If you like maps and you haven’t yet discovered the Strange Map blog, I recommend checking it out. It’s oddly addictive. Now there’s a print version — Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities. Included within the book is our…
It’s beginning to feel like Groundhog Day when I read these “IDNs are coming” articles. Here’s one I read this morning about ICANN’s meeting in Seoul, happening now, where the powers that be are expected to approve “fast track” IDNs.…
The Visit Korea tourism web site offers up a global gateway that’s difficult to ignore: I like it. The languages are presented in the native scripts. The user has to select one before entering the site. Most of all, I…
Am I missing something here? The page title for the Drudge Report is dated 2010. Maybe Drudge is just anxious to usher in a new year…
Was there any doubt that Twitter would not try to crowdsource its translations? After Facebook proved that it could use volunteers to go from 1 to 100 languages in two years, it was just a matter of time before Twitter…
Midge, as many of your know, not only runs Byte Level, she writes. Short stories mostly. Lots of short stories. And short stories aren’t exactly where the fast bucks are being made these days. So it’s nice to see her…
Here’s an article that confirms what consumers apparently know but many companies have yet to figure out — that English-language slogans don’t make much sense to people who don’t speak English. In this article, the German publication Spiegel actually asked…
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, the saying goes. So I suppose I should have been flattered when I came across four new posters by the esteemed design firm Pentagram. Judge for yourself. Here’s one of the Pentagram posters:…
The Kindle has gone international, sort of. That is, Amazon is launching a new Kindle outfitted with a radio chip that works in most of the world’s cellular markets (100+) — as opposed to the US-only Kindle, which operates only…
I was contacted recently about a rather interesting and specialized job opening in the globalization space. So I thought I’d throw it open to the readers of this blog. The position is with a very large global company based outside…