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On Lingua and distributed translation

Earlier today, a tweet popped up on my screen from someone I’d just begun to follow.  MeghnaK is a (self-described) 13-year-old blogger from India.  Her blog is what you might expect from a young woman…mostly personal, with some poetry and a few newsworthy stories.  Her grasp on blogging is clearly beyond her years (or is […]

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Christmas Shopping 2.0

I’ve always enjoyed Christmas shopping.  Most years, I’ve done a combination of online and offline shopping, buying items from favorite sites such as amazon.com and etsy, and stores in my neighborhood.  Last year, I even did Black Friday shopping, trying the tradition of getting up at 4 am (it was fun for a couple hours, […]

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To CC or not to CC…Not much of a question

Tonight I attended a Creative Commons forum featuring Larry Lessig, founder; Joi Ito, CEO; Jamie Boyle, Board Chair; and Molly S. Van Houweling, Board Member and former Exec. Director.  I was fortunate enough to hear the story of CC’s start – how it went from counter-copyright to copyright commons to creative commons, how the different […]