#meedan

[ijnet-english]

Meedan is launching an Arab world newsletter, connecting journalists with 'digital fixers'

The Arab Media Roundup pilot project is scheduled to kick off on June 2 and run throughout July

Meedan’s new Arab Media Roundup will run as a weekly pilot project throughout June and July, providing a curated list of stories from news outlets in the region, trending topics and humorous coverage and illustrations.

[greggyour]

Tweeting across borders: With a new mobile app, @Meedan is working to improve social media translation @Meedan — a hybrid for-profit and nonprofit group that focuses on global journalism and translation — has built Bridge, a mobile-first platform for translating social media posts.

[linguacode]

Born of practise, Translatedesk is designed to support the work of existing communities doing this work and to encourage the creation of new communities around interest areas that might be driven by keyword, hashtag, event, or individual. Acting as a combination of a versatile client and rich repository, Translatedesk is web-based software designed to streamline the process of creating, requesting and reviewing translations across the multitude of languages available on the internet, from Arabic to Mandarin to Spanish to English, and beyond.

[linguacode]

"Before there was a dream of machine translation, there was a dream of a common language as the rational antidote to Babel."

Ed Bice: Social Media Translation and Technology (by AUC)

[thevoiceofsyria]

Footage from Al Meedan neighborhood of Damascus...

[fictionthatmatters-blog]

The range of vernaculars that comprise Arabic is much more varied than the range of vernaculars that are typically considered to comprise European languages like English and French, and this makes the linguistic environment much more fluid and harder to translate using automated techniques (aka, Machine Translation or MT).

[experimenthol]

My post on the Meedan blog on Facebook Translation.

[experimenthol]

Really important development from Facebook - it will be interesting to see how this pans out. I plan a longer post for the Meedan blog, which I'll also share here.