Les langues dans un monde qui se globalise

Je prévois une situation où on connaîtra une langue locale (néerlandais dans mon cas), une langue régionale/transnationale (le français dans mon cas) et la langue mondiale (l'anglais).

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The 'God View' alias The Twitter Timeline

I personally like the "Twitter God View" - like I kill the Twitter timeline. Every voice just coins as one voice no matter what language, culture or social background they have... as long as they are on Twitter, they are equal. Age, sex, location doesn't matter.

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The meaning of life: Crembo

Crembo or life is about the courage of your opinion Jesus was killed for it, as was Thomas More, Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Troski, ... telling the truth. Life is about having the courage of your opinion -

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The importance of story telling

The importance of story telling In his TED presentation " Welcome to Nollywood " [http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/franco_sacchi_on_nollywood.html ], Franco Sacchi tells us:

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The importance of story telling

The importance of story telling In his TED presentation " Welcome to Nollywood " [http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/franco_sacchi_on_nollywood.html ], Franco Sacchi tells us:

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Glocalize instead of localize sites...

I'm not sure about localization... I personally prefer to work in the product native language ( (for Dutch, English, French or Italian environments) or in the English environment (for languages I didn't mention, because I don't know them).

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Localization, a costly process and needed ?

I'm not sure about localization... I personally prefer to work in the product native language ( (for Dutch, English, French or Italian environments) or in the English environment (for languages I didn't mention, because I don't know them).

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References in cyberspace... a difficulty

Jose Paul Martin asks Should You Bookmark? ( ) by pointing out the very variability of websites and the malleable nature of webdocuments.

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.vl as an extension for Flanders (Dutch: Vlaanderen)

Claiming that .vl is impossible as an extension for Flanders due to the fact it's not an independent country, would lead to believe that only independent countries have top level domains of two letters... but this is not the case ! While there is an explanation for

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The Wizz Kid TV-format

Give people 30 minutes to set up a website about a subject. Let 2, 3 or more teams compete. Let them publish their site in real time on the web. Let a jury decide which site it the best and explain why.

Smurka (smurf with Burka) refused by Happysmurfday.com

Happysmurfday.com did refuse to place a picture of a dressed-up smurf wearing a burka.

Love hurts

Many people have experienced it and are experiencing at this moment: love really can hurt. Few people can express it as a lesson of life and communicate clearly about it. In this blog article the analysis is done quite remarkably.

The basic rules for quality blogging.

The basic stone of a theory of blogging as a profession have been formulated by Darren Rowse.

Google feels recession ?

Reading the rumours about the possible revenue setbacks by Google, I had the feeling this would mean Google is a serious indicator for the health of the American economy. It seems logical to me that fewer companies means fewer advertise revenue.

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Internet service are living things

Netscape has died, babl.nl has been born. Just a metaphor ? or could it be for real ?

Excellence...

... doesn't go by without being noticed... It creates the best of stories... To the Tumblr.com team : Thanks for the excellence of apologizing for a flew I didn't even find out about myself.

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Knol.com and Knols.com already taken by Dutch based companies

Google may have to bargain a bit to buy these domain...

Why haven't we had a visitor from the future yet ?

Because up to now the theory enabling spacetime travelling wasn't formulated yet in our spacetime line.

Tumblr.com

Forget about Twitter, Digg and Del.icio.us , there is one application uniting all of their power: Tumblr.com .

Two centuries of data each quarter of an hour.

QUOTE: It took two centuries to fill the shelves of the Library of Congress with more than 57 million manuscripts, 29 million books and periodicals, 12 million photographs, and more. Now, the world generates an equivalent amount of digital information nearly 100 times each day.

The French Intelligentsia discovers the Internet officially.

The official knowlegde base of the francophone world has a mirror in the publication of a volume of "Que sais-je". In principle all real scientific subjects are treated in at least one volume of this collection. An "Internet" volume has been anounced by Journaldunet.com

Time out for Flemish teachers to prevent burn-out

Protecting teacher from burn-out, stygmatization and victimization: the Belgian minister of Dutch education, Frank Vandenbroucke, seems to have realised this greenhouse thinktank idea within the existing legal framework.

Dictionaries of the futur: the information adaptes to the user

The information adaptes to the user ============================ Until now, you had to pick the dictionary you wanted to get the information presentation you did prefer.

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Worldwide French teachers social network

An international site for teachers of French to discuss the use of the internet in the classroom. Thanks to ning.com, this social network is free for all participants !

Belgian Constituent Assembly

National Constituent Assembly in the web2.0 way, a really democratic way of rethinking and reconstructing the Belgian nation. A knowlegde of French and Dutch is required for the full comprehension of the site. Or a good translation program...

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