cck08 about to start
adminOne of the blogs I read (I think it was Robin Good's) sent me to cck08, an open online class in Connectivism. I've been curious about this concept of distributed…
Spelling needs simplified
A 102-year-old former president of the American Literacy Council and other organizations came across the blog at boing boing, pointing to a video of him using a flip-book to show…
Futurese: How will Americans speak in 1,000 years?
Justin B. Rye graduated from a Scottish University in Linguistics, worked for a short time as a sysadmin, and then spent the last 10 years unemployed. He built computers out…
Words are words, even if they aren’t in the dictionary
Lexicographer Erin McKean writes in Boston.com that English and any other language is designed to be upgraded constantly, and an inalienable right of speaking is inventing and using new words.…
Need a translator? Phone it in.
Jajah, an Internet telecommunications company, and IBM have teamed up to create a service that allows anyone to use a phone to translate between Chinese and English. For free (well,…