Privacy, GDPR, and EU AI Act
There are several questions that arise around privacy and AI. This post will be a high-level overview of the topics […]
Why is this called the word in bits? Because all of my work has revolved around words online (in bits). My work in teaching, publishing, localization, machine translation, and international expansion all depend on the “written word” and the scripts used to represent it.
I spent half of my working life as an educator and the other half in globalization. I currently run a globalization consulting business, but I am always investigating new opportunities in the quickly changing technology industry. My interests are broad and these blog posts represent some of my thinking on each of these spaces.
I believe we are living in an age of transition. We are shifting from analog to digital, physical to virtual, and specialized intelligence to artificial intelligence (and perhaps even general). We will forget much, discover more, offload some, and rush to keep up as we have more inputs, demands and requirements upon us.
New tools and technologies make the world smaller and varied, mask and highlight differences, provide infinite opportunities for equality and bias, enable and endanger democracy, erode and strengthen privacy, automagically translate and mistranslate languages, shift capitalism from goods and services to surveillance and targeting and will remake everything from birth to death and finance to education in the years to come. Manual farming and M'Choakumchild child education have all been altered by AI and ML And VR/AR/MR are altering our very perceptions of the world and each other.
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 depend 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 “fire drills” (issues that needed to be addressed immediately to avoid larger […]
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 that 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 e-reader device makers would have you believe that they will usher in a new […]
Nicholas Carr refers to the great unbundling in his book The Big Switch. Carr claims that the internet is unbundling […]
Soon large media conglomerates will scramble to address an inversion of their current publication model. Amazon’s straight-to-device self-publishing platform (Digital […]
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 e-readers 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 […]