Arabization Project - Call for Volunteers
Looks interesting, I read this call on the Jordan blog site http://www.jordanplanet.net/ > http://www.jordanplanet.net/Bloggers/AmmarIbrahim >> Saturday, July 9. 2005 Arabization Project - Call for Volunteers Let me get straight to the point, in Arabic we have no official reference to ICT( Information & Communication Tech. ) terms. As a result, we can't properly translate software interfaces, relevant books and other stuff in a standard manner. Relying on official entities to come up with official list is just not gonna happen. Here's my idea of how to tackle this issue: Manage to get a comprehensive list of ICT terms in English Work privatley with a small group of volunteers and translate the list Once the list is translated, publish the list on a website When you have something almost comprehensive, people will start referring to the list, and day by day, it'll become the official list. So if anybody is interested leave a comment, I spoke to some people about this Idea, and I already have two volunteers. http://blog.ammar-ibrahim.com/archives/348-Arabization-Project-Call-for- Volunteers.html#comments << ~ cheers Cecile # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
Re: AUTISTICI org in trouble: host Aruba says ...
I phoned and spoke with the 'Ufficio Legale' of http://www.aruba.it/ They say they 'have no idea of what has happened'. And they 'have no idea why Autistici published that things' Now why do I get that d=E9j=E0 vu with the Rackspace story and the seizure of the Indymedia servers about 3/4 year ago? I have been phoning across seas and oceans and asking a lot then, to find out that 'nobody knew anything', upto the FBI who also stated they knew nothing about it, it had not been them, and "they didn't keep copies of the discs" (yes, that's what they told me, literally). But yes, I've just started now with these last developments ;) -c- > -Oorspronkelijk bericht- > Van: Cecile Landman > Verzonden:Thursday, June 23, 2005 10:16 AM > Aan: 'nettime-l@bbs.thing.net' > Onderwerp:AUTISTICI org in trouble: This is not a private matter, > even if it's a privacy matter > > > http://autistici.org/ai/crackdown/comunicato_en_210605.html > > ARUBA-POSTALE 1 / PRIVACY 0 <...> # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
AUTISTICI org in trouble: This is not a private matter, even if it's a privacy matter
http://autistici.org/ai/crackdown/comunicato_en_210605.html ARUBA-POSTALE 1 / PRIVACY 0 When we started the autistici project, we thought in our cosmic pessimism that the worst thing could have happened could have been the seizing of our server, a idiot-sniffing of our data traffic and that cryptography should have been enough to keep relatively sure communications of our users. We were wrong. There are no conditions in italy to let you talk about privacy protection. On 15th june 2004 officers of the postal police, under an order coming from Bologna attorney, reached the Aruba provider where one of our association's server is hosted. Aruba switched off our machine, without telling us anything, and let them copy what they wanted to. We contacted the provider by telephone to ask what was going on and they told us it was an electricity failure. >From that moment on, as we can see from the legal acts available since some >days ago, they eavesdropped continously the webmail account named [EMAIL PROTECTED] Potentially, they had the chance to eavesdrop and decrypt all the other communications passing by our machine, and they still can. For these reasons, as soon as possible, we're going to switch off our machine, retire it from that provider and think about our next steps. By now we invite everyone who houses a server or hosts a website in the Aruba webfarm and who values his/her privacy, to find another place and leave Aruba rotting in its meagerness. Privacy conditions in italy were dire themselves: we have just tested on our skin that we can unplug the machine and declare the clinical death of the patient. We cannot know how many other commercial providers give help to police without giving any communications to their costumers; we cannot know how many and which are the informations that police can get from your and our servers or websites. We cannot know what kind of use they will do of those data; we cannot know if the provider let others do this special treatment after being well paid from competitors or personal informations traffickers. The scene is worthy of the best negative utopias: to organize a potential mass-eavesdropping for about 6000 mail users and 500 mailing lists, excusing it with the need to read one single mailbox, it's by itself the farest point from the meaning of 'freedom of speech'. THIS IS NOT A PRIVATE MATTER, it's not something regarding only us, we guess we are a good guinea-pig on whom to experiment new kind of controls and eavesdropping, like all the people involved into file sharing inquieries or other repression episodes. THIS IS NOT A MATTER ABOUT JUST AN ASSOCIATION OR A SINGLE INDIPENDENT SERVER. We're talking about the same inquery in which the FBI misused a federal decree excusing it for acquiring one log file and seized the entire Indymedia Italy server, on the october, 7th 2004. Into the next and more technical press releases, we'll try to explain better the sort of the attack and our contermeasures, and also the political events we're going to bring up, as we are sure to be not alone in this struggle. As we can't grant anymore a reliable service, we're going to retire the server for some days, during which we're going to clean it up and put it back on line. We don't plan to give to police and to servant providers any satisfaction about giving up: the downtime will be shorter than possible, few days and no more, and we'll use this bad fact to rise again like a wounded phoenix from the ashes. THIS IS NOT A PRIVATE MATTER, EVEN IF IT'S A PRIVACY MATTER. READ and SPREAD this email ORGANIZE & ACT autistici.org / inventati.org # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
'Blogging with the Iraqi bloggers -> www.Streamtime.org
rough talk and offenses were made, with the names of contributors of IBC being hijacked and used which brought a lot of confusion. It looked as if Emigre and some others had completely freaked out, out of the head so to say. But then it turned out it wasn't her, but some 'troll'. Of course this heavily frustrates any attempt to conversate or discuss. After a blog which criticizes American politics and practices in Iraq is published, rough and banal comments are a certainty. The 'bad-comment-behavior' happens just about everywhere in the bloggosphere, and it does have consequences for the information being -therefore not- published. Some bloggers closed their comment sections, others avoid to ever reading the reactions on their blogs again, and again others get angry or disappointed and react accordingly. For example the reactions on the pictures of a student graduation party on Hassan's blog Average Iraqi <http://aviraqi.blogspot.com/2005/04/war-isnt-everything.html> are very telling. One of the pictures is of some installation made by students on a square of a university of Baghdad. It is a representation of the Twin Towers with the planes flying into them. Now you don't have to wrinkle and scratch your brain very much to understand that this attack didn't have so much to do with Iraq in the first place, but it was definitely a catalyst for toppling Saddam. And now Iraq is on the verge of a civil war, and news from 'the zone' consists mainly of bombs, more bombs and death and progressing separation between Sunni and Shia. The Twin Tower disaster as such was a major event with major consequences for the Iraqi people (of course without forgetting the direct victims of the attack, or the never-ending mess in Afghanistan). Hassan is around twenty years. He grew up in the Saddamized Iraq. Probably never knew anything else. The comments on the pictures he published on his blog were, softly said, very rude, and no one who made them seemed to be capable of thinking him- or herself in Hassan's place. After this, he closed the comment section of his blog, and is not blogging that much anymore. Free Writer <http://afreewriter.blogspot.com/> in Mosul has started to blog not so long ago, in English and Arabic. Soon contacts were created after he first asked us if he could translate a Streamtime interview with Salam Pax into Arabic, after reading about it on IBC. But then immediately he asked us if we could publish stories he would write for Streamtime about Mosul and Iraq, in Arabic and in English. He is in trouble now because the internet connection is too expensive, he has a lot of ideas and wants a lot, but only small things are being realized. One step forward, two steps back. Salam Pax <http://justzipit.blogspot.com/> to our surprise had read all our mails, and kept an eye on Streamtimes' whatabouts. He had started blogging in 2002, and became the most famous blogger, not only of Iraq. (Not in Iraq). His writings are like oxygen to many. He was in Rotterdam during the International Film festival, where his film was shown; because in the meantime he had started video-blogging, or 'vlogging', for The Guardian and TV. He was interviewed by Streamtime in February '05. Pax: ''HYPERLINK "http://streamtime.org/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=350&blogId=1"I would never actually say many of the things I say in my weblogs, I say on my video blogs or when I talk to you. <http://streamtime.org/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=350&blogId=1> I would never go on the street in Baghdad and stand on a box and say: this is what I believe in. I am too afraid! This is bad. Okay, it opened a little door, but it doesn't let me to open it all. We still live within these confines, we still worry about how what we say is going to be taken. And that is why I am worried if I kind of go out of the Salam Pax persona. Because the things I said, the things I say, not many people are going to be happy about it. I don't feel that brave to tell you the truth. And this is sad, this is really, really very sad.'' All the bloggers, obviously inside more than outside, clearly have to deal with excessive problems. Varying from kidnaped family members who have to be bought free (kidnaping in Iraq is mainly business), to problems with the blogging itself (no electricity or connectivity), identity worries, distrust and insecurity, to other daily problems like watersupply, no freedom of movement, violence. And it is frustrating 'to play hide and seek with electricity and then afterwards also to write about it' as writes AnaRki13 <http://come-getsome.blogspot.com/2005/06/episode-564862-new-post.html> Continuing to work on the bloggersnetwork is essential, as pointed out earlier they are the ones that by their own initiative make an indisputable movement to
Open letter by Haidi Giuliani (mother of Carlo) and Rosa Filo (mother of Dax)
Our children, killed by the same violence ROSA FILO * HAIDI GIULIANI ** We are afraid and we would want to scream, but the indifference of a too big part of this country puts us in despair. "I hate the indifferent" Gramsci wrote in 1917. "The indifference is the deadweight of history. The indifference operates passively, but it operates... That what happens, the evil that weighs upon all, happens because the human mass abdicates to their will; leaves laws being promulgated that only the revolt could nullify, and leaves to rise men to power that only a mutiny could overthrow. Through absenteeism and indifference few hands, not surveyed by zero control, weave the cloth of collective life; and the mass ignores, because it doesn't worry..." The mass ignores today like yesterday because, in a space of time in which communication seems to pervade our lives, there is the Grand information that not informs, that selects the news, or hides it, or manipulates the facts. The mass ignores because the major part of the politicians it has chosen is only and exclusively interested in their own narrow-minded power. The mass ignores because culture and public schooling are continuously being impoverished and humiliated; the young who are seeking spaces to them denied, spaces for cultural exchange, to meet, of growth; are being accused for illegality are the young people who denounce the infinite big illegalities of the market and the other powers are being prosecuted. We are afraid because it has happened again, it continues to happen, in the indifference of the people, in the indifference of a political class that covers its eyes, its ears, its mouth; it doesn't want to see, doesn't want to know, and probably even thinks it can capitalize on some advantage of a diffused sense of fear. Within two days, in Rome, there have been wounded, seriously wounded: even "a dead could have escaped". On the 2nd of June a small, authorized manifestation of pacifists has been attacked by carabinieri and police in riot clothing with an anger that can't be understood by who hasn't seen Genoa, and Naples, and Milan, and Turin. The photographs that have been taken document the blood pools on the rails of the tram. It is not the first time. The night of the 3rd (June '05) about twenty fascists, with sticks, bottles and knives, covered faces, attacked some young people at the 'Centro Sociale' Forte Prenestino in Rome: one of the blades stops at just half a centimeter of the life of a boy. It is not the first time. In Rome as in Milan, as in a lot, too many other cities. Since months, since years already, exists who is documenting and accusing, in vain. We are afraid and we would want to scream: what are you waiting for, what do you really want?! Here: these are our sons and our daughters. Violated by the same violence, killed by the same ignorance, today like yesterday. And you, the indifferent, are the accomplices and commissioners . * mother of Davide Cesari, called Dax, killed in Milan in 2003, by fascists ** mother of Carlo, killed in Genoa/G8 in 2001, by carabinieri Roughly translated from the publication in Il Manifesto June 7. / '05 http://www.ilmanifesto.it/Quotidiano-archivio/07-Giugno-2005/art82.html -cecile- # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
RE: Newsworthy?
Dutch newspaper NRC-Handelsblad last weekend published an interview with Joris Voorhoeve, Dutch minister of Defense in the nineties, hence, during the Srebenica massacre. He now declared - this week yes - that he should have resigned after Srebrenica. best, Cecile www.streamtime.org "Ivo Skoric" wrote: >This was an interesting week. NATO soldiers raided Karadzic's house >in Pale. His wife and daughter had to sit humiliated in the NATO van >outside for a couple of hours until foreign soldiers combed through >their private possessions. And to all those who believe that >massacres in Srebrenica did not happen, they showed a video tape at >the Hague tribunal: Serbs were not any smarter than US guards at Abu >Ghraib. <...> # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
Re: A hackers manifesto
HOW TO: "collective hack in order to realise a class interest based on an alignment of differences rather than a coercive unity?" # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mediasetted Life
Mediaset-life, By: a Mediasetted citizen Jan. 18, 2004 published on italy.indymedia.org Regime? Maybe it would be good for the Italian case if the definition of regime gets a bit better analyzed and actualized. Hi there, I'm an Italian citizen living in Milan, in a building that was built by Immobiliare EdilNord, owned by the actual Prime Minister. I work part-time for the Pagine Utile, owned by the Prime Minister, but possibly I do have good opportunities to be contracted at a Blockbuster, the famous chain in ownership by the Prime Minister. I am since always a fan of Milan, the soccer club of the Prime Minister. I go to work in a car (seen for the first time in a commercial in Panorama, a weekly magazine owned by the Prime Minister) that I bought secondhand from an employee of the Banca Mediolanum, a bank of whom between the biggest shareholders - we see the Prime Minister. The insurance for the car is also owned by the Prime Minister and when I'm driving it happens often that I listen to some radio stations, these as well owned by the Prime Minister. While driving I see walls on which the propaganda for his political group is attached and often I see also his face friendly smiling at me. When I leave my house I first accompany my neighbor who works at the Finbanc Inversiones, owned by the Prime Minister, then I buy for my chef some newspapers and magazines also owned by - the Prime Minister. Sometimes I find traffic on my way, and to tell my colleagues about my eventual late coming I use a cellular phone of the Compagnia Telefonica Mobile that sees the Prime Minister under its shareholders. My house phone is owned by Albacom, Societ=E0 per la Telefonia fissa - from the Prime Minister. Some afternoons I go shopping in the Supermarkets built by the Prime Minister or part of his property, where I buy products, produced, published or sponsored, by the Prime Minister. In the evening I nearly always watch the television, nowadays completely in the hands of the Prime Minister, on which the Movies (often produced by the Prime Minister) are continuously interrupted by Commercials realized by the Prime Ministers Agenzia Pubblicitaria. And thus through Satellite I try to =93get out of Italy=94 to see if something good is being transmitted there, but also then it happens often to find oneself confronted with Television or Publicity Networks functioning under Mediaset, owned by the Prime Minister. Distrustful and tired I do some surfing on the Internet via the Jumpy Provider, of NewMedia Investment, another property of the Prime Minister and there I find lots of declarations of the Prime Minister, nearly all against his political opponents, but also directed towards me, in which he wants to inform me that he is making laws in my exclusive interest. Every now and then I go to the cinema, to the Prime Ministers Cinema5 chain, and often I'm aware that the Movie as well as the first coming Publicity are being produced by the Companies in ownership of the Prime Minister. Sundays I like to stay at home, to read books, of which the Publishing Company is in property by the Prime Minister- Panta rei, everything proceeds--since some time however, I hear a lot of whispering about the Conflict of Interests in relation to our Prime Minister, and so I ask myself: why? Is there something anomalous? I don't really understand! Could somebody help me? My sincere greetings, an Italian Citizen translation: cecile landman # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Telestreets Rome go soccer
A SHOT AT murdoch's SKY Last Thursday various announcements were hung up on the walls of the neighbourhood of San Lorenzo, in Rome. The writings were simple and criptical: TOTTI FREE, or MONTELLA LIBERO, or SAMUEL LIBERO, or CASSANO FREE. The passengers had to wait until this morning to know that it had to do with an initiative of some Roman Street Tvs who came together to ritransmit on all televisions the encrypted signal of the soccergame Juventus Roma. This morning in fact the announcements were changed into similar ones with the writings: SUNDAY AT 20.30 JUVENTUS ROMA FREE AND CLEAR ON YOUR TELEVISION. GET SYNTONIZED ON CHANNEL 26 UHF. Also this morning a television crew of Channel 26 Uhf interviewed people on the marketplace in the neighbourhood. These interviews will be shown before the game starts and during the break as part of a program during which the organisers will explain the sense of an operation that aims in the first place to underline how the monopolies of information and the legislation on copyright are destroying the creative productions from below within peoples culture. The motive to do this is to protest against the closure of Discovolante, the neighbourhood television of Senigallia near Ancona, and the preannounced closure of the community television of Pisa. The Tv di Strada of channel 26 wants to contrast the criminalisation of this event recording the fact that on Sky still pends the denounce of Canal Plus which in court accused the Murdoch Group of piracy, by having spread the encryption codes in use by Canal Plus. We communicate: A shot at Sky A part of the joy found in going to the big stadiums is a parasital and riflexive joy, because if you dont go to North Bank, or to Kop, or to the Stretford End (the historical places of British hooliganism), it means that for the atmosphere you have to hold on to the others; and the atmosphere is one of the fundamental components in the soccer experience. These huge sectors are very important for a club as are the players, not only because their behavings do offer a serene type of support to the team, and not only because they bring in big amounts of money (even when these arent elements that are easy to hide) but because, without them, no one would care less about going to the stadium. (retranslated through italian back to english: txt Fever at 90 by Nick Hornby) The spectacle industry is a machine that works on the progressive equalisation of the languages and in attack on every kind of hypothesis of transformation of reality. The legislation on the authors rights and the extention of the monopolies do represent in this sense two sides of the same medaille. The circuit of the street televisions has identified in this scenary its own specific terrain of intervention and by exploring the dark angles of the television and radio legislation has initiated to intervene in the streams of the massmediocrizzata. Transmitting from the street and for the street, the Telestreet propone a new model of communication pointed towards a real partecipation of the public. The situation that invests the world of professional soccer is the outcome of progressive separation between soccer as business-spectacle and soccer as moment of sociality and popular culture. This tentative of separation hides the role that the values and the colours of the public and the hooligans continue to have in the construction of the soccer spectacle. All the curve, all the hooligans throughout Italy have already seen the risks of this pauperisation and have launched their own fight against modern soccer. Soccer is a spectacle that must be returned to the public which produces it and no communications monopoly may permit itself to encrypt the richness of the streets and the stadiums. To retake whats ours we decided to transform a Telestreet in a neighbourhood decoder. And so on sunday 21 september the game Juventus Roma will be live retransmitted in the neighbourhood San Lorenzo in Rome on channel 26 Uhf. The public is not for sale. Collaborating at the initiative: Tele Aut (Roma) Spegni la Tv (Roma) Ant Tv (Roma) Orfeo Tv (Bologna) Guerriglamarketing.it ===== Cecile Landman journalist Amsterdam ++31-06-15054830 ++31-20-6152104 mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] see: http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Telesogno or Telestreet in Italy
e Cavaliere (Berlusconi), who, however long ago in 1974, started his career in the ether with a television for flatbuildings, which was Telemilano, created for Milano 2. (This was the area where Berlusconi had build a complete new part to the city, and upto now it's unknown where the money to do so came from..., ndr) Against the law on transmitting, which was changed in 1990, by the then ruling politicians (Caf = Craxi, Andreotti and Forlani) in this above all, Craxi, more than just a good friend of Berlusconi, lawyers and parlamentarians work hard on it, promise battle, attack article 21 of the Constitution which treats the right on information, they recall a precedent from the '70s, when the monopoly of the ether fell and the free radios where born. It is not a coincidence that Telestreet was born in Bologna, from some people that were already between the founders of Radio Alice. At the ESF in Florence, while the Disobbedients rented a satellite channel for Global Tv, the international project HubTv transmitted some more in their cronichles of the movements on channel 60 Uhf. At work for HubTv were media activists with various backgrounds, from Indymedia to Candida, "the first electrodomestic television" founded by a group of young romans who three years back found themselves making a program for a private television for some months. Candida produces today independent metropolitan research and unedited formats for fiction and documentaries for various destinations, ether, satellite and web, and offers videoproduction trainings for young people from the outer skirts of the city. HubTv in Florence has propagated its city-signal thanks to the antenne which was kindly offered by Orfeo Tv, founded last summer by Telestreet with the slogan "let's make hundred, thousand neighbourhood televisions, we'll create a network and we'll have television with a real public access". Orfeo Tv transmits in a small part of Bologna living in one of the 'shadow corners' of the television frequencies where it is possible to be inserted without disturbing other transmittors, it's possible to sintonise in a reach of some hundred meters, channel 51. It transmits from the Via Orfeo, which explains the suggestive name to this television. With variable programming, the programs now go on air for some hours in the afternoon for a couple of days in the week, the rest of the time camps the 'monoscopio' (?) and the audio is sintonised on a local information radio. The video contents go from the local to the global, from the parking place that someone wants to construct in the place of a park with old trees upto the announced war against Iraq. Everyone has the right to say his or her thing, the faces known as common citizens. Everyone can contribute, promotors of sexist or racist contents excluded, the rules are simple. The objective of Telestreet (www.telestreet.it) is to create a multiform and extended editorial board, a network formed of the hundreds of 'cells' that should start to exist in the cities and the provinces, the aim is to see circulating videocassettes from and for every corner of the peninsola and further. 'Shadow corners from where to transmit are everywhere, it's enough to have an antenne installed on the contrary and Tv is made. The project is so interesting that it teared the concrete attention of Stefano Balassone, already consultant of the administrational board of the Rai Tv, from the central-left political group of the 'Olive', who some years ago with Guglielmi, Santoro and Costanzo worked at the programming of that what they namend Telesogno (Teledream), that never came to existence. Contacts and projects that start and grow in the shadow, or even in the small dark corners of the big transmittor, unedited resistent space for real public access. Valentina Avon (bad italian-english translation by Cecile Landman, who forgot loads of english while staying in Italy) # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
