Comments on: Multilingual Proposals (Reboot, BlogCamp)

By: BlogCamp: Multilingual Blogging Session at Climb to the Stars (Stephanie Booth)

BlogCamp: Multilingual Blogging Session at Climb to the Stars (Stephanie Booth) — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:40:36 +0000

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By: Isabelle

Isabelle — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:01:08 +0000

Hi Stephanie,
Thought you might find that interesting too: http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/security/dmorrill/ar...>

By: Isabelle

Isabelle — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 09:01:08 +0000

Hi Stephanie, Thought you might find that interesting too: http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/security/dmorrill/archives/the-wrong-kind-of-user-15201

By: Ric Hayman

Ric Hayman — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 02:37:22 +0000

Steph – that's exactly what I meant, yes. I haven't tried Google Docs yet, but you may be able to invite selected people to contribute, or you may have to invite the world to get a few people (that may be a little scary!)

By: Ric Hayman

Ric Hayman — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 21:37:22 +0000

Steph – that’s exactly what I meant, yes. I haven’t tried Google Docs yet, but you may be able to invite selected people to contribute, or you may have to invite the world to get a few people (that may be a little scary!)

By: Isabelle

Isabelle — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:01:01 +0000

Stephanie, you are stricking a chord!
I’m sure you noticed that all “best european weblogs” at http://2007.bloggies.com speak English

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:39:33 +0000

Thanks, Ric. What do you mean exactly by “open up access”? Let others write in it?

By: Ric Hayman

Ric Hayman — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:31:51 +0000

Oh, forgot! Good to see you found Mindmeister – there's a couple of web-based mindmapping tools around – Anne Zelenka blooged a few at Web Worker Daily (at about the same time as I did!)

By: Ric Hayman

Ric Hayman — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:27:05 +0000

Good topic, and what that should generate a fair bit of discussion. It is rapidly becoming an issue when you think of the Chinese population - the chance of English remaining so dominant is slim.

The other issue you rightly point out is that of translation - how do we EASILY make the Web multilingual? The "Babel Fish" we do have at the moment is often unintentionally hilarious - but you wouldn't want to have your livelihood depending on it. Bob Sutton also highlighted a similar problem getting the title of "The No Asshole Rule" translated so that the SENSE of the title was preserved.

Good luck ... should be interesting. BTW - are you daring enough to open up access to the Google document?

By: Fred Valentin

Fred Valentin — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:10:34 +0000

Hi Stephanie, there is a article on ProBlogger today about blog translations. You've find a hot topic.
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/03/19/b…>