One of the blogs I track that makes me think a bit is Web Worker Daily. In a post How to succeed for tech entrepreneurs – stroll down University Avenue? the question is raised of whether it’s useful for an entrepreneur to have a presence in a high-tech hub, like University Avenue in Palo Alto (or I suppose any other University Avenue). My answer is “yes, but only once a week.”
Building Readership in more Languages
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| Sky’s blog in Japanese |
It turns out that it’s easy enough these days to have a blog “automatically” translated into a reasonable number of languages. I use WordPress software to support my blog, and there’s some real choice in terms of how to get your site translated.
The plug-in that fits my needs best was initially a bit rough around the edges — it didn’t work at all at first — but I tuned it over the course of a few hours, including some PHP finagling, and it works quite well now. It’s the Google-Translate plug-in by John Pozadzies. (I’ve sent a note to John with some suggested “fixes.”) The little flags in the banner at the top of this page can be clicked if you’d like to see how it works. If you only read English, make sure you come back here when you’re done experimenting!
But I also like the N2H (Nothing2Hide) plug-in and have it on my site, and I’ll say more about that later on. [Read more…]
Charity Focus’ Nipun Mehta
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| Nipun Mehta as pictured
on his blog |
I can’t believe that I’ve been blogging so long, and have never blogged Nipun Mehta. It’s time to start making amends…
I’m going to start by pointing you at an audio interview that Michael Lerner of The New School conducted with Nipun earlier this year.
In April 1999, Nipun and three friends started Charity Focus as an “experiment in generosity.”
The Founding of the Dalai Lama Scholars
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| The first Dalai Lama scholars… with the 14th Dalai Lama |
The Dalai Lama Scholars program was envisioned by Vice Chancellor Manuel Gomez of the University of California at Irvine, and formed as an honorarium to His Holiness in conjunction with his appearance there in 2004. The Dalai Lama does not receive any payment for his appearances – instead, all net proceeds from tickets and other sales (after expenses) go to benefit appropriate causes and organizations. [UCI Juniors Rajiv Ramdeo and Aswathi Sreedharan, recipients of the inaugural scholarship 2006, are pictured here with the Dalai Lama.]
Lori Warmington was instrumental in the creation of the scholarships, and in this interview, she describes for us how they came about as well as what they’re about.
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The Dalai Lama Foundation featured the scholars in its March 2007 newsletter. The University describes the endowed scholarships on its web site. His Holiness gave two talks at the University of California Irvine, both of which are archived online (video/RealPlayer).
The $100 laptop at International Symposium on Digital Earth 5
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| The $100 laptop @ ISDE5 |
The International Symposium on Digital Earth was an opportunity for a few hundred experts and other interested individuals to get together, see and discuss ways in which online information systems are making it possible to explore our planet.
The most obvious, to me, being Google Earth. But there are lots and lots of others.
As I walked into UC Berkeley to register, I stumbled across Ed Cherlin, who I’ve known for a few years as a knowledgeable and good-hearted promoter of the Simputer (Simple Computer). This time he was wearing a volunteer staff shirt for ISDE5 and carrying an XO (the “$100 computer”) in his hand. Hmm, an XO. Time to talk to Ed I think! [Read more…]
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