http://wordpress.relocution.com translating information images ideas Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:46:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Brilliant multi-lingual word-play in this old WWI Punch cartoon from the JISC Digitisation Programme Blog. http://wordpress.relocution.com/2008/11/14/an-auld-alliance/ Learned today from the BBC about this Welsh road-sign, in which the Welsh text is not a translation of the English text ("No entry for heavy goods vehicles..."), but apparently reads "I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated." Since this was ... http://wordpress.relocution.com/2008/11/12/translation-perils-strike-again/ Is it really eighteen years since a heady combination of Tuscan sun and European novels engendered this little riff? AH, WILHELM! How can life simultaneously and at the same time be so deliciously exhilarating and yet so perplexing? Why is my life such a trial? Consider but this instance alone, ... http://wordpress.relocution.com/2008/10/24/ex-archivis-werther-in-italy/ A badly spelled spam email put this word in my mind. Sounds very Day Today (meganews, newsatrolysis, factgasm) but seems they didn't coin that one. Seems like a great name for some kind of news gathering system or online service, Web 2.0 no doubt. Some if not all of the ... http://wordpress.relocution.com/2008/10/14/infomassage/ Another piece from the "archives": a ten year-old report on my first tip to an academic (or para-academic) conference, Digital Resources in the Humanities, at Glasgow University, September 1998, Originally published online in the NDAD Newsletter #4, November 1998. On September 9th I travelled with Ruth Vyse, the University Archivist, and ... http://wordpress.relocution.com/2008/10/13/ex-archivis-drh-98-in-glasgow/ The Beatles are now no less seminal than Shakespeare in English culture, and it was interesting to hear on the radio that someone has busied themselves setting Shakespeare's sonnets to The Beatles' music.  Can't find any links, but it made me wonder whether Wordle Word Clouds could bring out any ... http://wordpress.relocution.com/2008/10/06/john-paul-george-ringo-and-will/ Fascinating discussion today on Radio 4's In Our Time about the translation movement in medieval Baghdad. Between the 9th and 11th centuries, a wealth of Greek philosophy, medicine, engineering and maths was translated into Arabic. In many cases, our present-day knowledge of these Classical writers is entirely due to the ... http://wordpress.relocution.com/2008/10/02/the-translation-movement/ Or The Power of Flickr, Part 2. Received today a complimentary copy of a smashing little art book, Signs and symbols by Mark Hampshire and Keith Stephenson. Mark and Keith contacted us a while back about Olya's collection of Soviet enamel badges, displayed on Flickr under the moniker Sovznak, and ... http://wordpress.relocution.com/2008/09/15/signs-and-symbols/ Full account of my adventures on DA Blog, but here's the Slideshare version of my presentation. Maybe I'll add commentary one day. On the margins of scholarshipview presentation (tags: repositories web 2.0 universities) http://wordpress.relocution.com/2008/04/05/open-repositories-2008/ Our friend Vov went to Edinburgh, and gave a thumbs-up to the Edinburgh Castle audio guide in Russian. Great to have such positive feedback on my recent translation. http://wordpress.relocution.com/2007/12/07/audio-guide-listeners-feedback-october-2007/