Here’s a fun conversation starter about Wales and attempts to give it a “global brand”.
I have a mixed attitude to marketing people. The ones I agree with are good. The rest are weasels.
I maintain another blog called Open Season which is all about openness and open source. I’ve been using it to share links to articles, along with a sample quote each time. Each post takes 25 seconds or so with Tumblr.
I wrote about it here in June 2009. Just mentioning it again as some of the [...]
Google Translate has already accelerated my Welsh learning. It helps to decipher a daunting piece of text.
Now Google Translate is instant. They changed the interface slightly and it flashes up the equivalent translation as you type. Boy.
In other words you get the same flawed “translations”, now even faster!
Try it for Welsh to English.
Example phrases:
Dw i’n [...]
This is about my “New Year’s Resolutions” for the web, particularly the Welsh language web. Maybe other people can write theirs and we can have a fun discussion.
Mae wythnos olaf y flwyddyn yn doniol. Dw i’n siarad am yr wythnos rhwng Dydd Nadolig a blwyddyn newydd. Mae digon o amser i sgwennu cofnodion blog.
Dw i’n [...]
Are you a coder in the UK? Do you fancy tinkering around with government data for the potential good of the public?
Here’s an early Christmas present.
Visit data.gov.uk and it will bounce you on to a Google Group. Request to join the group and introduce yourself. You might get access to the developer preview of the [...]
I went to a public meeting at the Assembly buildings in Cardiff last night, which was a chance to meet Wales’ new Cross-Party Digital Group and have a discussion to answer the question:
“How can we make better use of new media and digital technology to engage with the people of Wales?”.
The members of the group [...]
I’m going to be writing more about politics on this blog.
My interest is how politics might relate to technology, business and “ordinary” people in the UK – with a particular emphasis on Wales.
As a personal rule I try and stay away from the various personalities and day-to-day machinations, allegiances, squabblings, who wore what clothes and [...]
The Welsh Assembly Government generates a lot of its own news.
The news is available as separate RSS feeds for 22 different topics, which is good. Actually, double that because there are 22 in English and the same 22 in Cymraeg.
This week I wanted to subscribe to a complete feed of everything, but I couldn’t find [...]
This post is written in Welsh and is about changes happening in Cardiff and Wales, where I live. The Google Translate version will give you the gist in English or another language of your choice. Incidentally the title means “Changes in Cardiff and Wales”. Each placename happens to have a Welsh mutation in the title. [...]
My name's Carl Morris and this is my blog. It's about language, music, art, business and other stuff I care about.
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