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

Hi All, I just downloaded - by mistake and without being aware of it (1) - a podcast: "Macchiaradio (puntata del 10/4/2006: Speciale Elezioni 2006)". As the producers write in the corresponding blog item : "Now that

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

Phil Shapiro wrote: hi DDN community - over the weekend i composed this song (and created this multimedia) as a shoutback to last month's new york times article on the digital divide. http://digg.com/technology/New_York_Times_Reporter_Tipsy_on_Digital_Divide_Progress http://

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

Sources: - "Piratenbekämpfer als Freibeuter" (Pirate fighters as filibusters). inside-it.ch, April 21, 2006 - Judgment by the first civil section of the Swiss Federal Court on BSA Business Software Alliance Inc v B

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

Fouad Riaz Bajwa wrote: Appeal to support the establishment of a Non-Profit Internet TV Broadcast Network enabling and promoting Social Justice and Sustainable Development deployed on Free and Open Source Software Technologies and Platforms through the Internet Appeal by Fouad Riaz Bajwa, FOSS Ad

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

Executive Director wrote: " That said, I do wish Microsoft luck in releasing anything soon, and I certainly hope that whatever they release doesn't permit the continued plague of flaws and vulnerabilities that the general population of the world has become familiar with. " This opinion of course

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

Hi All GEMA www.gema.de - the German collecting society for author's rights on music - has announced the levying of a lump tax on music in podcasts as from this summer. For those of you who read German, see: - GEMA Podcasting-Tarif angekündigt -

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

Hi All In Sweden, on May 31st 206, the police seized the servers of The Pirate Bay on the basis of an anti-piracy request. From the home page http://www.thepiratebay.org/ as I copied it in on June 1st: "SITE DOWN In the morning of 2006-05-31 the Swedi

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

Andy Carvin wrote: Hi everyone, Earlier today, DDN had its 10,000th user account created. The person in question, Katharina Reinecke of Switzerland, probably has no idea she helped us reach this milestone, because it appears she's just joined the website but not the email list. http://www.d

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

Hi All, Here's a granny's attempt to bring some historical context the Wikipedia vs academe question raised by Carolyn Riddle , and to which Bob Turner and David Rosen already answered. When I read for my first degree in literature at the University of Geneva in the early 70's, the Death of th

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

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 Best Claude Almansi Ca

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

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

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

Andy Carvin wrote: > Hmm... Surprised at how limited it is, both in terms > of usefulness and in its definition of literacy > -andy > > --- Phil Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>(...) http://www.google.com/literacy/ >> I think this spartan simplicity is brilliant, Andy: this is just th

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

judith green wrote: > I second Andy Carvin's Hmmm and comments. > > This site does not represent state of the art work on literacy. It > would be good to link that site with Google Scholar to support the > intellectual basis for current research on literacy and to > professional sites of the N