Simple English Comes to Wikipedia for Translators Without Borders I know, here I am writing about Translators Without Borders again. I can’t help it. They are doing such important work in the world. As a content-development firm that has been around for 17+ years, we have been impacted by the global recession like many of [...]
Back in 2002, John Ritter starred in the ABC sitcom, 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter. According to Paul Hennessy (John Ritter) the rules were: Use your hands on my daughter and you’ll lose them after. You make her cry, I make you cry. Safe sex is a myth. Anything you try will be hazardous [...]
It’s been a few years now that I’ve been dabbling in the wild and wacky world of localization. I really like the people I’ve met. Most are smart and passionate about what they do. They care deeply about accuracy, readability, and quality. They care about translation costs and keeping them as reasonable as possible. And [...]
Why would you possibly change the name of your company after 16 years?!! Since February 1, when Oak Hill Corporation became Content Rules, I have been asked this question dozens of times. And today, I’d like to answer the question. Actually, I’m not going to directly answer the question. Instead, I’m going to talk about [...]
Once you have thought about how you are going to organize your content, it is time to turn your attention to creating the content. As I mentioned in my post Your Brain on XML, knowing, in advance, if you are going to be reusing content as part of your ecosystem really helps dictate the way [...]
I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about the content ecosystem lately. I’ve been considering the entire end-to-end process of organizing, creating, managing, and publishing content for the global marketplace. Here is a definition of the term ecosystem from WordNet at Princeton University: A system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms [...]
I work with hundreds of professional writers from across the United States. They have huge vocabularies. Sometimes, they think that the more words they write, the better job they are doing. In my early years, I used to believe this to be the case, too. Translation is billed by multiplying the number of words in [...]
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