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Coming
\n to you live from the floor of the Internet and Society 2004 conference
\n at the Harvard Law School. Today the sessions are being held in
\n Pound Hall, which miraculously does have functioning wireless access,
\n so participants in the current session "Global Voices – International
\n Blogging Track – How to Build a Blogosphere" are madly blogging away
\n on a variety of technology (although Macs predominate).<\/p>\n
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\n Voices<\/a> is a joint project by a group of concerned
\n blogging internationists who are trying to act as a clearinghouse, support
\n forum, contact point and promotor of projects to promote blogging around
\n the world. Early projects, and the present presentation, deal with
\n Iran and Aftrica<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\n have personally net only two indigenous Ecuadorian bloggers, but certainly
\n there are more. Do we have anything to contribute to the development
\n of the Ecuadorian blogosphere?<\/p>\n
\n one of the barriaers they are discussing right now – language. As
\n indigenous blogospheres sprout around the globe like mold on a ten-year-old
\n sandwich, most of the grass roots blogging is being done in non-English
\n languages. At the same time, English is for better or worse, the
\n lingua franca of the Internet as well as international commerce, communication
\n and
\n culture. How to make this language barrier as permeable as possible? Reliable
\n machine translation is still years if not decades away.<\/p>\n