Well … this is nothing fancy, but I’ve built my own eContent blog language translation service using Google.
- eContent Blog Translations (linked also from the header and right column)
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Wikipedia Portals
Most people who read this blog are aware of Wikipedia, but are you aware that Wikimedia Foundation has been building various functional / subject portals? Although, not all the portals are ready for prime time, many are robust. Here are some of my favorites:
In addition … you need to understand even to this day, I am the kind of person who likes to take a "physical" encyclopedia off the shelf (perhaps the letter "S") and just browse! Anyhow, these portals allow a virtual browse in the same manner. Here are a couple of other related links:
- Wikipedia Portals: Released | Under Development
Lucky Unicorn
My friends at the China Tomorrow Education Foundation have given me a Chinese name, loosely translated it sounds something like "Rich", and means "Lucky Unicorn"! Actually I think it will be the children in JiaYou who will be lucky, because with your help we will rebuild their school. Both Grandma’s Marathon, including my Run for China’s Children, and my pledge total are getting close to what’s needed.
- See the kids of JiaYou and the region (short slide show)
- Learn more about my Run for China
Today, I ran in the Lake Minnetonka Half-Marathon (13.1 miles). The unicorn must have needed this time trial! I broke 8 minute miles and finished in 1 hour and 44 minutes … 18th out of 117 in "older men classification" (age 50 to 59). My overall spot was 117 out of 1,500!
On the pledge drive front, we’re up to $4,540! $6k will re-build the YanLao Primary School is JiaYou, which is located in Guangxi Province, China. Please help me achieve this goal … email a pledge to me, Rich Hoeg, at rhoeg@comcast.net. Thank you! You can expand the thumbnail and view the unicorn!
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The Virtues of an Intelligent Tag
In this blog I’ve often talked about why enterprise wide tagging with context is important. Here is some data from participants who attended a recent Scientific Computing webinar. Click upon the thumbnail to see the survey results. An intelligent tagging solution which includes the ability to create a tag, while saving those tags as favorites in a category list … subscribable by other users via RSS … is part of the solution.
In other words, the key is allowing your users to create "context". See more of my posts on this topic.
- Scientific Computing Knowledge Management Article
(includes links to the webinar and a pdf copy of the discussion)
Wikipedia on Your iPod
I only have a MP3 player, so I can not test this …. but the idea is very cool. Via SourceForge.Net, you can now install Wikipedia on your iPod. There are English, German and Italian language versions. (via OpenCulture)
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