[DDN] new Wikipedia category: Digital Divide activists
Hi everyone, Taran Rampersad recently posted a message to his blog, www.knowprose.com, about the fact that he's recently been added to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taran_Rampersad While reading the discussion on the entry's talk page, it occurred to me that there wasn't a category on Wikipedia for listing entries about digital divide activists. There are probably more digital divide activists in Wikipedia than I realize; just searching for a few DDN members and other colleagues I found others including Bonnie Bracey, John Maddog Hall, MS Swaminathan and Randal Pinkett. (I'm in there as well.) So, I went ahead and created a new Wikipedia page for Digital Divide activists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Digital_Divide_activists This page is automatically updated whenever a wikipedia entry has a tag added to the bottom of the page designating that entry as a digital divide activist. For example, I was able to add Bonnie's name to the list by editing her wikipedia entry and adding this code at the bottom: [[Category:Digital Divide activists|Bracey, Bonnie]] As you can see, the format is fairly simple; you just edit the last section of it to include a person's surname, followed by their first name. So if you know of anyone who's a digital divide activist and happens to be listed in Wikipedia, please feel free to add this category tag to their wikipedia entry so they will be added to the digital divide activists page. And if you know a well-known activist who should be added to wikipedia, please feel free to create a new entry from scratch - the more the merrier... andy -- -- Andy Carvin acarvin (at) edc . org andycarvin (at) yahoo . com http://www.digitaldivide.net http://www.andycarvin.com -- ___ 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.
[DDN] review of terry white's training dvd submitted to digg.com
hi DDN community members - here's a review of terry white's mac os x training dvd that i've submitted to digg.com. thanks for giving terry a mouse-clicked support by digging it. (you digg (i.e. vote your approval) of an item by clicking on the number to the left of the item.) http://digg.com/apple/A_Review_of_Terry_White_s_Mac_OS_X_Training_DVD_ - phil -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://digg.com/users/pshapiro/submitted http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html Wisdom starts with wonder. - Socrates Learning happens through gentleness. ___ 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] new Wikipedia category: Digital Divide activists
On 3/27/06, Andy Carvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, Taran Rampersad recently posted a message to his blog, www.knowprose.com, about the fact that he's recently been added to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taran_Rampersad Dear Andy, Very cool! And I love that photo of Taran. How does one get to be immortalized with a Wikipedia entry? There was one of me for a day or two, but then it was fastracked for deletion. :-( Otherwise, I would have wanted to be in the digital divide activists category. Warm regards from Deborah Deborah Elizabeth Finn Boston, Massachusetts, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blog.deborah.elizabeth.finn.com ___ 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.
[DDN] Tip About Using the Internet Archive's Free Web Hosting
hi DDN community members - here's a short news item i wrote for the monthly news of the virginia macintosh users group, a computer club i belong to here in the washington dc-area. http://www.vmug.org thought it might be of interest. - phil Tip About Using the Internet Archive's Free Web Hosting Do you have some videos you've created that you'd like to make available for the world to see? Do you own all the rights to the video? (i.e. Are the music and images in the video not copyright by someone else?) Then the free web hosting on the Internet Archive is a good choice. http://www.archive.org As an example, here is a 52-minute (400 megabyte) QuickTime file that VMUG member Phil Shapiro recently uploaded to the Internet Archive. To view this video, click on the word QuickTime in blue on the left of your screen. http://www.archive.org/details/multimediastorytelling QuickTimes are best viewed using Safari or Firefox. Internet Explorer sometimes makes you wait for the QuickTime to completely transfer before you can start watching it. Phil used Cyberduck to do the uploading. http://cyberduck.ch/ Cyberduck is a free download. You can make a donation to the creators of Cyberduck if you find the program useful. Using a cable modem, this 52-minute video took about 3 hours to upload to the Internet Archive. If you have Verizon's fiber optic service, you could probably upload this video in about an hour (or less.) Using a dual-processor G5 PowerMac, this video took about 40 minutes to export from iMovie, using Share on the File menu. All this is to say that it's entirely possible to shoot a video, edit it and upload it to the Internet Archive all on the same day. It takes about a day for the Internet Archive to release videos that have been uploaded. You can always go back and edit the description of the video from a link at the bottom left of the screen describing your video -- after you are logged in to the Internet Archive. Phil missed seeing that link and added a public comment to his video to add some extra information he forgot to include. If you have ideas for some group video projects that VMUG members can work on, you might bring them to the VMUG Multimedia special interest group (SIG.) See the Multimedia SIG blog for further information. http://web.mac.com/haly2k1/iWeb/Site/Blog/Blog.html Are you curious to learn a bit more about Brewster Kahle, the visionary who created the Internet Archive? Search for his name in the Internet Archive. You can view a video of a speech he gave at the Library of Congress in December, 2004. (Scroll down about 5 items in the search results.) If Brewster Kahle has given the world this immense gift, what's the most appropriate way of thanking him? Use the gift. -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://digg.com/users/pshapiro/submitted http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html Wisdom starts with wonder. - Socrates Learning happens through gentleness. ___ 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] new Wikipedia category: Digital Divide activists
Deborah Elizabeth Finn wrote: On 3/27/06, Andy Carvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, Taran Rampersad recently posted a message to his blog, www.knowprose.com, about the fact that he's recently been added to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taran_Rampersad Dear Andy, Very cool! And I love that photo of Taran. How does one get to be immortalized with a Wikipedia entry? There was one of me for a day or two, but then it was fastracked for deletion. :-( Otherwise, I would have wanted to be in the digital divide activists category. That's a really good question. I noticed on Taran's talk page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Taran_Rampersad) that there had been a debate as to whether his entry should remain on the site, and it hinged on whether Taran had been quoted or discussed by mainstream media. Since he'd be interviewed by the BBC and had taken a leadership role in several important online projects, the proposal to delete him got retracted. As for why yours got cut and his didn't, I'd be interested in knowing what yours said. Also, I hope you didn't create the entry yourself - self-created entries tend to get deleted as vanity articles very quickly. I hunted around the website to see what policies existed regarding this issue, and I found this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_of_vanity_articles Among the reasons so-called vanity articles get deleted: An article about a real person that does not assert that person's importance or significance - people such as college professors or actors may be individually important in society; people such as students and bakers are not, or at least not for the reason of being a student or baker. Of course, importance and significance are highly subjective. I'm guessing that when the wikipedia entry about you was created, someone came along and didn't see the importance of your work and proposed the entry should be deleted. If no one then came to argue in support of keeping your entry, it would be deleted quickly. Personally, I think you should be in there since you've done so much significant work in the nonprofit tech field. The key thing would be for someone to create a first draft that states quite clearly what makes you and your work important and significant. And I imagine it would help to be able to include links to media sources where you've been quoted, acknowledged, etc. And there should be more digital divide activists who are actings as wikipedians, too, since we know best who's done what, and what activities are deemed important to the movement. For whatever reason, Wikipedia seems to lack entries for a lot of people who've been instrumental in digital divide-related efforts. For example, I don't see an entry for Larry Irving, who as head of the NTIA during the Clinton administration almost singlehandedly raised the digital divide to a policy issue of national importance. It might be an interesting brainstorm to come up with a list of people who are leaders in the field that should be included. andy -- Andy Carvin acarvin (at) edc . org andycarvin (at) yahoo . com http://www.digitaldivide.net http://www.andycarvin.com -- ___ 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.
