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Wireside Chat with Lawrence Lessig - CC Wiki - 1 views

wiki.creativecommons.org/side_Chat_with_Lawrence_Lessig lessig creativecommons fairuse live session question
shared by Barbara Lindsey on 15 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Come in person, or tune in to a live webcast at http://openvideoalliance.org/lessig.
    • Barbara Lindsey
      Barbara Lindsey on 15 Feb 10
       
      Do we want to do this in lieu of our Friday session?
  • Barbara Lindsey on 15 Feb 10
     
    The first Wireside Chat kicks off with a live webcast of a talk by Lawrence Lessig. Professor Lessig will deliver a talk on fair use and politics in online video from Harvard Law School in Cambridge, MA. Come in person, or tune in to a live webcast at http://openvideoalliance.org/lessig.
  • Barbara Lindsey on 15 Feb 10
     
    Should we attend on the 25th from 6-7:30 p.m. EST?
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Site Hopes Automatic Arabic-English Translation Translates into Peace | Epicenter | Wir... - 0 views

www.wired.com/...arabic-english-diplomacy cross-cultural community translation online
shared by Barbara Lindsey on 23 Feb 10 - Cached
  • A new site hopes the seemingly simple idea of eliminating the language barrier, letting you write in English and be read in Arabic — and vice versa — will cultivate citizen diplomacy between the Middle East and the West. It aims to reduce tensions at the grassroots level between two cultures that increasingly co-exist but seem a world apart.
  • People who don’t share a common language can have an online discussion in near real time. The name, appropriately, means “gathering place” or “town hall” in Arabic.
  • Think of it as a social network filled with people you don’t know, but want to understand.
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  • The site is effectively bilingual, thanks to machine translations, and volunteer editors spruce up the translations afterward. Machine translation is quite good, Weyman says, on fairly standard text such as news stories, but still has difficulties handling comments, which tend to use more conversational language. The site also open-sources all its translation data to help the state of the art of translation to move forward.
  • “let someone in Nebraska see an event through the eyes of someone in Nablus.”
  • For instance, Meedan partnered with the United States Institute of Peace, which hosted an online webcast with U.S. Ambassador Christoper Hill last Wednesday. The webcast allowed Iraqis and others from the Middle East to ask questions in Arabic, have them translated immediately and get answers back in just seconds.
  • Barbara Lindsey on 23 Feb 10
     
    A new site hopes the seemingly simple idea of eliminating the language barrier, letting you write in English and be read in Arabic - and vice versa - will cultivate citizen diplomacy between the Middle East and the West. It aims to reduce tensions at the grassroots level between two cultures that increasingly co-exist but seem a world apart.
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