Monthly Archives: December 2010

via liberiangeek.net Best tutorial I’ve seen on setting up DansGuardian and Web Content Control on Ubuntu systems. Not a “terminal-free” option but the tutorial is very clear on the order of steps to be performed. Once you have Web Content … Continue reading →

via time.com Lots of creative thinking by the Verdade newspaper folks in Maputo. Free paper. Full color, delivery trucks doubling as taxis. Readership of 400,000. Wow!

A nice cross-section of sentiments among diaspora Africans regarding ethnic identity. Reminds me of a quote I just saw today in Diran Adebayo’s Some Kind of Black: “Across the diaspora, young people are trading complex identities for tribal affiliations.” (Danyel … Continue reading →

via en.wikipedia.org The reason International Mother Tongue Day is celebrated on February 21 is because of this event in Bangladesh.

I now have an official “name” on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/KanyimbeIsland The Facebook page is tied to Twitter and this Posterous blog so anything posted here ends up there. And anything posted there ends up on Twitter. And anything posted on… well, … Continue reading →

352,145,654 people are mother-tongue speakers of languages with one million or less speakers. There are currently more than 310,543,757 people in the U.S. Source: Ethnologue and U.S. Census

It would be helpful if some admin could post those. The list of translation projects is skewed, to say the least. Size can’t be the main factor because there is a project for Sami and Rumantsch (about 30,000 speakers each) … Continue reading →

via fastcompany.com My worldview is quaking.

-A challenge for many online production communities is to direct their members to accomplish goals that are important to the group, even when these goals may not match up with individual members’ interests via cs.cmu.edu How goals can draw people … Continue reading →

via realizedworth.blogspot.com How do we motivate people to participate in our projects? The author looks at the impact of intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation.