Business | 27.04.2008![]()
Facebook’s Community Translation: Savvy or Just Cheap? IT Business Edge, KY - Apr 22, 2008 The article quotes a Korean-speaking Californian who has provided translations for Wikipedia in the past but doesn’t plan to do so for Facebook. ... 
Facebook’s Community Translation: Savvy or Just Cheap? - IT Business Edge
Events | 08.05.2008
Education Diary: National Association of Head Teachers' conference
Last weekend\'s National Association of Head Teachers\' conference began on Saturday after a hard day\'s night for many of the head teachers gathered in Liverpool for the event. They spent the previous night at the city\'s Cavern Club – the venue that launched The Beatles on to an unsuspecting world....Interpreting | 06.05.2008
John Walsh: Tales of the City
The teaching of Latin has changed a bit since my chums and I in the fourth form used to change the title page of Kennedy\'s Latin Primer to Kennedy\'s Eating Prime Beef, and invent dog-Latin formulations like "Caesar ad sum iam forte" (you have to say it aloud). In exams, we were given unseen translations...Terminology | 12.05.2008
Variety speak: The bizarre Hollywood terminology you'll need to clinch a movie deal
If you thought you had to know your Bertolucci from your Brad Pitt just to get a job polishing Harvey Weinstein\'s golf shoes, you\'re only halfway there. Movie insiders actually converse in their own "slanguage", a rich, and often very funny, collection of invented terms popularised by the industry magazine...Industry | 13.05.2008
'Independent' chief O'Reilly honoured in media awards
Sir Anthony O\'Reilly, chief executive of Independent News & Media (INM), has been honoured as Media Person of the Year at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, one of the most prestigious awards in the global communications industry.Quality | 07.05.2008
Last Night's TV: That's enough chips off the old block
I think there might just be a defence for the title of Too Fat to Toddle, which otherwise would surely go down as the most cretinously thoughtless bit of programme-naming for months, a gift to the playground bullies that the programme itself identified as one of the burdens of childhood obesity. The defence,...Training | 12.05.2008
My Life in Media: Mary Kalemkerian
Mary Kalemkerian is the head of programmes at BBC Radio 7, the digital station that revives drama and comedy favourites from the BBC archives. She is nominated as the Station Programmer of the Year at this evening\'s Sony Radio Academy Awards. Kalemkerian grew up in the Scottish Borders and trained as...