If you're interested in building up your base of direct clients, keeping up with your local business news is an essential part of the equation. In this economy, I think it's easy to cross the business news off your list as "all doom and gloom" and therefore not worth reading. However, as today's … [Read more...] about Your local business news as a marketing tool
Thoughts on machine translation
There's been a lot of buzz lately about machine translation, with translators and translation industry watchers either condemning machine translation as useless and damaging to the profession or touting it as the next big thing in the industry. ATA President Jiri Stejskal wrote his most recent … [Read more...] about Thoughts on machine translation
Link: a great post on e-mail security issues
I apologize for all of these nubbins; there's just too much going on on the web today! If you have any interest in computer security issues, make sure to read Michael Wahlster's post Secrets on a Postcard, in which he argues (quite persuasively!) that sending confidential documents by standard … [Read more...] about Link: a great post on e-mail security issues
Word clouds of inaugural addresses
Thanks to reader Dierk Seeburg for sending the link to these word clouds that compare Obama's inaugural speech to those of Bush, Clinton, Reagan and Lincoln. If you haven't checked out Wordle, it's a very cool language/art/geek tool that generates a word cloud that gives greater importance to … [Read more...] about Word clouds of inaugural addresses
Obama on bilingualism
The inauguration of our 44th president promises to bring many changes to the U.S., and there's reason to hope that better foreign language education will be among them. The statistics on foreign language proficiency in the U.S. are downright dismal; in 2005, the National Association for Bilingual … [Read more...] about Obama on bilingualism