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Member since Apr 20, 2009, follows 3 people, 7 public groups, 134 public bookmarks (199 total).

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Aslib Translating and the Computer 31 Conference Programme on 2009-11-20
- Designing a Collaborative Multilingual Terminology Platform
- Automatic Indexing and Concordances for Any Language
Crowdsourcing on 2009-11-18
- More and more freelancers will see this as just another method of working in the digital age. Resistance to crowdsourcing will continue to erode as this workflow brings localized content to grateful recipients and enables access to new content.
- In fact, as much as 90 percent of translator time may be spent on the most challenging ten percent of the translation. To legitimize professionally managed crowdsourcing, the industry is compelled to design compensation models that incent the most highly qualified translators to attack all and only the most challenging portions of the translation
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- - The bottom line is that the progressive LSP will add more value while at the same time reducing or eliminating the repetitive tasks associated with project administration.
HubPages on 2009-11-16
- Publish Easily
  
  Publish Easily
  
  Publish online with easy to use, non-techie tools
Unthinkingly.com » Archive » “Slashtags” for citizen editors on 2009-11-09
- Not beautiful, but very clear.
- /newspaper/iraq
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- - /for/meedan
  - This is why the usability of a citizen editor tagging scheme is so critical — it needs to be flexible enough (to handle hurricanes) but maintain a low barrier to participation (to cultivate citizen editors)
Great minds think alike on progress - The National Newspaper on 2009-11-03
- The hope, the organisers said, was to recreate the Middle East’s place as a cultural centre and to revive “the Gulf region’s liberal traditions”, almost like a miniature, modern House of Wisdom. As inspiration, the words of Greek philosophers loomed above on a gigantic screen.
Festival of Thinkers Debate World’s Burning Issues on 2009-11-03
- “Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) said knowledge is obligatory, not recommended,” she said. “And that being the case, why is there so much illiteracy in so many Islamic countries”?
- “All the problems in the world are reduced to just one problem. If you solve this problem you solve everything else – wars, illiteracy, hunger. The problem I’m talking about is lack of development and use of the intellect,” he said.
Sahrawi people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia on 2009-11-02
- The refugees
  
  The Moroccan-Mauritanian invasion of Western Sahara following the collapse of Spanish colonial rule in 1975 produced an exodus of refugees fleeing the violence, with substantial numbers ending up in the Polisario Front movement's base areas in the Algerian Sahara, where refugee camps were set up south of Tindouf, and a smaller number in camps in Mauritania. The camps south of Tindouf were given names of cities in the Western Sahara (eg Awsard, Laâyoune, 27 february, Smara and Dakhla)^[6]. These refugee populations form the base and recruiting grounds for the Polisario Front, contesting Moroccan control of the territory.
afrol News - New report documents abuse of Sahrawi refugees' rights in Algeria camps on 2009-11-02
- The study, published by the Inter-University Center for Legal Studies located at the International Law Institute, finds that both the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and relief agencies established to protect refugee rights have ignored the situation in the Algerian camps and perpetuated the abuse of the refugees' rights under international law.
untitled on 2009-10-23
- The BNP is the only party in this country that's worth voting for
  - gweyman on 2009-10-23
    
    Daily Mail readers support Nick Griffin and the BNP over Max Hastings according tot he comments on this op-ed. Depressing times.
  - gweyman on 2009-10-23
    
    Astonishing
untitled on 2009-10-22
- You can see that despite the fact that the BBC has got a great reputation for Africa reporting, it’s still comparatively light. Latin America’s very light.
  
  Josh: A hole in the Congo area.
  
  Ethan: Yeah, we see that Congo hole almost all over the place.

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