Tag Archives: language

English Only: Barrier to Adoption

[fr]Dans ce billet à l’attention des anglophones, j’insiste sur le fait que l’inexistance d’une version en français d’un produit va entraver son adoption ici. Même si les gens parlent anglais (un peu, beaucoup) cela rajoute une difficulté supplémentaire. Si Skype, … Continue reading

Posted in Language Geekiness, My corner of the world, Thinking, Wordpress | Tagged adoption, application, Citations, dotclear, english, Essay-Like, facebook, flickr, francophone, french, icq, internet, language, languagebarrier, Languages / Linguistics, livemessenger, msn, myspace, online, openweb, pompagenet, skyblog, skype, Social Software, Software and Tools, suisse romande, Theories, translation, usability, web2.0, webstandards, Wordpress | 14 Comments

Requirements for a Multilingual WordPress Plugin

[fr]Quelques réflexions concernant un plugin multilingue pour WordPress.[en]My blog has been bilingual for a long time now. I’ve hacked bilingualism into it and then plugged it in. Other plugins for multilingual bloggers have been written, and some unfortunately got stuck … Continue reading

Posted in Language Geekiness, Wordpress | Tagged ahah, ajax, bilingual, blogging, draft, language, languages, Languages / Linguistics, multilingual, plugin, polyglot, proposal, requirements, software, specs, tools, translation, Wanted, Weblog Technology, Wordpress | 9 Comments

Thinking About Tags

What if taggy applications like Technorati, Flickr and Del.icio.us started allowing us to query multiple tags with “and” and “or” operators?

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Posted in Language Geekiness | Tagged association, blogs, combination, del.icio.us, flickr, geek, idea, inclusion, language, Languages / Linguistics, multilingual, query, Software and Tools, tag, tags, technorati | 11 Comments

Call to WordPress Plugin Developers

Call for help to WordPress plugin developers. I have a bunch of hacks and modifications I’d like to turn into plugins, but I am unfortunately as plugin-challenged as ever.

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Posted in Language Geekiness, Wordpress | Tagged bilingual, code, Code and Markup, custom, developer, field, input, keyword, language, Languages / Linguistics, multilingual, multilingual_blogging, php, plugin, plugins, technorati, text, value, viabloga, Weblog Technology, Wordpress | 15 Comments

Correction cérébrale

Légère commotion cérébrale au judo vendredi. Quelques jours de repos s’imposent.

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Posted in Health, Personal | Tagged Anecdotes, arrêt de travail, Budo / Judo, cérébrale, chute, commotion, corrections, école, enseignant, entraînement, General, Health, judo, language, Life Updates, mal de tête, malade, médecin, mémoire, parole, perte, test, tête, tombé, trouble | 18 Comments

U-Blog, Six Apart, and Their Angry Bloggers

This very long post is, for the first time in English, a pretty complete account of what has been going on with U-blog and Loïc Le Meur in the French blogosphere for some time now. With the acquisition of Ublog by Six Apart, these problems are bound to take another dimension for the English-speaking blogosphere.

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Posted in Language Geekiness | Tagged angloblogosphere, angry, aurora, blog, blogosphère, Blogosphere Interest, community, complain, divide, english, Essay-Like, features, francoblogosphere, french, gloaguen, history, language, Languages / Linguistics, laurent, le meur, loic, movable type, post, problem, promise, six apart, trouble, typepad, u-blog, ublog, unhappy, weblog | 79 Comments

Life and Trials of a Multilingual Weblog

Here is an explanation of how I set up WordPress to manage my bilingual weblog. I give all the code I used to do it, and announce some of the things I’d like to implement. A “Multilingual blogging” TopicExchange channel is now open.

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Posted in Language Geekiness, Wordpress | Tagged admin, administration, attribute, bilingual, blog, blogging, blogtalk, category, change, code, css, custom, data, differenciate, excerpt, exchange, field, hacks, hreflang, interface, keywords, lang, language, Languages / Linguistics, link, Meta, modify, monolingual, movable type, multilingual, outgoing, php, post, printscreen, reader, Real Live Code, screenshot, style, suw, topic, topicexchange, Weblog Technology, welsh, Wordpress | 38 Comments

Sloppy Vienna Update

A few random facts about the last two days in Vienna.

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Posted in Travels | Tagged blogwalk, cinéma, citizen kane, food, football, jacket, language, lost, read, sleep, tired, Travels, vienna, weblog, write | Leave a comment