Category Archives: wales

Hacio’r Iaith article for Planet Magazine

The arts and politics magazine Planet has just published my short article with thoughts about Hacio’r Iaith, on their website. In it I mention open events, social media, intellectual property, open source and WordPress. All views are mine – as if I could ever presume to speak on behalf of such a diverse community as [...]

Blogiau lleol am Cardiff, Cymru

Mae tair enghraifft o wefannau am newyddion lleol yn y brifddinas yn dechrau.

Bydd y blog The Guardian gan ‘beatblogger’ lleol yn dechrau cyn hir. Roedd Guardian yn esbonio’r meddyliau a staff tu ôl y fenter. Twitter: GdnCardiff
Mae yourCardiff newydd wedi cael eu lansiad gan Media Wales. Mae 16 person gwahanol yn cyfrannu ond mae un [...]

Datblygu gyda Datblygu

I need to set myself some new challenges with my Welsh learning. The next will be book-related. That means picking one up and reading it. But it needs to be a good one with the right level of challenge. (Previous posts about learning Welsh)
Rhaid i mi fendio her newydd yn fy anturiaethau Cymraeg.
Dw i’n teimlo [...]

Hacio’r Iaith – what it is, why it is and what happened (monster post!)

A group of us did a free, open event in Aberystwyth on 30th January 2010 called Hacio’r Iaith. It was fun. I learned things. It was based on the BarCamp format. You can use the format to have a conference on any subject and many people do. Some people call it an unconference.
The reasons we [...]

A Useful Fiction by Patrick Hannan

Sometimes I feel as if I’m always playing catch-up.
This book “A Useful Fiction“, which came out last year, has just brought me reasonably up-to-date with devolution of the United Kingdom, particularly some of the finer details which I’d missed.
It has many good insights into the idea of Britain and its democracy, or rather democracies. The [...]

Can we trust BARB’s viewing figures for Sgorio on S4C?

Yesterday The Telegraph printed a story about S4C viewing figures for the football programme Sgorio:
Sgorio – Welsh for score – turned into a no score draw on the night despite regularly pulling in tens of thousands of viewers on other nights.
It is a regular show on Channel Four in Wales featuring top matches from the [...]

Ychwanega Google Translate i dy wefan

Wyt ti’n sgennu gwefan yn y Gymraeg? Wyt ti eisiau parhau ac agor mynediad dy wefan?
Dyma sut ti’n gallu ychwanegu Google Translate i dy flog neu gwefan.
http://www.google.com/webelements/translate/
Pwysig! Rhaid i ti newid “pageLanguage: en” ac ysgrifennu “pageLanguage: cy” yn lle. (Neu dy côd iaith dau lythyr rwyt ti’n defnyddio yn barod!)
Enghraifft: gwela Y Twll ar y [...]

All Wales Convention – Closed!

Remember the recent All Wales Convention? Yesterday they sent me this message via Facebook:
Diolch am ymaelodi a’r Grwp hwn. Gan fod yr Adroddiad wedi ei gyhoeddi bellach, rydym wedi cadw cofnod o gynnwys y Grwp Gweplyfr a’i ddirwyn i ben.
Thanks for joining the Group. Since the Report has now been published, we have kept a [...]

Vote for Twitter to be translated into Welsh

At the moment Twitter’s web interface is only available in four languages – English, Japanese, French and Spanish. Also on the way now are Italian and German.
So Twitter Inc have decided to increase support for the world’s languages, which is an excellent move. They’ll be asking users to collaborate on translating the interface, which again [...]

Wales! The best a man can get. Etc.

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.