[LM_NET] Celebrating 11 Years of Blogging - Sort Of

[Andy Carvin <acarvin@EDC.ORG>]

Hi everyone,

Eleven years ago today on the EDTECH and LM_NET lists, I launched my 
first website, EdWeb: Exploring Technology and School Reform 
(www.edwebproject.org). The site was the result of a post-graduate 
fellowship from Northwestern University's Annenberg-Washington Program. 
I'd spent the summer of 1994 working at the Corporation for Public 
Broadcasting researching the impact on telecommunications reform on K-12 
education. Because I was just a lowly grad student, they weren't willing 
to publish my findings in an official capacity, so instead I learned 
HTML, set up a Web server on my old Mac Classic, and launched EdWeb 
myself. It was one of the very first websites examining the role of the 
Web in education, and it propelled me into the work on the digital 
divide that I'm doing 11 years later.

Meanwhile, as part of EdWeb, I set up a personal homepage for myself 
called Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth As you can see from this 
archival copy of my homepage from around eight years ago, the page was 
organized with my latest news updates at the top, with older information 
further down the page.

http://web.archive.org/web/19970620115056/http://edweb.cnidr.org/andy.html

Over time, I eventually stopped coding the page by hand and switched to 
various blogger tools, including Blogger and Movable Type.

Today, of course, Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth - still a part of 
EdWeb but with its own domain name, www.andycarvin.com - is my primary 
way of saying whatever it is I want to say online. So in a way, I'm able 
to celebrate the 11th anniversary of my blog today. Perhaps not a blog 
in function that whole time, but certainly a blog in spirit. (grin) -andy

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Andy Carvin
Program Director
EDC Center for Media & Community
acarvin @ edc . org
http://www.digitaldivide.net
http://katrina05.blogspot.com
Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com
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