Comments on: Gooooooooaaaal, in any language: Boston Globe uses Google Translate to expand its soccer blog’s reach

By: What's Happening On the Web? Multilingual Websites. | Image Space Media Blog

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:15:31 +0000

[...] on their soccer blog, Corner Kicks. David Beard, Boston.com’s editor told Harvard University’s Nieman Journalism Lab that he loves the service and “it’s a great opportunity…to bring people into the tent.” [...]

By: The Wikipedia of news translation: Yeeyan.org’s volunteer community » Nieman Journalism Lab

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:02:00 +0000

[...] of content to foreign-language audiences for very little cost, through communities like Yeeyan, or machine translation, or a combination of the two as in the hybrid World Wide Lexicon project. Such translations would [...]

By: Kathleen Bostick

Kathleen Bostick — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:32:22 +0000

Kudos to David and the Boston Globe for trying to reach beyond the English readers! Implementing a machine translation tool, such as Google translate, is a great first step. It’s better than no translation and it should be able to give your readers at least the “gist” of what they are reading. There are many challenges in addressing global audiences and providing them with multilingual content. I’ve recently written a blog post that focuses on the 4 Key Challenges of Multilingual Blogging. I would love you and your readers’ feedback and suggestions. http://bit.ly/AriMLblog ~Kathleen