Saturday, June 7, 2003

Best of The Web The 2003 Webby Awards are out. See the winners here.

Weblog-O-Rama, Hi Profile Bloggers, & David Winer So, what makes a weblog a weblog? See Userland founder David Winer's write-up, here. Weblog Business Strategies 2003 Conference & Expo Looks like Dave Winer will be speaking at the Jupiter Weblog conference. Found out about the conference on Doc Searls' weblog. See David Winer's crib sheet for his Jupiter Weblog conference talk, hosted at Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, which also has a blog at blogs.law.harvard.edu High Profile People Blog There's a good article about blogs and blogging in the Industry Standard. See "Blogs Begin Getting Down to Business". "Blogs, as they're known, are no longer just an online epistolary sideline." Queens "Open Studios" A picture Dave Winer took from a subway in Queens. He asks, "What's the story of Open Studios? What happened between May 18 and May 19?" Well, for one thing we know Kevin's birthday was May 19... but what did happen then? He goes on to ask, "Do you think it's beautiful or an eyesore? Use the comments [on the source page] to tell the story."

Cebuano Anyone? Translation On-The-Fly: Hindi to English Cebuano? Apparently researchers are setting out to translate Hindi into English, on the fly, in a race to see how far they can get in one month. They'd already tried their hands at Cebuano, a language spoken in the Philippines. They'd been given two weeks on that language. ... a group of computer scientists and natural language experts were given a "mission" earlier this week: within a month, build a program that translates between English and a randomly chosen language. ... The element of surprise in the project is critical. Since Monday, computational linguistics research groups from around the country have been gathering resources on the pop-quiz language, Hindi. See the article: Pick a Language, Any Language. Researchers in computational linguistics are building a translation engine that can be retooled quickly to translate any language into English. It's part of a DARPA challenge to develop translation services that can adapt at a moment's notice, whenever foreign policy demands. By Katie Dean. [Wired News]