Re: [DDN] Interview footage from The Future of the Internet Economy - OECD Ministerial Meeting in Seoul, Korea, June 16-18, 2008.
hi On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 2:33 AM, Michel Bauwens [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Our project is an open source project. We need someone to take responsibility for transcribing the video. We have 360 hours of video. We cannot transcribe and translate all of that video ourselves! We need help! Could you not write an appeal, that we could publish in our p2p foundation resources (and others in theirs). Do you have an example of what you consider to be a successful appeal? Just seeing an example will help my creative juices flow. Thx! -- Christian Einfeldt, Producer, The Digital Tipping Point ___ 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] Interview footage from The Future of the Internet Economy - OECD Ministerial Meeting in Seoul, Korea, June 16-18, 2008.
hi On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 2:33 AM, Michel Bauwens [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I also think you should perhaps open a (video) blog, and choose a 10-minute selection every day (or at whatever realistic rhytms, even once a week. These could then be refracted and embedded on other blogs, giving your project more visilbility. Well, we are not yet really large enough as a community to be able to implement this suggestion. There are three phases to our work: 1) build a library of footage on the Internet Archive's Digital Tipping Point; 2) cut out the best 10 hours and make that available to our module directors who will interpret it into 5 segments of 20 minutes each; 3) stitch those 5 segments into our final feature. Lots and lots of people have made suggestions as to _how_ to do stuff. I am okay with those suggestions, as long as people actually commit to carrying out the suggestions that they make. That is how our community has grown. People will make suggestions, and I encourage them to turn their ideas into reality. We do have a decent core group of about 2 hardware specialists; one BASH developer; 6 rough video editors; one web developer; and one music contributor. Each of them does the stuff that they say they will do, and that is how we have gotten this far. So the problem with doing video blogs is it would pull us away from completing the first phase of the project, which is getting the video up onto the Internet Archive's Digital Tipping Point Video Collection. Maybe I could make a separate appeal for someone who would take our weekly releases (usually at least 4 or 5 releases per week, sometimes much more) and put those up somewhere. You can see our new releases by going to this page: http://www.archive.org/details.php?identifier=digitaltippingpoint and scrolling down to the section that says This just in. That section will always include our 5 most recent submissions to the Internet Archive's Digital Tipping Point Video Collection. So one thing that would be really helpful is for you or anyone else who is so interested to blog about the link below and invite your readers to RSS this link: http://www.archive.org/services/collection-rss.php?collection=digitaltippingpoint For example, by RSSing that link in my Google Reader browser, I am able to see when my submissions get pushed out to other people who might be RSSing our new submissions. The beauty of RSSing our video is that you don't necessarily have to view it, but you will get a series of thumbnails pictures in your RSS reader, along with a short description, so you will be able to easily keep up on our video, so that if you see something that you know you want to view, you can either view it then or bookmark it for later viewing. Thanks again for the suggestions, Michel! I will have more replies for you later! -- Christian Einfeldt, Producer, The Digital Tipping Point ___ 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
You're right, Jayne. The good news is that there are people who are working on the same problems within virtual worlds - and those would be the next evolution. Things such as Universal Design are being championed: http://www.your2ndplace.com/node/937 As an aside, Web 2.0 is not the only thing that is lacking when it comes to such things. Mobile devices are still problematic for many of the same reasons. All of the reasons for lack of support for those that are disabled seem to be lack of effort based on financial reasons - not a lack of knowledge. Sadly, this reflects the market - as the disabled market is only a small drop in the economic bucket. Perhaps more than Section 508 (http://www.section508.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContentID=11#general ) could be worded more strongly - but without international agreement on standards and enforceability, it really means nothing. On the web, I try to integrate accessibility principles as best I can on my sites. In virtual worlds, I also try to apply them. My main push these days are on language accessibility issues. One course I would suggest is working on blogging and content management systems so that they allow for better accessibility. Not to mention web browsers. Given the right markup, accessibility could be customized to the user's context. As I recall, there was a push on that at some point, but it never became concrete... Jayne Cravens 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 being applied. There is plenty of knowledge on how to make sites accessible for people using assistive technologies or people with limited physical abilities -- you've shown a lot of it here. But can I know from all of the people posting to the Digital Divide Network: how many of you apply these accessibility principles? How many of you that supposedly address digital divide issues address accessibility issues at all for people with disabilities? Sorry to keep harping on this issue, but it seems to be the forgotten part of the Digital Divide Network. -- Taran Rampersad Presently in: San Fernando, Trinidad [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.knowprose.com http://www.your2ndplace.com Pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/knowprose/ Criticize by creating. — Michelangelo The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine. - Nikola Tesla ___ 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
Claude Almansi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually I became curious about digital things (from being previously an arrant luddite) when I saw how 2 well directed e-mails managed to convince the borough of Lugano (CH) to remove architectural barriers against people in wheelchairs they had steadfastly been heaping at a museum in the former years, against the law and in spite of the formal protests of the disabled people's federation FTIA. I think this is a very important point: Sometimes it takes only a very small amount of (wisely-directed) effort to achieve victories of local significance. This is particularly significant given that such relatively small, local victories are an essential precondition for having any hope of any large-scale trend-setting breakthroughs. For example, I would suggest that in any and all informatics projects (not only web development, but also of purely internal informatics systems) the question should be raised whether accessibility concerns are taken into consideration, and if not, why not. Greetings, Norbert -- Norbert Bollow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Informatics Management and Consulting for Adaptability and Benefit/Cost Optimization in Harmony with Human Rights and Needs ___ 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] Google Insights - social networking
I am not certain that I am in agreement with Maria Laura's definition which appears to be tautological in nature. I am also not certain that engaging in an intellectual reparte makes sense in a list where the unspoken belief is that closing a digital divide is the sine qua non for leveling the economic (and hence all others) playing field. Deal and Development are Humpty Dumpty terms ( a word means what I want it to mean). Perhaps Deal has a pejorative connotation while Development has perceived positive sensibility? Debatable! Maybe a little time, a deep breath and some philosophy/humanities to temper those standing at the ready with their Blackberry might make sense? Right now the US education system is so enamored with educating for the science/tech/engineering/math that programs for the humanities and social sciences are being mothballed. Tour the developing world and look at the Development skeletons, like Shelly's Ozymandias- the result of Deals. tom tom abeles Sarah Blackmun-Eskow wrote: What's the difference between a development phenomenon and an economic deal or phenomenon? --- ...An economic phenomenon can be almost anything related to markets, and therefore transactions. The word deal refers to this transaction view. Development, on the other hand, involves a value judgment. A development phenomenon means that something good or desirable has taken place, and different groups may make different value judgments as to the desirability or goodness of a phenomenon or situation Maria Laura -- _ See what people are saying about Windows Live. Check out featured posts. http://www.windowslive.com/connect?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_connect2_082008 ___ 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.
