Podcast-FeedI'm Back!!!-Banks using your debit card against you. Minority Serving Institute Technology legislation passes the House!
Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo. Watch your debit card transactions. Your bank may be giving you an overdraft loan which is very short term loan with a very high interest rate also know as “Overdraft Protections” . The Minority Serving Institute Bill has been resurrected and making its way through Congress again. HR 694 passes the House and goes on to the Senate as S 1650
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- Center for Responsible Lending
- Check out this report on Overdraft Loans
- Gov Track
- Status of the Consumer Overdraft Protection Fair Practices Act
- Gov Track
- Status of S1650- Senate Version of Minority Serving Institution Digital and Wireless Technology Opportunity Act
NECC 2007- Highlights- Digital Equity Summit
This is a first in a series of podcast from the National Educators
Computing Conference in Atlanta. The podcast features the keynote address at the Digital Equity Summit-Engaging
and Empowering 21st Century Learners featuring Sylvia Rousseau
Professor of Clinical Education; Rossier
School of Education
Ed.D., Pepperdine University, California
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Are You IC3 certified? Get your digital literacy certification.
The IC3 or Internet and Computer Core Certification is must for anyway in the workforce seeking to stay employed and to advance today including teachers. New royalty rates affect independent and small net broadcasters. Don’t buy the $99 Xbox 360 wireless antennae, use a cheap wireless router instead.
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- Certiport's website-
- IC3 certification information
- Broadcast Law Blog
- Internet Royalty Rates
- Survey My Podcast
The FCC rules against Cable!!, Courts rule that schools and corporations must keep all emails!
The FCC releases a scathing report on the cable industry. The FCC does an end-run around Congress and opens the door for the telcos to implement IPTV in local markets with no build-out restrictions. The courts have ruled that schools, corporations and certain organizations must keep emails in the event that they are needed for legal proceedings.
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- FCC Press Relaease
- FCC Adopts Rules to Ensure Reasonable Franchising Process for New Video Market Entrants.
- Schools must archive emails
- E-school news website
- FCC Report on Cable Rates
- FCC Releases Report on 2005 Cable Industry Prices.
The Wii is the system to beat, How Google Page Rankings Really Work, Automakers failing again
This podcast is late due to technical problems earlier this month. This was originally produced 12/6/06. I discussed the Wii as the system to beat. I disagree with a study at HBCU Lever over Google Page Rankings & HBCU’s. I tell you how Google really works, and why minority websites should use RSS, Blogs and Podcast. The US Automakers blame the Yen for their problems, but I show a GAO report from about 14 years ago when they had the same problem, and they were concerned about the Japanese. The report shows that US Automakers have a problem managing.
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