Archive for November, 2007

Tools and hacks: Wikipedia redirect

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

I’m not a great programmer, but sometimes I come up with little neat tools that might be useful to others. I am going to try to post more of them on this blog, and I also made a page called Tools and hacks, where I will be collecting them.
Here is the first one:
Wikipedia language redirect
Example: […]

Subtitling II: Nothing is new under the stars

Sunday, November 11th, 2007

My friend Peder noted that this phenomenon was preceded by a film by Woody Allen, which took this to the extremes. I will copy and paste from the Wikipedia article:
What’s Up, Tiger Lily? is the first film directed by Woody Allen. He also wrote and appeared in this 1966 comedy, which utilized clips from […]

Subtitling is all the rage

Sunday, November 11th, 2007

I have been interested in languages and translation, and ways of making content from different languages available for a long time. I was very excited to come across DotSub, an online YouTube-esque platform for film clips where you can upload videos, and have viewers contribute subtitles in different languages Wiki-style (and without having to download […]

OpenEd: Week 10

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

I’m posting this weeks contribution early, since I am going away to Quebec for the weekend. I chanced upon a few posts that seem to be saying similar things.
Both Catia and Antonio have read Coase’s Penguin or the Nature of the Firm. Catia discusses the different non-monetary incentives that can induce people to contribute to […]