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

2005-11-14 Thread Life in Hackney
This is a criticism of both the moderator of the list for allowing the posting as well as the actual contribution by Layton Olson 'LEO' I don't know whether to just say this is the biggest load of crap or to say do Americans go out of their way to make parodies of themselves - ie expressing

Re: [DDN] Returned mail I didn't send - advice needed

2005-10-22 Thread Life in Hackney
Not sure if you have already done this, but if not, you could try and work out where the fake emails are being generated from and whether it is just one IP address. To do this you need to identify the which IP address the email has been received from. Not sure how this is done in all the

[DDN] Information in disasters

2005-10-10 Thread Life in Hackney
greatly in the last 20 years, but a number of challenges remain, including standardized, systematic data collection and public accessibility to data. ... JW At 21:00 09/10/2005, Life in Hackney wrote: Or has ongoing discussion on this list led to the formation of a 'disasters relief ICT team

Re: [DDN] FOSSFP CALL FOR EARTHQUAKE DISASTER RELIEF IN SOUTH ASIA - DONATE NOW!

2005-10-09 Thread Life in Hackney
Thanks for posting this link, which I will distribute to lists I am on in the UK. With the many communities here in the UK with links to the region there has been a lot of news coverage, but as yet I have heard anything about an online database similar to those set up in response to the

Re: [DDN] Gender Divide

2005-10-09 Thread Life in Hackney
Here are some other links you could follow: UK http://www.bcs.org.uk/bcswomen/ http://www.wic.org.uk/ International http://www.apcwomen.org/ Sorry I cant give you links to these as I am working out of a temporary situation, but there is some evidence that in 'educated' western societies there

[DDN] Bobby reporting improved

2005-04-26 Thread Life in Hackney
Have just seen that 'Bobby' having been taken over by Watchfire some time ago, had undergone a makeover / upgrade. Although the free 'taster' service only offers analysis of one page, it is very extensive, but very well displayed, using four tables of informaiton on Accessibilillty, Privacy,

Re: [DDN] Current browser standards for international audiences

2005-04-24 Thread Life in Hackney
In response to Taran Rampersad's diatribe at 17:07 23/04/2005 I find your response patronising and rude and for someone who presumes to quote Criticize by creating after their signature baffling. Quite honestly I don't understand why it was distributed on the list, as it just seems to be about

Re: [DDN] Current browser standards for international audiences

2005-04-23 Thread Life in Hackney
I cant let this pass. You are totally missing the point. Ordinary users, which is what the digital divide is about - not the techies or the faddists who have time to twiddle and experiment with things - just want a tool that works. If a user Netscape 4 goes to a web page that doesn't display

Re: [DDN] Current browser standards for international audiences

2005-04-20 Thread Life in Hackney
If you go to the home page of any of the following using Netscape 4.6 they do NOT display properly. So for a 'novice' and for anyone on the other side of the digital divide who wants to easily communicate with others via the internet, and not have the technology disempower them, these are the

Re: [DDN] Current browser standards for international audiences

2005-04-15 Thread Life in Hackney
Hi Siobhan Was interested to read your posting as this is a message I recently sent to the IS Forum - ... a smallish housing charity has maintained a web site for a few years. From their web logs they know they have on average between 10-15% of visitors each month who are using Netscape 4.

[DDN] Pupils make more progress in 3Rs 'without aid of computers'

2005-03-22 Thread Life in Hackney
(sorry if already circulated - JW) Pupils make more progress in 3Rs 'without aid of computers' By John Clare, Education Editor Telegraph (Filed: 21/03/2005) The less pupils use computers at school and at home, the better they do in international tests of literacy and maths, the largest study of