There are several questions that arise around privacy and AI. This post will be a high-level overview of the topics […]

In a previous post I discussed how the C-Suite can accidentally cause global expansion fails. As I promised, in this […]

Problem Once a company launches a product in a single country outside the United States (OUS) every feature team needs […]

Making a mold For international launches to be efficient they must be repeatable. This requires creating repeatable processes that will […]

Once the work is underway for a global-ready stack we can turn to making a plan for how to use […]

Components The components of a global framework that will make expansion to any new market possible depends on a company’s […]

I’ve had the privilege at working with a lot of different companies to help them launch in new markets. So […]

Before moving on to the promised framework for global product I have to zoom even further out and look at […]

  This blog began as an exploration of ebooks and localization. The more time I spent in the language industry […]

Gamesparks and Playfab are ground zero for what will be one of the most interesting battlegrounds for cloud services. Though […]

This post appears on the LocWorld 41 blog here. I first realized localization was a career when I began doing […]

Where to Begin Have there been any localization “firedrills” (issues that needed to be addressed immediately to avoid larger catastrophes?)  […]

Let’s start by dissecting a multi-sided service platform using WELD. Choose your own adventure here. You can choose Angie’s List, […]

Most companies don’t wake up and decide that the whole world needs their product. They are too busy trying to […]

MT as a walled garden Don’t get me wrong there is a lot of value in MT. And with advances […]

So maybe you’ve found this mildly interesting if you are actually in a position to move a whole company’s localization […]

I begin with a Mark Twain quote because the data for localization is confusing to outsiders and it really serves […]

Data in WELD I use the term data rather than content since I am referring to not only content, the […]

I break the tools into 2 categories 1. Content lifecycle tools 2. Translation management tools. I briefly touched on translation […]

The necessary infrastructure So if localization production is the tip of the iceberg in Whole Enterprise Localization design what is […]

Localization as we know it The most obvious area of localization and the one that most organizations are familiar with […]

Working in a Silo: One of the most difficult challenges of localization is working with a bunch of siloed teams. […]

  I’ve been thinking a lot about a field that doesn’t exist.  The reason is because I spent 7 years […]

  Almost 8 years ago I started this blog with a discussion of copyright law. My goal was to catch […]

After seven and a half years at Amazon I’ve recently left. At Amazon I purposely lived in the shadows because […]

 When I first realized I had found a new career (2010) I wrote this article  on becoming a localization project […]

This is the swan song for this blog. Every good thing comes to an end, and sadly this blog has […]

A few examples of the coming shift in publishing can be seen swirling around two Ne(i)(a)ls. Neil Gaiman and Neal […]

[Note: I just published this yesterday and now I have to revise it! Apple has now made their play for […]

The Elements of Typographic Style is a masterpiece of a dying art.  Robert Bringhurst is a man of content and […]

Text-to-speech(TTS)  is one of the experimental features added to the Kindle 2 and it caused a huge controversy. In this […]

The looming problem in ebook copyright may curtail the growth and longevity of this burgeoning industry.  The problem seems to […]

This was originally written in 2007.   Though it does not directly discuss ereaders the relationship is clear. The article […]

The biggest dilemma facing content editors and their consumers in the digital age is copyright protection.  Publishers and authors want […]

ETEXTBOOK DREAM The glossy ads of ereader device makers would have you believe that they will usher in a new […]

Nicholas Carr refers the great unbundling in his book The Big Switch. Carr claims that the internet is unbundling content […]

 Soon large media conglomerates will scramble to address an inversion of their current publication model. Amazon’s straight to device self-publishing […]

Ironically Amazon’s Kindle may eventually cannibalize one of their most profitable areas- used books.  No ebook seller has yet created […]

An upcoming development in ereaders will be the battle for revenue from non-English content.  Though Amazon has made large strides […]

Jeff Bezos has said of the Kindle “The one thing you’ll notice about the Kindle is that it does disappear […]

  Amazon’s Digital Text Platform (now KDP) and all those services that copy it will necessitate the rise of Cloud […]

In the digital era of books, I’ve come to the conclusion I have to distinguish between books and the ideas […]