The State of Online Subtitling
In a recent post, “Indigenous Protests, Wikileaks and Online Subtitles” I focused on the social and historical importance of adding subtitles to online video, especially as it relates to those who promote human rights and inclusive rural development. Most...
Indigenous Protests, Wikileaks and Online Subtitles
In June 2009, residents of Lima realized just how far removed their urban media were from the reality of daily life in the north of Peru. Peruvian protesters in June 2009 at Devil’s Curve. Photograph by Enrique Castro-Mendivil. The Protest Earlier in the...Mexico’s SB-1070
The following is my translation of Alberto Escorcia’s post, “Ley General de Población, una SB-1070 a la mexicana”, which was originally published on Pateando Piedras under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share alike license. Photographs are by Don...![[Translation] Global Voices' Project Lingua: A complementary and alternative perspective to traditional media](https://i0.wp.com/farm4.static.flickr.com/3188/2641356707_a55a75c8d9.jpg?w=425)
[Translation] Global Voices' Project Lingua: A complementary and alternative perspective to traditional media
The following is my translation of Paula Gonzalo’s interview with Juan Arellano about the Lingua Project on Global Voices. Links have been changed to their English-language equivalents when possible. Juan Arellano is one of the bloggers who, beginning in 2007,...
The Expansion of Ignorance is Inevitable
In The Omnivore’s Dilema Michael Pollan reminds us that food is an inelastic good, which is to say that, obesity aside, there is a limit to how many calories a person can consume in a single day. Any more and we would explode. Once we all reach that caloric...Latest Photos
