Re: [DDN] FW: Gates Foundation Announcement (Action Required)

2009-07-21 Thread Claude Almansi
taldivide.net > http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a message to digitaldivide-requ...@digitaldivide.net > with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. > -- Claude Almansi ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing

Re: [DDN] The future of DDN

2009-03-27 Thread Claude Almansi
Hi, Cindy, Don and All, On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Don Cameron wrote: > The DDN email list still seems fairly active so is there any reason the > community itself cannot take responsibility for administration of the DDN > web? Spam waves were really hellish at DDN, Don: I caught a few be

Re: [DDN] The future of DDN

2009-03-19 Thread Claude Almansi
Hi All First of all, thanks to the moderators for having accelerated the moderation process for this list. And apologies for digging up a message midways in a last-year thread. But I thought again of: On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Taran Rampersad` wrote: > Then, perhaps, we could discuss what

Re: [DDN] why not googlegroups - Re: The future of DDN

2009-01-02 Thread Claude Almansi
als, for instance. Also, about Rene's change of subject line to "why not googlegroups" - and with apologies for repeating myself - there is a monoculture problem with choosing Google groups. Nowadays, choosing Google groups would be the same as if the Digital Divide Network had chosen MSN

Re: [DDN] in search of volunteer moderators (was The future of DDN)

2009-01-01 Thread Claude Almansi
Thanks for your answer to Cindy Lemcke-Hoong's question on moderating work, Andy: On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Andy Carvin wrote: > To facilitate and encourage discussion while dealing with users who break the > discussion rules. It's pretty straightforward. > > btw, one thing to point out -

Re: [DDN] in search of volunteer moderators (was The future of DDN)

2008-12-31 Thread Claude Almansi
ple to share again there the DDN-related experiences they are involved in elsewhere: exploration of new tools, accessibility and usability issues, their usefulness for the promotion of education, health, welfare and human rights in general, blocks against them and how to cirvumvent them - etc. Best

Re: [DDN] in search of volunteer moderators (was The future of DDN)

2008-12-30 Thread Claude Almansi
I've co-moderated 3 Italian mailing-lists a couple of years ago. So I'd volunteer to co-moderate this DDN list - preferably not alone, especially at first, until I get the hang of issues possibly involved. DDN counts. The issues may have evolved, but they have not gone away. Best Claude On Tu

Re: [DDN] Text of Pakistan's Prevention of Electronic Crimes Ordinance, 2008 (Ordinance No. IX of 2008)

2008-12-02 Thread Claude Almansi
Thank you for having posted this very important document to the Digital Divide Network list, Fouad. In fact this ordinance and its issues concern us all, not only Pakistanis, because laws about cybercrime present similar issues in many countries - though few foresee death penalty for cyberterrorism

Re: [DDN] The future of DDN

2008-11-10 Thread Claude Almansi
Good evening, Somehow gmail delivered just now the e-mails after Taran Rampersad's. Thanks for clarifying about payment. And thanks for the explanation of why keep the present system for the site. Just wondering: at first, the last posts of the mailing list used to appear bottom-right of the tem

Re: [DDN] The future of DDN

2008-10-13 Thread Claude Almansi
or funding would probably require a prerequisite of what TIG has already tried to do such that we can avoid repeating things" I agree. Moreover, how could the payments be made? Some members may not have a credit card. Best Claude Almansi (1) Yesterday evening I was automatically logged in a

Re: [DDN] PhD research on OLPC

2008-09-05 Thread Claude Almansi
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Norbert Bollow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Taran Rampersad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> "In October, Shenzhen China-based HiVision will ship a MIPs-based Linux >> mini-notebook for $98. The company is currently offering a similar >> machine for $120, according to

Re: [DDN] universal design (was: Web 2.0 leaves out people..)

2008-09-04 Thread Claude Almansi
ible sites are a pain for people with slow connection or handheld devices, the bridge obstacles do not only hamper people in wheelchairs, but also parents with a pram or carting things with something that has wheels). So I don't know whether such a unique general alliance between advocate

Re: [DDN] Fwd: Web 2.0 leaves out people with disabilities

2008-09-03 Thread Claude Almansi
would ask those > questions for any tech project they were involved with right now and > in the future, commercial or nonprofit, imagine what an effect that > would have. > > -- > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> > Ms. Jayne Cravens MSc > Bonn, Germany > > http://www.coyotecommunications.com > > Volunteer Coordinator > http://www.aidworkers.net > > www.ivisit.com id: jcravens.4947 > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> -- Claude Almansi ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.

Re: [DDN] Fwd: Web 2.0 leaves out people with disabilities

2008-08-22 Thread Claude Almansi
Hi Jayne and All. Between your lines, Jayne: On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Jayne Cravens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry to only be replying now. To Claude, and others -- great that > you have this knowledge about making sites accessible. But the > problem is that this knowledge is NOT bei

Re: [DDN] The Digital Divide and Human Health

2008-08-06 Thread Claude Almansi
t only - a digital issue. But for those who have already lost sight through trachoma, having digitally-equipped training centers might mean a progress in life quality and health. Best -- Claude Almansi ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivid

[DDN] Blog censorship: Rebecca McKinnon: "Weng'an riots, push-up protests, fifty-cent party, astroturf...head spinning yet?"

2008-07-16 Thread Claude Almansi
. So, apologies for cross-posting to other subscribers either of her blog or of WSISblogs.org. Direct link to her post: <http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation/2008/07/wengan-riots-pu.html>, for the illustrations and for the hyperlinks that get lost in the e-mail notification. Best

Re: [DDN] Call for papers

2008-07-16 Thread Claude Almansi
nal programs are still strongly influenced by France. Granted, you teach in Stassboug, yet you participated in the WSIS - so surely, you must have heard how much DRM protections (see my former e-mail) like the ones used by your review hinder knowledge sharing, haven't you?] Sincerely and flabber

Re: [DDN] Call for papers

2008-07-11 Thread Claude Almansi
ture décisionnelle en lien avec le choix des normes et standards, ainsi que le contrôle d'Internet. " in the PDF you attached. Governance begins at home, doesn't it? Best Claude Almansi www.noimedia.org On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 6:43 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[DDN] Fwd: Web 2.0 leaves out people with disabilities

2008-07-02 Thread Claude Almansi
(sorry, I sent that from the wrong address) -- Forwarded message -- From: Claude Almansi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 9:40 PM Subject: Re: [DDN] Web 2.0 leaves out people with disabilities To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group Hi Jayne Than

Re: [DDN] Introductions

2008-07-02 Thread Claude Almansi
Hi Marlene, Thank you so much for your offer: it doesn't drive me mad, on the contrary - but maybe a project in a Swiss psychiatric hospital is not really within the agenda of potentialafrica.com? After all, Switzerland is a rich country and should be able to finance a less DIY version of that pr

Re: [DDN] Introductions

2008-07-01 Thread Claude Almansi
never batted an eyelid and started working there alone. 's all for recent activities in that field. But I promised I'd go back to the patients' association, Club 74, for a workshop on how to introduce beginners to computers, based on the KISS principle - <http://en.wiki

Re: [DDN] Introductions

2008-06-27 Thread Claude Almansi
d platform trying to offer everything is still the best solution nowadays, or if the DDN platform should rather become a kind of hub? Or "re-become" rather: the "featured feeds" box mentioned above had that function. We could decide on a tag to make stuff posted elsewh

Re: [DDN] Welcome Back to DDN!

2008-02-28 Thread Claude Almansi
Thank you so much, Michael and All of You at TIG Claude ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: [DDN] Decreasing the Digital Divide

2008-02-25 Thread Claude Almansi
and SMS in an ad-supported system, you would still have the problem of the traffic infrastructure. Best Claude -- Claude Almansi CH-6532 Castione gruppo di lavoro Noi Media www.noimedia.org Swiss Internet User Group www.siug.ch ___ DIG

Re: [DDN] Fwd: re New YouTube channel for non-profits

2008-02-25 Thread Claude Almansi
Hi Kelvin and All Thanks for the further information about the Non Profit Program of YouTube. Re: On 10/6/07, K Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >(...) > > There is no question that the YouTube program is US-focused. None. I > can only hope that Google/YouTube is trying this out on some low > hang

Re: [DDN] AOL, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! Unite to Advance Online Media Captioning

2007-10-05 Thread Claude Almansi
CAPTCHA for the comments (and all blocked - fortunately - by the antispam filter of the platform). And it would be great if Google refrained from buying existing online captioning solutions and from slowing them down with their statistics feature. Best Claude -- Claude Almansi v. C

[DDN] Fwd: re New YouTube channel for non-profits

2007-10-05 Thread Claude Almansi
as a > distribution medium for your campaigns. It has worked very well for > us. > > PS. Press release attached... > > Kelvin {at} > YouthNoise.org > > --- > > See YouthNoise featured on YouTube (http://youtube.com/nonprofits; > http://youtube.com/y

[DDN] Spam on the raise in blog/podcast comments?

2007-09-26 Thread Claude Almansi
co-initiator of the "Accessibilità del Web in Ticino" project, of which the podcast with Gabriele Ghirlanda was part of an initiative. . -- Claude Almansi CH-6532 Castione cell. +41 (0)76 401 85 69 gruppo di lavoro Noi Media www.noimedia.org Swiss Internet User Group www.siug.ch ___

Re: [DDN] Speaker on Digtial Divide

2007-09-05 Thread Claude Almansi
Charles, Kristine and All On 9/4/07, Kristine Mainland White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Charles- > > I attended the Digital Divide Summit at NECC in 2006 > http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Professional_Development/Programm > ing_at_NECC/Summits1/200610/Steering_and_Advisory_Committee_M

Re: [DDN] DDN Survey, with a better link

2007-07-25 Thread Claude Almansi
to which he then added the better link mentioned in the subject line: <http://tinyurl.com/3avoj3> Sorry again, Adam. Best Claude On 7/23/07, Claude Almansi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Adam > > I answered the survey a few days ago. But now I would write that the >

Re: [DDN] DDN Survey, with a better link

2007-07-24 Thread Claude Almansi
Hi Adam I answered the survey a few days ago. But now I would write that the top priority is what you wrote me about the "back office" - make it easier to detect spammers and "hackers". Best Claude On 7/19/07, Adam Clare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's a working link to the survey: > > htt

Re: [DDN] Questions about Second Life

2007-05-22 Thread Claude Almansi
t, though. Best Claude (1) The odd situation is due to the fact it's awkward to take a snapshot of the front of your avatar, so I took it off some cliff where there were no other avatars in sight to see me turning and stopping. -- Claude Almansi v. Cantonale 22 CH-6532 Castione grupp

[DDN] Questions about Second Life

2007-05-16 Thread Claude Almansi
What is the sletiquette if there is another avatar nearby in such cases? You make the avatar jump into a bush? You chat normally as you get dressed? Best Claude -- Claude Almansi v. Cantonale 22 CH-6532 Castione tel. +41 (0)91 829 04 51 cell. +41 (0)76 401 85 69 gruppo di lavoro Noi Media www.noimedi

[DDN] IFPI's threats against DJ's are backfiring, according to Tages-Anzeiger. Yet...

2007-05-14 Thread Claude Almansi
hings like "5000 Franconias" (for CHF 5000). (2) See Bernhard Heinser's "Statement wegen Urheberrecht - Schutzausnahme - Umgehungsverbot" http://www.siug.ch/URG/statement-sbszh-2007-05-08 (again, Google language tools will give the gist), and in English, my (human) transl

Re: [DDN] [SIUG-discuss] Internet video player with switchable multilingual subtitles and inserted smaller window for Sign Language version

2007-05-03 Thread Claude Almansi
On 5/3/07, Norbert Bollow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Claude Almansi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > "A Flash player with Smil support to meet GL 1.2, SC 1.2.5" > > <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2007AprJun/0080.html>, > >

[DDN] Internet video player with switchable multilingual subtitles and inserted smaller window for Sign Language version

2007-05-03 Thread Claude Almansi
transcript of Amanda Baggs' original subtitles, plus the French, German, and Italian captioning files by Anna Veronese and me in http://noimedia.wikispaces.com/Amanda+Baggs, which Marietta Cathomas used when she accepted to do the Grischun-Rumantsch captioning (which I in turn copy-pasted i

[DDN] Fwd: [pakistanictpolicy] Various alternative hardware access solutions from across the globe

2007-04-26 Thread Claude Almansi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ -- Claude Almansi CH-6532 Castione gruppo di lavoro Noi Media www.noimedia.org Swiss Internet User Group www.siug.ch ___ DIGITALDIVID

[DDN] $165 laptop

2007-03-25 Thread Claude Almansi
_ultra_2000_specs.html (2) Explorer would have too, but I'm too used to tab browsing and all my Firefox extension to go back to Explorer 6.0. -- Claude Almansi v. Cantonale 22 CH-6532 Castione tel. +41 (0)91 829 04 51 cell. +41 (0)76 401 85 69 gruppo di lavoro Noi

[DDN] Fwd: "Linux isn't compatible with most existing computers"

2007-03-25 Thread Claude Almansi
ow how to pick important discussion topics at Digg. But as to: > > or you can save your mouse clicks for something more important > than freedom. Actually, so far, I haven't digged it, because if I do, wouldn't I contribute to promoting the article you pinpointed? Best C

[DDN] Fwd: This Week in Internet & Society [Digital Inequalities]

2007-03-16 Thread Claude Almansi
nt, we can have a listening/viewing party in SL. Previous classes have found this assignment particularly helpful. So why not try your hand at it? See you tomorrow, GeoffMcG Xi -- Claude Almansi v. Cantonale 22 CH-6532 Castione tel. +41 (0)91 829 04 51 cell. +41 (0)76 401 85 69 gruppo di lavor

[DDN] WGBH Releases "CC for Flash" - Free Tool to Simplify Captioning for Flash

2007-03-16 Thread Claude Almansi
can be seen in http://noimedia.wikispaces.com/Amanda+Baggs Best Claude Almansi Bcc: Anna Veronese, Luca Mascaro On 08 Mar 2007 12:24:11 -0500, Mary Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > CONTACT: > Mary Watkins > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > phone: 617 300-3700 voice > 617 300-2489 T

[DDN] Casting Words audio transcripts done by Mechanical Turks

2007-03-06 Thread Claude Almansi
parently enough such willing machine slaves to make businesses like Casting Words and Amazon's Mechanical Turks profitable. And this means that they are undercutting the prices in general. The market is the market is the market, I know. But I'm going to find someone who can make a button sayi

Re: [DDN] panel discussion video on youtube

2007-02-20 Thread Claude Almansi
:D Phil, brilliant! I made a window pane at http://mojiti.com/kan/2351/4368 through which folks can view your video and on which they can add comments - for those who still are of the "The keyboard is mightier than the webcam" persuasion. Best Claude Claude Almansi CH-653

Re: [DDN] A Stand Against Wikipedia

2007-02-09 Thread Claude Almansi
with links to the audio recording and class notes (1). One of the interesting thing in that class was that two of the attendants were actually very active in Wikipedia - one actually being a member of the Wikimedia foundation. Best Claude Claude Almansi CH-6532 Castione www.noimedia.org w

Re: [DDN] bundle screencasting software with new macs

2007-02-07 Thread Claude Almansi
i thing is recording my every move on the screen. But I use it to re-record movies I have captione using MAGpie http://ncam.wgbh.org/webaccess/magpie/ - until I find a way to have a folder online where I can put both the captions and the movie, which is how you are meant to use MAGpie. Best Clau

Re: [DDN] Interactive TV: What will Joost™ offer that Democracy Player doesn't already?

2007-01-29 Thread Claude Almansi
Hi Andy Thank you for all the info about Joost/Venice. Sure, interacting with other users while watching TV might be useful, say, if a work group studies/edits a video together at distance - but then can't they use a chat in another window? Oh well, I guess it's a question of generation - mayb

[DDN] Interactive TV: What will Joost™ offer that Democracy Player doesn't already?

2007-01-26 Thread Claude Almansi
ers. OK, this post is partisan, and by necessity uninformed due to Joost™'s hard-to-get promotion tactics. I'll be happy to be contradicted. There is room for both Joost™ and Democracy, probably. It's just that Joost™ seems to be to Democracy what Encarta is to Wikipedia - and

[DDN] Off-Topic?: Anyone wishing to open a gmail account?

2006-10-31 Thread Claude Almansi (BW)
of these invitations. Best Claude Claude Almansi CH-6532 Castione http://noimedia.iobloggo.com ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message

[DDN] 2500-year old DIY antispam

2006-10-30 Thread Claude Almansi (BW)
; server inboxes a) missed more than half the spams; b) put the ones it caught in a folder from which they didn't get downloaded with the rest of the e-mails, forcing users to periodically check their account via web to delete them, lest their storage get clogged up. So I switched