton org
Digital Opportunity .org
Digital Divide Network .org
Interversity's techrhet http://www.interversity.org/lists/techrhet/
Linux on the Move
Penguin in Playstation 3 and BMWs
Wireless Internet
Grok Technology Inc., a Pittsburgh-based wireless technology firm
3 Rivers Connect
Pittsburgh Public Wireless Internet pilot at Mellon Square and Market Square from Monday through Friday, from 7:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m., and 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., for one month.
Helps IT instructors at technical and community colleges
keep current. National Workforce Center for Emerging Technologies reports a gap of 18 to 24 months between new software in the commercial sector and IT instructors. Don't hold your breath, as the plans to include all states hit within 5 years. Efforts start in Texas and Washington, not PA. Topics includes Java, Linux, and network security.
Tools
Cool Text
Word Net a public domain, on-line lexical reference system. Design is inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory. English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept. Different relations link the synonym sets.
Mailman tutorial for users and subscribers. Mailman is a mailing list discussion manager used in many situations, including at Rauterkus.com/mailman/listinfo.
http://ideagraph.net/
www.thebrain.com
Tinderbox
MORE 3.1, the classic outliner, more, available at no charge, http://www.outliners.com/more31
http://faughnan.com/more/
Mozilla Development
Web Crossing's Express Server
Linux HTML Editors
- Mozilla Composer, http://www.mozilla.org/
- Bluefish, http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/index.html
- Quanta Plus, http://quanta.sourceforge.net/
- Quanta Gold (commerical), http://www.thekompany.com/products/quanta/
- OpenOffice includes and HTML editor
Schools
- PA Educator dot NET mainly for jobs
- Free Software in Education project seeks to enable, advocate, and
defend Free Software usage in schools from Kindergarten to university. Members welcomed. A goal is to defend the rights of students to use free software.
- Linux In Education Portal Consider using Linux in
schools.
- In the Classroom - with 20/20's John Stossel
- K12 - William J. Bennett and others started K12 in 1999 to create a world-class, traditional program in education -- one that would empower parents to be effective teachers and empower students to explore the world around them thoughtfully.
- K-12 Networking Conference
- Organization for Free Software in Education and Teaching a Frech-based hub site with many great projects.
- OpenSource:Now
- K-12 Linux Project
- Riverdale High School migration study
- Schoolforge, repository for software, and lesson plans
- ITeachNet.Org
- Open Source Schools
- Open Source Textbook Project
- SEUL/edu a discussion group for those interested in using Linux for education. This covers all aspects of educational uses of Linux, by teachers, parents, and students.
- Public Education
The greatest single innovation of this democratic republic has been the
idea of the public school. Its an American ideal.
Education is a community enterprise, grounded
in community and strengthening the community in the here and now.
The idea of democracy, of maintaining civic participation by fully functioning
citizens -- that is an absolute responsibility of the public schools
system, if for no other reason than its own security. Only a healthy
democracy can and will cherish and support a healthy school system. It is
a responsibility that is not being met by the schools today.
- Education, Policy & Issues Center
- TASK - Technology Advancing Student Knowledge - Called, "the best in-house teacher resource ever!"
- Nader's efforts in DC, http://www.savedclibraries.org/
- Education World (The Educator's Best Friend) and link page to 12 great sites
- Linux Education Generic User Programs (LEG-UP) CD
Sports and Fitness
Politics
- Allegheny County Chapter of the Young Republicans, http://www.yr-ac.com/, YRAC Chair Monica Douglas
- GovNetPA.com
- PA for Clark (Wesley, not Pat)
- PA for Dean
- Heartland Institute
- http://www.pa.lwv.org./schoolboards/allegheny/pittsburgh.html
- League of Women Voters hosted at Stargate
- http://www.pauljsentner.com/no_wehav/
- Citizen Outreach
- League of Women Voters - Schoolboard - PA
- Info Ren
- http://www.e-democracy.us - substantial set of links for the U.S. 2004 election
- Moon Township site, http://www.pist-off.com/, People Interested in Sincere, Trustworthy Officials.
- Republican Jewish Coalition, Pittsburgh Chapter, http://www.rjchq.org/, led by Joe Weinroth (8th District Republican Committee, The Republican Jewish
Coalition (RJC) was founded in 1985 as the national grassroots
organization. The Pittsburgh Chapter, servicing
southwestern PA joins existing chapters in New England, Philadelphia, South
Florida, Los Angeles, Northern California, Cleveland and other areas. The purpose: to sensitize Republican Decision makers at all levels to the concerns of American Jewry and to articulate, advance and promote Republican ideas and policies in the Jewish Community. Call 412-422-5131.
- Policy by Mayor of London on connecting the capital with technology
- Article on Punk Voter in Wiretap, , or the site, Punk Voter dot Com - an anti GW Bush site by design.
- Gerry Reed's witty newsletter, not exactly scholarly, the Loose Cannon Lib knows his stuff, http://www.freecannon.com/.
- Pittsburgh Bill of Rights Defense Campaign
- Marketplace of ideas - May 1, 2004 - review of 2003 event
- US Gov Regulations - first federal e-government portal with "participate" and
"democratic process" on the home page. More Here.
Regulations.gov makes it easier to participate in Federal rulemaking - an essential part of
the American democratic process. Find, review,
and submit comments on Federal documents that are open for comment
and in the Federal Register. Have the Government take your views into
account across different
agencies.
- www.liberty-news.com
- Rational Review and its News Digest
- Philadelphia-based Center for the Study of Economics
- lawrencevillevotes@yahoo.com
- Voter Informational Services helping voters get beyond the soundbites
- Pittsburgh Bill of Rights Defense Campaign
- GOP Blog
- Downloadable Pennsylvania voter registration form in PDF
- Fantasy League for Politics, the National Government Simulation (NGS)
- Congress and Classroom - Teaches students, parents and educators about the House and everything they need to know about the Legislative Process.
- RightMarch, an Political Action Committee (PAC) for conservatives. The PAC has grown from net roots planted during the war with Iraq. The website was originally created to help organize the hugely attended "Rallies for America" held throughout the country, in addition to other "support the troops" efforts. Led by big names such as William Greene (ConservativeAlerts.com) and Phil Sheldon (ConservativePetitions.com), the website has the clout and experience to once again move quickly to the national stage.
- CitizenOutReach.com
- Moveon.org
- Charity Lobbying in the Public Interest
- www.expage.com/pgh1 - change the URA to the Urban PRESERVATION Authority, from former candidate for city council in District 4.
- Ken Krawchuk, Libertarian for Governor of Pennsylvania, http://www.kenk.org
- Southwestern PA Green Party
- Free Speech Movement
- Area TV stations made $16 million on political ads in 2002 Pgh Biz Times
- NPAction - nonprofit action and advocates
- Campaign Finance Institute - details for PACs.
- Common Conservative Tom Adkins, former rock singer, razor-sharp soundbites with wit and easily understood by a citizen sitting across the table eating meatloaf and mashed potatoes.
- Project Vote Smart
- Roll Call - DC news
- Office holders
- Congress Online Project
- Many political links via a handbook page, http://maxpages.com/lio/activist_handbook/
Jobs
Pittsburgh
- element 5
- Three Rivers Film Festival
- Pittsburgh Town Hall dot Com - with Bill Peduto and Peter Shane at CMU. Launched to great fanfare on July 3, 2003. The jury is still out on this one, as with the other CMU community offerings.
- FreeRivers calendar of gratis events around Pittsburgh.
- Discover pittsburgh's site, http://www.discoverpittsburgh.org
- Brand Pittsburgh Region oh boy
- Allegheny Institute for public policy with a gratis email brief
- Visit the NewColonist.CLOH.Org for additional insights
- Bloomfield Garfield Corporation
- YinzerMullet, an addictive Pittsburgh weblog.
- Hazelwood Homepage
- Stronger PA .org - Citizens for a stronger Pennsylvania
- PA Family.Org - Pennsylvania Family Institute
- RAD (Region Asset District)
- Pittsburgh Region
- Hazelwood Homepage
- First Night - Dec. 31 to Jan 1
- Xplorion, interactive showcase and virtual tour of the region with a "flight theater" on the first floor of the old Alcoa Building, Sixth Street, downtown.
- Community Design Center of Pittsburgh
- The Union Project
- http://www.smokefreecity.org/
- Making Slicker Slogans for the city, Tribune-Review, Nov. 2002
- New Yinzer Magazine
- Point State Park makeover with Cambridge, Mass firm
- Music Awareness Pittsburgh
- Flux - seasonal party with artists and wild urban venues
- Historical Maps of PA
- Getting To The Point, Inc.
- 3 Rivers On 2 Wheels, book explores Pittsburgh's neighborhoods with highlights of city's architecture and history.
- Pittsburgh Standard
- Association for the New Urbanism in PA
- Pittsburghese
- Pittsburgh Nightlife
- Publisher, The Local History Company small press publisher of some regional books
- Greater Philadelphia Federation of Settlements, working to build stronger neighborhoods in more than 45 Philadelphia suburbs.
- Artists in Pittsburgh area talk trade ideas, shows, exhibits, information and inspiration. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/art-burgh/?yguid=149223962
- PA Databases lots of links
Transportation
- Pittsburgh Thunder
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BURGHWALK
Do you walk? Do you encounter obstacles in your path? Do you notice
that things are being designed for cars and not for people? Join
this group and help to point out things that aren't so pedestrian-
friendly and help to make improvements in pedestrian-amenities and
public transit.
- Light Rail Now
- Robinson Residents oppose Maglev route and Roddey agrees.
- Allegheny Conference on Community Development has its sights set on Oakland, and its touch nets results of lead.
- Old and Young Mix
- Pittsburgh Mediation
- Pennsylvania Biodiversity Listserve
- Port of Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania Blogs
- The Pennsylvania Gazette
- Dave Copeland presently a biz reporter for the Trib who used to cover other city matters
- PhillyBlog
- Erie Weblogs
- Paradox1X Blog
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