Wikipedia, the collaborative encylopedia that anyone can edit, now contains over 50,000 articles. The entry on the anti-globalisation movement is a good example of how it works. [iMakeContent] [jenett.radio: dailywebthing]
The fine art of translation. Via Arts & Letters Daily comes a marvellous essay by Wendy Lesser, titled The Mysteries of Translation, about how different translators mediate the voice of the original author: This is not to say that a Margaret Jull Costa translation of the Portuguese novelist José Saramago sounds like a Margaret Jull... [Jonathon Delacour]