U2 – Bloody Sunday

cfr http://grandipepe.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/homo-ludens/#comment-13

U2 – Bloody Sunday, posted with vodpod

La parte sopra è stata postata direttamente da http://vodpod.com/watch/56226-u2-bloody-sunday, la pagina indicata da grandipepe in un commento al suo post Homo Ludens. Il codice per l’embed è, tra parentesi quadre:

vodpod id=Video.56226&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26

Adesso embeddo lo stesso video dalla sua versione YouTube originale, usando il pulsante Upload/Insert in WordPress:

cioè, tra parentesi quadre, il codice:

youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFM7Ty1EEvs

Archiving posts written for innovateblog and etcjournal

Background

I was one of the authors of  http://innovateblog.wordpress.com, which was the blog  of the Innovate Journal of Online Education from November 3, 2008 to February 28, 2009. This blog has now disappeared, but several copies of it have been saved in the Internet Archive: the latest of these copies is http://web.archive.org/web/20091117142808/http://innovateblog.wordpress.com (November 17, 2009), from which former ones can be accessed.

In March 2009, James N. Shimabukuro, the editor  of  http://innovateblog.wordpress.com to http://etcjournal.wordpress.com, and I became an author of this new blog too. On April 20, 2010, James N. Shimabukuro redirected the http://etcjournal.wordpress.com URL to the shorter one, http://etcjournal.com. In February, 2011, he changed my status to associate administrator of the blog.

In this capacity, I oversaw the accessibility of posts (adding alternative descriptions to pictures, for instance) and created and/or co-monitored external apps connected to the blog, like its twitter account, its wiki and the diigo group for gathering the blog authors’ bookmarks.

At the end of September 2011, James N. Shimabukuro removed me from the users of the  http://etcjournal.com blog.

This meant that I had no control anymore on my posts in it: neither on the ones written directly for that blog, not on the ones republished in it that I had originally written for the blog of Innovate. I was wary of that, due to a former unpalatable experience when my collaboration with another project was similarly abruptly interrupted, and  texts I had written for it were tampered with. So I decided to archive the ones present in the  http://etcjournal.com blog.

Archiving procedure

I began to archive these posts with Webcite®, starting from the most  recent ones, and bookmarking the archived pages with Diigo. But the Webcite® server went slow, so I also began to repost them here, this time starting from the oldest ones. This is how I found that copies of most of them had been saved in the Internet Archive. As reposting posts is rather boring, I moved on to bookmarking with Diigo these Internet Archive copies or – when there wasn’t one -  again, the WebCite® archived version.

Granted, this is not a systematic procedure. However, now, the archived versions of all these posts can be retrieved either on this blog, or in my Diigo bookmarks tagged etcj CA archived.

Prix Möbius Suisse Rewards Inaccessible Flash Site 2009-10-07

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This post was first posted by me on etcjournal.wordpress.com (later etcjournal.com) on October 7, 2009
. See http://etcjournal.com/2009/10/07/prix-moebius-suisse-rewards-inaccessibility and the version saved on the Internet Archive on October 15, 2009. The H3 styles for titles of the original have been changed to H4.

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By Claude Almansi
Editor, Accessibility Issues

Last Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009, the awards ceremony of  Premio Möbius took place in Lugano (CH). There were two categories: Premio Möbius Multimedia, for cultural CDs and DVDs in Italian, and Grand Prix Möbius Suisse, for Swiss websites about cultural heritage.

Twitter Could Drive You Cuckoo – If You’re Not Prepared 2009-10-04

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This post was first posted by James N. Shimabukuro on etcjournal.wordpress.com (later etcjournal.com) on October 4, 2009. See http://etcjournal.com/2009/10/04/2468 and the version saved on the Internet Archive on October 9, 2009. The centered H3 style for the intermediary title is his.

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By Claude Almansi
Editor, Accessibility Issues

[Note: This article was first posted as a comment to Lynn Zimmerman's "Twitter Could Drive You Cuckoo" (1 Oct. 2009).]

At first, Dr. Alloway’s criticism of Twitter may seem part of a long line that includes Rousseau’s of La Fontaine’s fables in L’Emile, Flaubert’s of novels in Madame Bovary, Orwell’s of Boys’ Weeklies, and further educational damnings of TV, transistor radio, the internet, blogs, Facebook itself. Education pundits tend to damn new things until they become familiar enough to pundit about them.

Google Book Search Settlement Unfair to Non-US Authors 2009-07-12

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This post was first posted by me on etcjournal.wordpress.com (later etcjournal.com) on July 12, 2009. See http://etcjournal.com/2009/07/12/google-book-search-settlement-unfair-to-non-us-authors and the version saved on the Internet Archive on November 24, 2009. The H4 styles for titles are in the original.

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Posted on July 12, 2009 by Claude Almansi

By Claude Almansi
Editor, Accessibility Issues

Of Books and Vegetables

I first thought of calling this post “Of Books and Vegetables” because, when I half woke up the morning after I sent a letter of objection to the Google Book Search Settlement, I remembered Ms B. and the building site for a middle school in Cortona. The building activity had stopped just after the ground had been cleared, due to blocked funds. So for two years,  Ms B., who lived on the other side of the street, used it  to grow very tasty tomatoes and zucchini No one objected to this private exploitation of  the site: it would have been silly to waste its potential, and Ms B. generously shared her vegetables with friends and neighbours. When the funding issue was solved, the building started again and her vegetable patch was bulldozed.

Accessibility and Common Sense 2009-06-12

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This post was first posted by me on etcjournal.wordpress.com (later etcjournal.com) on June 12, 2009. See http://etcjournal.com/2009/06/12/accessibility-and-common-sense and the version saved on the Internet Archive on June 14, 2009. The H4 styles for titles are in the original.

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By Claude Almansi

Editor, Accessibility Issues

Technology and technology guidelines are very important in implementing accessibility. Yet accessibility is not a technology issue — it is a common sense issue, both because it is logical and because making things as accessible as possible for as many people as possible becomes an obvious necessity once you “sense in common” with the other person, put yourself in his or her place.

Collaborative Text Translation with DotSUB 2009-04-05

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This post was first posted by me on etcjournal.wordpress.com (later etcjournal.com) on April 5, 2009. See http://etcjournal.com/2009/04/05/collaborative-text-translation-with-dotsub and the version saved on the Internet Archive on April 20, 2009. In titles, the original bold is replaced with H4 styles

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By Claude Almansi
Editor, Accessibility Issues

In a discussion about Uwe Müller’s dissertation regarding open access journals (see abstract with download link) on the A2k (access to knowledge) mailing-list, Arif Jinha wrote that it would be great to translate it collaboratively into English. Great idea, especially for a  269-page long  dissertation.

Tech Tools Are Just Tools 2009-03-09

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This post was originally posted by James N. Shimabukuro on March 9, 2009,  in the Innovate blog, which has since disappeared: see the Internet Archive version saved on March 15, 2009. It was then reposted automatically on the etcjournal.com blog, when the content of the Innovate blog was transfered to it. Later, some of the dead links to the Innovate blog were replaced by equivalent links in the etcjournal.com blog.  I am reposting it as it was in the etcjournal blog, except that missing pictures are deleted and James N. Shimabukuro’s bolded titles are replaced by H4 title styles.

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By Claude Almansi
Editor, Accessibility Issues

Has technology “reduced our social capital — the relationships that bind people together and create a sense of community,” as Dider Grossamy wrote in a comment to David G. Lebow’s Ten Dollar Computers and the Future of Learning in the Web Era [1]? Didier Grossamy himself adds: “Even though technological advances have contributed significantly to the problem of isolation, the emphasis on individualism in today’s society has compounded it.”

Rare Ancient Manuscripts Online at E-codices 2009-02-25

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This post was originally posted by James N. Shimabukuro on February 25, 2009,  in the Innovate blog, which has since disappeared: see the Internet Archive version saved on February 27, 2009. It was then reposted automatically on the etcjournal.com blog, when the content of the Innovate blog was transfered to it.  I am reposting it as it was, except that James N. Shimabukuro’s bolded titles are replaced by H4 title styles and the broken pictures have been removed and his italics  (for long citations), replaced by blockquotes.

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By Claude Almansi
Staff Writer

Thanks to Rafael Schwemmer, Project Manager/Web Developer of e-codices, and to Sylviane Messerli, scientific collaborator in charge of the library of the Bodmer Foundation, for their help and explanations.

[Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 78, p. 49r (www.e-codices.unifr.ch).]

Sakshat Is a Learning Program – Not a Laptop 2009-02-13

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This post was originally posted by James N. Shimabukuro on February 13, 2009  in the Innovate blog, which has since disappeared: see the Internet Archive version saved on February 13, 2009. It was then reposted automatically on the etcjournal.com blog, when the content of the Innovate blog was transfered to it.  I am reposting it as it was, except  broken pictures have been removed or replaced

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By Claude Almansi
Staff Writer

Jim Shimabukuro’s India: $10 Notebooks for Students post (February 2, 2009, with several updates) well illustrates the misunderstandings caused by the misleading description of the Sakshat device as a “laptop.”