Re: [DDN] google's new literacy web site

2006-10-05 Thread Claude Almansi (BW)
wse through -- they're inspired to think bigger, write more and film more," said Joan Kim, the group's director of education. The service also uses Google's mapping technology to help literacy organizations find each other, and provides links to reading resources.

Re: [DDN] google's new literacy web site

2006-10-05 Thread Claude Almansi (BW)
in the URL window,hit return and showed me there were other search engines in the bookmarks. That's what the Google part of the Literacy project does, and that's what is needed if you want to get tech-reluctant educators to use tech tools for furthering literacy. Best Claude Claude

[DDN] [Fwd: [Cc-icommons] Free Culture presents: Down with DRM Video Contest]

2006-09-19 Thread Claude Almansi (BW)
Hi DDNers Several of you are gifted video makers: so I thought this might interest you. My apologies for possible cross-postings. Best Claude Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland www.adisi.ch Original Message Subject: [Cc-icommons] Free Culture presents: Down with DRM Video

[DDN] Dropping Knowledge Roundtable tomorrow (Sept 9, 2006)

2006-09-08 Thread Claude Almansi (BW)
Hi All, I have removed the PDF attachment in forwarding Mia Garlick's communique below. If you wish to have it, please write to me off-list, but actually, the same content can be found at <http://www.droppingknowledge.org/bin/dk?ph=press_release_popup&pressReleaseID=22> Best

Re: [DDN] Carolyn Riddle Wikipedia on low-costs PCs must be live!

2006-08-13 Thread Claude Almansi (BW)
ticle in its current form is a patchwork of occasionally contradictory points which does not attempt general coherence and therefore poorly represents the subject matter and utterly fails to provide a general overview for the benefit of the vast majority of readers." IMHO the prob

Re: [DDN] DDN milestone: 10,000 user accounts!

2006-07-07 Thread Claude Almansi (BW)
ers from Switzerland: maybe we could organize a mini local DDN pow-wow some time (1) Best Claude Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland www.adisi.ch (1) Meanwhile, for those within reaching range of Zurich: *** Freitag, 7.

[DDN] "P2P pirate hunting" not so efficient in Sweden and Israel: international relevance

2006-06-04 Thread Claude Almansi (BW)
wielding the US Supreme Court's decision in the Grokster case are not always successful. Finally, for those of you living near Zurich, Rasmus Fleisher will present The Pirate Bay and related initiatives (in English) in an event entitled "The Grey Commons", organised by Digitale Al

[DDN] GEMA (Germany) has announced a tax on music in podcasts as from this summer

2006-05-28 Thread Claude Almansi (BW)
errechtsverletzungen e.V." i.e. Society for the Prosecution of Copyright Violations (dunno what the e.V. part means). Other people have called this "GVU Mitarbeiter" a troll in their comments, sure. Nevertheless, this is even more worrying. Best Claude Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerla

Re: [DDN] Microsoft: Open source 'not reliable or dependable'

2006-05-23 Thread Claude Almansi (BW)
uality updates for security vulnerabilities without exposure to malicious attackers while the update is being developed.< So, warning users when the vulnerability has already been not only discovered, but exploited, is what puts users at risk, according to Microsoft.. Best Claude Cla

Re: [DDN] Appeal for supporting/contributing to establishing NEW MEDIA TV FOR HUMANITY

2006-05-01 Thread Claude Almansi (BW)
ion: can you have a videocast or podcast with enclosures in a free format? Say, .ogg instead of .mp3 for audio? Best Claude Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland ADISI Associazione di Diritto Informatico della Svizzera Italiana www.adisi.ch Tam Tam broadcast: www.adisi.ch/tamtam Bcc to Emmanuel M

[DDN] BSA forbidden to use its acronym alone, and the bsa.ch domain in Switzerland

2006-04-29 Thread Claude Almansi (BW)
torted that if people landed by mistake on the pirate-hunters' site when they wanted the architects' federation site, this would indeed harm the architects' federation good name, due to the aggressive pirate-fighters' "Period of grace campaign". And the court found the ar

Re: [DDN] song composed as shoutback to new york times article

2006-04-18 Thread Claude Almansi (BW)
UNESCO Switzerland has set various NGO's a survey about future post-WSIS action re access to information. I'll quote you. best Claude Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland www.adisi.ch ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailma

[DDN] Citizen journalism: Macchiaradio's podcast on Italian elections

2006-04-14 Thread Claude Almansi (BW)
scription settings for the Macchiaradio one. (2) Considering the short length of the excerpts, the fact they were arguably "background noise" - and the nature of the comments, this is fair use, isn't it? Best wishes, and happy Easter Claude Claude Almansi Castione, Svizz

Re: [DDN] [Multilingualism in Cyberspace] Perhaps more complex than that

2006-02-14 Thread Claude Almansi
IT applications in French is far more limited than in English. cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi @ bluewin.ch www.adisi.ch ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/lis

[DDN] Adding a mouse-over caption to a picture in a DDN blog by using flickr.com: easy tip

2006-02-04 Thread Claude Almansi
height="326" alt="Mauro Biani Caricature" />. I replaced "Photo Sharing" with the English translation of the Italian text in the cartoon. (3) http://cavoliamerenda.iobloggo.com. "Cavoli a merenda" literally means "cabbages for an afternoon snack", b

[DDN] Question on configuring/disabling Spamassassin

2006-02-04 Thread Claude Almansi
active again after being disabled? Is there a way to permanently disable it? Thanks for your patience and for your potential answers. Claude Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi @ bluewin.ch ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing

Re: [DDN] article in progress - "what is rss and how will it benefit me?"

2006-01-31 Thread Claude Almansi
t of Switzerland, have an even greater need for the advantages of IT innovations such as RSS feeds. (1) I wish our national broadcasting corporation would find a way to produce meaningful URLs - shorter one for La capsule de Pain: <http://tinyurl.com/a3uuz>. Best Claude Claude Alma

[DDN] New Informal DDN Help discussion board - but help needed

2006-01-30 Thread Claude Almansi
ple who are tech competent please kindly check this board from time to time, to see if there are new unanswered questions? It would only be until TIG people fix the hacked bords and index page. Thank you in advance, cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland http://www.adisi.ch http

[DDN] "WSISBlogs.org" after WSIS

2006-01-25 Thread Claude Almansi
later (tags: Easongate davos WEF webcred blog blogs) - Scobleizer - Microsoft Geek Blogger » I'm pushing for more transparency, here's why "Note to Microsoft employees: if you aren't transparent about when you deal with governments you will hand your competitors a huge adv

Re: [DDN] New Literacy Portal launched - UNESCO

2006-01-14 Thread Claude Almansi
27;t see when I did the html editing. cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi @ bluewin.ch www.adisi.ch ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To

[DDN] Corporate responsibility : Reporters Without Borders urges Internet users and bloggers to support its recommendations on freedom of expression.

2006-01-10 Thread Claude Almansi
- Read the rest of this page at <http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=16121> -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.

Re: [DDN] New Literacy Portal launched - UNESCO

2006-01-08 Thread Claude Almansi
adable squiggle of a signature for the first introductory text is not very helpful: you have to read the second introductory text to find out that the squiggle corresponds to "Laura Bush". -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi @ blue

Re: [DDN] seeking feedback: DDN volunteer job descriptions

2006-01-05 Thread Claude Almansi
rs Claude -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi @bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages ___ DIGITALDIVIDE ma

Re: [DDN] Meta Message -- Digital Literacy Matters -- Illinois and around the world

2005-12-21 Thread Claude Almansi
;s so 1970's. And you might be meta-ed back: one could say, for instance, that the "meta" of sending a 4000-word essay in a 1039kb e-mail to a large mailing-list, is that the sender doesn't care a fig about his co-listers' internet access conditions... Best wishes,

[DDN] Questions on Google cache, Unisys and Swiss epower initiative

2005-12-13 Thread Claude Almansi
because the connection was actually severed or because it was embarrassing, I don't know. Thanks for your patience - and for your answers. Claude Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland www.adisi.ch (1) Source text for the translated passage above: http://www.epower-initiative.ch/de/1

Re: [DDN] protopage web service - recommended

2005-12-08 Thread Claude Almansi
t www.wikispaces.com. Very userfriendly with a visual editor that almost always really givees shows you what you'll get. But I'm just plainly fascinated by the wiki world, to be honest. That you can make a structure then completely change it so easily if new things come up.

[DDN] "Swiss epower": how come a PDF, though unlocked, stutters when copied into a text file?

2005-12-03 Thread Claude Almansi
d Claude (1) I know because I tested the signing form by entering Name: "Pinocchio" - Surname: "Justtestingyourform", but indicating a real e-mail address and no automatic confirmation request arrived there. -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi @ bl

[DDN] Re: [Fwd: Cancelation of side-events in Tunis] - mirrors for Citizens-summit.org? URL for the English Statement

2005-11-15 Thread Claude Almansi
Claude Almansi wrote: Hi all The e-mail below was sent to the comunica-ch mailing-list. I'll send the URL for the ENglish version of the statement when I find/get it. The statement of which I forwarded the French version before is quoted in English in <http://www.netzpolitik.

[DDN] [Fwd: Cancelation of side-events in Tunis] - mirrors for Citizens-summit.org?

2005-11-15 Thread Claude Almansi
SCSI : [EMAIL PROTECTED], Presse : [EMAIL PROTECTED] summit.org Informations générales : [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi @ bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digi

[DDN] Re: [WWWEDU] WSISBlogs Update

2005-11-14 Thread Claude Almansi
ot;email">Enter your email to subscribe:name="email" maxlength="255" type="text" size="26" id="email" />/> type="submit" value="Subscribe me!" />id="poweredByFeedBlitz">Powered by href=&qu

Re: [DDN] Europe's digital divide (fwd)

2005-11-12 Thread Claude Almansi
f prevention, but it is not enough, per se. (1) another description of this Pew report was sent on 3/11/05 by Doug Johnson to the WWWEDU discussion list <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwwedu>. See also Marc Ahnless' and Nancy Willard's replies there. Have a nice week-end Claude

[DDN] [Fwd: Sommet Citoyen] Citizens' Summit on the Information Society (CSIS) website

2005-11-10 Thread Claude Almansi
mations. Le site sera alimenté de nouvelles au fur et à mesure du déroulement des événements. Le lieu exact sera également indiqué sur le site en temps voulu... ou possible http://www.citizens-summit.org/ Chantal Peyer comunica-ch - plateforme suisse pour la société de l'inf

Re: [DDN] Terminology & its discontents (Re: Third World) "emerging countries"?

2005-11-08 Thread Claude Almansi
are also quite frequent. Though the phrase doesn't appear in the UN Millenium Development Goals themselves, it did in the discussion, according to <http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2003/webArticles/03_MDGs.asp> cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi

Re: [DDN] NEWS: My departure from EDC & the future of DDN

2005-11-08 Thread Claude Almansi
ermath is not an educational project, granted, but it is a great illustration of how blog potential can be exploited. cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/lan

[DDN] What if "fair" and "accountable" don't translate?

2005-10-23 Thread Claude Almansi
tions and/or comments on these issues, please join the discussion there. All the best Claude (1) i.e. "Blog on Internet: a weapon of mass information that requires caution". If you speak French and have a broadband connection, you can download "Blo

Re: [DDN] On Blogging and Other Stuff =Sunday, 10-16-05

2005-10-17 Thread Claude Almansi
l military cadets. Oops, thanks for the explanation, Andy - and my apologies for the misunderstanding, Peter: apart my ignorance of American culture, the recurring war theme in your post also bent my (mis)understanding of the word. cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland clau

Re: [DDN] On Blogging and Other Stuff =Sunday, 10-16-05

2005-10-16 Thread Claude Almansi
weapons of mass destruction at any mention of plans to revive the Babel project. All the best, Claude -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi @ bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADISI http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www

[DDN] [Fwd: [FOSS-PDI] Sahana Heroes bring Sahana to Pakistan in response to South Asia Earthquakes]

2005-10-16 Thread Claude Almansi
ry FOSSFP: Free & Open Source Software Foundation of Pakistan R Phone #: 92 (042) 111-923-923 Ext: 27 Cell #: 92-333-4661290 e-mail: bajwa @ fossfp.org Lahore-Pakistan. URL: www.fossfp.org Ubuntu-Pakistan URL: www.ubuntu-pk.org -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.al

Re: [DDN] WSIS - Campaign to support Shirin Abadi as opening speaker

2005-10-16 Thread Claude Almansi
. Best Claude -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi @ bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages ___ DIGITALDIVIDE

[DDN] [Fwd: [saldwr] Website on Kashmir Quake Relief]

2005-10-14 Thread Claude Almansi
egards, Yoginder Sikand -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi @ bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADISI http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages NB

Re: [DDN] Celebrating 11 Years of Blogging - Sort Of

2005-10-14 Thread Claude Almansi
Many happy returns, Andy! And thanks for having always shared your tech forrays with others. Selkirk/Crusoe might have been mightily p*ssed off if he'd gone back to his island after 11 years and found a Club Med resort there. Not you. Claude -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switze

Re: [DDN] Intellectual Property Rights

2005-10-14 Thread Claude Almansi
it is vital for career purposes. On the other hand, though, Lulu allows authors to buy their books at a discounted price (without the author's commission) and postage can be reduced for bulk shipping. This would enable academics to order copies at a more reasonable price, and send them for

Re: [DDN] Intellectual Property Rights

2005-10-13 Thread Claude Almansi
re now digitally "protecting" there works, which means that non-tech-minded users can't make a legitimate personal copy for their own use, while tech-minded folks wishing to break the law override the protections without problems. cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi Casti

Re: [DDN] Devices help the blind cross 'tech divide'

2005-10-09 Thread Claude Almansi
d, and to organize and lobby through the internet. Switzerland in particularly backwards in this, granted. But I wonder if this deciders' tech and tech-accessibility illiteracy isn't slowing down progress elsewhere too. Claude -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.almans

Re: [DDN] Tunisians conduct online protest - alternative URL

2005-10-09 Thread Claude Almansi
hese cyber dissidents if they were caught by the Tunisian police. No matter the response, though, it serves as another reminder of the ackwardness of having the World Summit on the Information Society hosted in Tunisia. -andy -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi_a

[DDN] [Fwd: [Net-Gold] DISASTERS: EARTHQUAKES : NEWS: Over 1, 000 Killed in Earthquake in Pak, POK]

2005-10-08 Thread Claude Almansi
rs/davidd.html> <http://www.kovacs.com/medref-l/medref-l.html> <http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/net-gold.html> <http://www.LIFEofFlorida.org> Digital Divide Network <http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/jwne> -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi_at_bluewin.

Re: [DDN] an office suite accessible from within a web browser

2005-10-06 Thread Claude Almansi
so I didn't ask about this. If someone is interested, I could, though - or I could put you in touch individually with the authors of the tutorial. cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi_at_bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/C

Re: [DDN] Internet Applications Via Cell Phone?

2005-10-02 Thread Claude Almansi
cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi_at_ bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages NB La mia messaggeria di posta elettronica è impostata p

[DDN] IFLA, WSIS and intellectual freedom in Tunisia (originally sent by Danielle Mincio to the comunica-ch mailing list)

2005-09-29 Thread Claude Almansi
ts: postbank 351460; abn-amro nv, the hague 51 36 38 911; vat number: nl 0028 70 836 b01 -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/

[DDN] [Fwd: Growing Concerns about Summit Host Country Tunisia] (Summit=WSIS)

2005-09-29 Thread Claude Almansi
ation. This is not the case – quite to the contrary. http://www.worldsummit2003.de/en/web/795.htm -- There is even a video of the incident: http://www.worldsummit2003.de/download_en/Moncef_Achour_prepcom3.AVI Daniel comunica-ch - plateforme suisse pour la société de l'information --

Thank you for your immense patience, Cedar, and best wisshes (was Re: [DDN] Cedar Pruitt's departure from DDN)

2005-09-15 Thread Claude Almansi
you should get a new rewarding job - but I'll miss you a lot. Best wishes for your future. Claude -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi(at)bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADISI http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivid

[DDN] Learning Networks Through Cross-Aggregation? - I would be grateful for a critical reading

2005-09-10 Thread Claude Almansi
your comments either in the comments to <http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/Claude/view?PostID=6259>, or by e-mailing me directly. Thank you in advance, Have nice week-end! Claude -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi_at_bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch h

Re: [DDN] projecting Katrina onto the midwest and northeast

2005-09-10 Thread Claude Almansi
we're talking about. The results were quite chilling. That's an area between 3 and 4 times Switzerland (41,000 square kilometers). Thank you for the sobering lesson. Claude -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi_at_bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.n

Re: [DDN] Technology Review Magazine TR35

2005-09-06 Thread Claude Almansi
nnovation to bridge inequalities. It is thrilling to see how new tech applications get explored in their potentialities, and the striving to explain them in as simple a manner as possible. Thanks, Andy and all DDNers! Claude -- Claude Almansi claude.almansi_at_bluewin.ch http:

Re: [DDN] Making the Astrodome CTC the Rule, Not the Exception

2005-09-06 Thread Claude Almansi
mportant for people who have no tech experience at all, have literacy problems and are traumatized. Perhaps it could also be provided by other displaced people who have basic tech literacy. cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi claude.almansi_at_bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldi

Re: [DDN] Making the Astrodome CTC the Rule, Not the Exception

2005-09-05 Thread Claude Almansi
en I remember a thread here 2 (?) years ago, but I cannot remember by whom, about using adapted big lorries for a CTC. Bye Claude -- Claude Almansi claude.almansi_at_bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.di

[DDN] [Fwd: Huricane Katrina Information Sources and Informative Postings]

2005-09-05 Thread Claude Almansi
From David P. Dillard All the best Claude Original Message Subject: Huricane Katrina Information Sources and Informative Postings Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 08:44:45 -0400 (EDT) From: David P. Dillard To: Claude Almansi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Here is another post you may w

[DDN] [Fwd: [Net-Gold] IN CASE OF EMERGENCY, PUT YOUR CELL ON "ICE"] - even more important in the wake of Katrina

2005-09-04 Thread Claude Almansi
n after the London terrorist bombings in July. [SOURCE: USAToday, AUTHOR:] <http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/life/20050816/bl_bottomstrip16.art.htm> [tinyurl <http://tinyurl.com/bbwkg>] -- Claude Almansi claude_almansi_at_bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivid

Alert Retrieval Cache (ARC) (was Re: [DDN] SMS vs phones: a New Orleans perspective)

2005-09-03 Thread Claude Almansi
en with no internet connection directly at hand. cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages ___ DIGITALDIV

[DDN] [Fwd: [Cc-icommons] Call for Proposals - Fellowships on Open Information Policy]

2005-08-26 Thread Claude Almansi
I am only forwarding this, so if you need further information, please contact Vera Franz. cheers Claude PS for Andy: I have left Vera Franz' address for contact purpose, but changing the @ in _at_ . I hope it's OK? Claude Almansi claude.almansi_at_bluewin.ch http://www.adi

[DDN] Browsers automatically call search engines - influence on market share of browsers and search engines?

2005-08-26 Thread Claude Almansi
automatically transefered to google.ch) cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi claude.almansi_at_bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailm

Re: [DDN] connecting with others in the Digital Divide Network community

2005-08-26 Thread Claude Almansi
sive ;-) See <http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro>. cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi claude.almansi_at_bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages ___

Re: [DDN] DDN's bonnie bracey profiled in the new york times

2005-08-22 Thread Claude Almansi
the NYT profile into Italian for the ADISI blog - but I'm stumped with "crusader": a male crusader is a crociato - but a crociata is a cruise*. Would "militante" (militant) be OK with you? cheers Claude *Latin languages are a bit sexist about jobs and roles..

[DDN] [Fwd: [ISOC-members-announce] World Summit Youth Award]

2005-08-19 Thread Claude Almansi
Hi I am forwarding the message below by David McAuley's kind permission. Best Claude claude.almansi_at_bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude Original Message Subject: [ISOC-members-announce] World Summit Youth Award Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 15:

Re: [DDN] Grassroots Particpation in Policy Advocacy - Survey Report by WSIS Grassroots Caucus

2005-07-27 Thread Claude Almansi
laude Bcc to Anuradha -- Claude Almansi claude.almansi_at_bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages NB My e-mail client is set on accepting only e-mails under 200kb. (*) If you

Re: [DDN] [Fwd: Réaction des bibliothécai res à la censure en Chine] Librarians' reaction to censorship in China

2005-07-19 Thread Claude Almansi
Rebecca MacKinnon wrote: Thanks Claude. Is this statement available online anywhere that we can link to? Yes, sorry, I should have checked before forwarding the whole thing as I received it: cheers Claude __

[DDN] [Fwd: Réaction des bibliothécaires à la cens ure en Chine] Librarians' reaction to censorship in Ch ina

2005-07-18 Thread Claude Almansi
Hi All The IFLA's "call on the Chinese government to end censorship of internet access and allow freedom of expression online", below, was forwarded to the mailing list of comunica-ch (www.comunica-ch.net) by Danielle Mincio. cheers Claude Claude Almansi http://ww

Re: [DDN] HI TO ALL

2005-07-10 Thread Claude Almansi
Hi Chibuzo Welcome to the list! Claude (another member) -- Claude Almansi http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send

Re: [DDN] creativity begets creativity

2005-06-29 Thread Claude Almansi
Libster in <http://storyteller.net/articles/73> - not Rodari's best one, unfortunately. cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages ___ DIG

[DDN] Is there a connection between the Ubuntu Declaration and Ubuntu software?

2005-06-20 Thread Claude Almansi
t beyod that? Thank you in advance for your answers. Maybe it is better if you send them to me off-list, as this kind of philological curiosity might not be shared by all :-D cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile

Re: [DDN] podcast me a lecture

2005-06-15 Thread Claude Almansi
of each lecture. Podcasting makes a lot more sense. If someone is lecturing frontally, being present in 3D doesn't add much to the experience. cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net

[DDN] French translation of the Ubunto declaration - anyone game for editing a draft?

2005-06-15 Thread Claude Almansi
At one point I'll have to learn how to use a wiki for that kind of things. Once the editing is finished, maybe we could post it either as a DDN article or upload it as a document at a DDN community? cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digita

[DDN] [Fwd: [Cc-icommons] Pre-Release Press Release: openDemocracy.net's Global Network of Writers Adopt Creative Commons Licensing]

2005-06-15 Thread Claude Almansi
k Editor +1 646 220-1459 solana.larsen_at_openDemocracy.net Neeru Paharia, Creative Commons Executive Director +1 415 946-3068 neeru_at_creativecommons.org Press Kit: http://creativecommons.org/presskit >> cheers Claude Claude Almansi http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claud

[DDN] [Fwd: Open Access News von FQS]

2005-05-31 Thread Claude Almansi
esearch.net . Apology to Myriam Schweingruber for the repetition. Have a nice day! Claude Almansi http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude Original Message Subject: Open Access News von FQS Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 08:45:02 +0200 From: Daniel Boos To: [EMAI

[DDN] [Fwd: [Cc-icommons] Bloglines for iCommons]

2005-05-18 Thread Claude Almansi
Hi Yong Liu posted the message below to the CC-icommons mailing-list . Here is the list of the RSS feeds at : iCommons's Feeds [Technorati] "Creative Commons "

Re: [DDN] anticipating a community need

2005-05-06 Thread Claude Almansi
stats" or "Attiva servizio" in the home page or go straight to http://www.freestat.ws/index.asp?page=/comuni/iscriviti.asp cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http:/

Re: [DDN] Intellectual Property and the Information Ecosystem

2005-05-05 Thread Claude Almansi
e reference anymore. As far as I remember, Declan McCullaugh wrote this comparison in the description of a round table he moderated at an H2O2 meeting, in Summer 2002 (?). -- Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.ed

Re: [DDN] emergency alert emails get treated like spam (fwd)

2005-05-05 Thread Claude Almansi
underblock and overblock. And the overblocking of hurricane alerts should really make providers stop that. cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/l

Re: [DDN] Bobby reporting improved

2005-04-27 Thread Claude Almansi
e File source on Accessibility Failures Not being tech literate, I don't always understand Cynthia Says' results (1). But it would be grat if you and other people who are knowledgeable could try it too and report about it. cheers Claude Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch Bcc to Michael Burkes, IS

Re: [DDN] FW When iPod goes collegiate

2005-04-25 Thread Claude Almansi
e precious information. Would it be possible to integrate a link to this discussion in one of the existing DDN communities? I'm not sure wich, though. Perhaps http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/access or http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/content ? cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi www

[DDN] FW When iPod goes collegiate

2005-04-22 Thread Claude Almansi
Hi All One odd thing about this article: podcasting gets mentioned only once, between bracket. Interesting queries about copyright issues raised by students' ability to record a course and put it on the Net. cheers Claude Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch Original Message Date

Re: [DDN] blog: The Mystery of the Food Pyramid

2005-04-21 Thread Claude Almansi
ew Technologies) is one of the first e-learning sites Bonnie Bracey introduced me to, 5 years ago. The visual interface hasn't changed since: why should it, if it works? cheers -- Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIG

Re: [DDN] [Net-Gold] Pope Podcast Hints At Broadcast Revolution

2005-04-14 Thread Claude Almansi
oliticians pulling the strings of the above youth project that a workshop on podcasting makes sense... cheers Claude Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide

[DDN] [Fwd: The Cellphone as Church Chronicle, Creating Digital Relics (NY Times)]

2005-04-09 Thread Claude Almansi
Is popecasting wrong, perhaps? Well, *this* Pope launched the Popemobile, after all. Claude Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch Original Message Subject: The Cellphone as Church Chronicle, Creating Digital Relics (NY Times) Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 10:34:23 -0400 From: Steve Brant To

Re: [DDN] Worrying Trouble at South Asian Tribune's Forums

2005-04-02 Thread Claude Almansi
ely, you will agree that there can be no freedom of speech - no matter what "flavour of openness" is available in other authorized media - as long as a single one is censored. Cordially Claude -- Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch ___ DIGIT

[DDN] [Fwd: ATTN SAT USERS: SOME FORUMS RE-OPENED, SOME USERS SUSPENDED]

2005-04-01 Thread Claude Almansi
IP addresses thus cannot be checked. Hats off cheers Claude Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude Original Message Subject: ATTN SAT USERS: SOME FORUMS RE-OPENED, SOME USERS SUSPENDED Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 16:53:03 -0500 (EST) From: [EMAIL

[DDN] Worrying Trouble at South Asian Tribune's Forums

2005-04-01 Thread Claude Almansi
re located where they declared they were when they signed up, and remove those who gave a false location. This is tantamount to removing from the forums all readers who live in Pakistan and have to use an anonymizer (if my understanding of anonymizers is correct). Have a good day Claude

Re: [DDN] Digital Inclusion Question

2005-03-26 Thread Claude Almansi
the DDN folder. After a few, though, I decided to have a go and opened one for ADISI at blospot.com: simpler than I thought. Same, later, with RSS feeds and podcasts. -- Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailm

[DDN] New DDN community: Linguistic and Cultural Diversity

2005-03-23 Thread Claude Almansi
x27;ll attempt to provide summaries in English. (... - sparing you the Italian and French trsl. of same) (1) Net-Gold, Digital Divide, FOSS-PDI , Information Society: Voices from the South." You are welcome to join, add resources, and discuss issues related to this theme. All the best Claude

Re: [DDN] Chirac Plans French 'Counter-Offensive' on Internet Culture

2005-03-23 Thread Claude Almansi
he French went about rivalità from the real situation, not from prejudices equating the whole of American culture with MacDo. -- Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch Native French speaker, hence particularly irritated by the official French attitude to language and cultural diversity. _

Re: [DDN] Chirac Plans French 'Counter-Offensive' on Internet Culture (fwd)

2005-03-22 Thread Claude Almansi
the project will be coordinated by people who know a search engine from a hole in the ground - even if President Chirac obviously doesn't - in order to avoid useless duplications. cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch ___ DIGITALDIVIDE m

[DDN] Call for papers "Enhancing health literacy through communication"

2005-03-17 Thread Claude Almansi
Hi Several of you are involved/interested in "Enhancing health literacy through communication", so I thought I would forward this call for papers, though I am not involved in "Studies in Communication Sciences". cheers Claude www.adisi.ch Original text: http://www.scoms.ch/calls/call_SComS_05_2_

RE: [DDN] Typing software for Windows

2005-03-11 Thread claude . almansi
e of times, don't like it so much, but the advantage is you don't have to get the whole suite, say if this person has little storage available. cheers Claude Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@

[DDN] [Fwd: [Politech] Teacher recorded mistreating child; school bans videophones [fs]]

2005-03-04 Thread Claude Almansi
out, because this would be an invasion of privacy. Maybe the lack of comment by Declan McCullagh is telling of the complexity of the policy and legal issues involved. cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch Original Message Subject: [Politech] Teacher recorded mistreating c

Re: [DDN] Parisian Wi-Fi Lessons

2005-03-03 Thread Claude Almansi
... -- Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.

Re: [DDN] A newbie is speaking...

2005-03-01 Thread Claude Almansi
teacher at least. As to the history of and scientific literature on the digital divide approach, I'll let the others answer. In Switzerland, you might wish to contact the infosociety team: www.infosociety.ch . -- Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch ___ DIGITALDI

Re: [DDN] lower-case letters in email - an explanation - DDN style sheet?

2005-02-28 Thread Claude Almansi
writing in another language than English at the DDN communities, can we follow that language's use for titles? cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/m

[DDN] [Fwd: Criticism of Tunisia Not Allowed At UN Meeting]

2005-02-25 Thread Claude Almansi
will take place in Tunisia itself. Claude Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch From: Meryem Marzouki (address deleted) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [hr-wsis] FYI - Criticism of Tunisia Not Allowed At UN Meeting Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Criticism of Tunisia Not Al

Re: [DDN] An example of how human translation can be handled on the internet.

2005-02-25 Thread Claude Almansi
entry concerning it. The system works by sending a 'ping' between the blogs, and therefore providing the alert" in this Wikipedia article: Can the second blogger refuse to be tracked back by the first blogger? cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch ___

Re: [DDN] Telecenters for Seniors; Social - Distance and Local

2005-02-24 Thread Claude Almansi
e". I suggested she should also include a part on *non institutional* communication of science, by contrast: arxiv.org , but mainly wikis, refering in particular to your "Wikis as trees" post, Taran. -- Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.

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