Multilingual

Here’s a small selection of links related to my work around languages on the internet, particularly multilingualism. If you start with these, you’ll find more links to interviews, videos, and other blog posts around the topic.

I am currently available for speaking and consulting engagements on these issues.

Speaking

• All These Languages! Localization and Multilingualism Online: open discussion at LIFT, please vote for it if you’re going
• Two Panel Submissions For SXSW Interactive (language Issues): accepted, will be speaking in March 2008 in Austin
• Waiting for the Babel Fish (Web 2.0 Expo, Berlin): Tuesday 6th November 2007, 10:10am (Web2Open) — announcement and slides
• Languages on the Internet at Google — watch the video of this talk [July 2007]
• While We Wait for the Babel Fish (Reboot 9.0, Denmark)
• Multilingual Blogging — watch the video of this talk [March 2007]

Writing

• English Only: Barrier to Adoption: if your online service isn’t taking off in Europe and it’s available only in English, this might be why
• Not All Switzerland Speaks German, Dammit!: on being a linguistic minority in a multilingual country
• About the Swiss Blog Awards (SBAW): an example of the importance of linguistic barriers online
• Most People Are Multilingual: contrary to popular belief, most people are not monolingual
• Languages/Linguistics archive: a bit of a dump, but it’s all in there

Geeky things

• Two WordPress plugins: Basic Bilingual and Bunny’s Language Linker
• Converting MySQL Database Contents to UTF-8 (more encoding fun: episode 2, episode 3, episode 4)
• Browser Language Detection and Redirection

Interviews

• by Suw Charman for Conversation Hub: The Multilingual Web (video)
• by Nicole Simon as part of her reboot9 pre-conference series: Reboot 9: Stephanie Booth (audio)