Comments on: Volunteers needed in the search for Steve Fossett: Where crowdsourcing meets altruism http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/09/10/volunteers-needed-in-the-search-for-steve-fossett-where-crowdsourcing-meets-altruism/ a blog about information Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:37:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Andres Bianciotto http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/09/10/volunteers-needed-in-the-search-for-steve-fossett-where-crowdsourcing-meets-altruism/comment-page-1/#comment-186366 Andres Bianciotto Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:50:07 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/09/10/volunteers-needed-in-the-search-for-steve-fossett-where-crowdsourcing-meets-altruism/#comment-186366 Hello JP, thanks for this post. I'm getting my feet wet in Facebook, so the traction I can generate there is minimal (same as elsewhere, I'm a little guy), but when I received the Amazon MT newsletter that talked about the Fossett "HIT", FB seemed to be the best medium to spread the message. How come nobody did it? Well. I'll do it. You captured the essence: there are so many tools that can help us DO things towards a better world/life/self, that not using them, learning and experimenting with them would be unforgivable. On Spanish/English: I started translating most of my posts back in 2006 (except those a little too domestic), mainly as a way to recognize the global village. BL Ochman (seems like I know lots of people that use just their initials) translated one of my posts with an automated tool, and the result wasn't by far what I wanted to say, so "I'll do it" -again. All my translations were shorter than the original post. 20% because I guesstimated differently the background of the English-speaking audience, 80% because I can say the same with less words. It'll be a funny exercise to translate back from En to Sp and cut my posts to a third of the length. You're always welcome to come by. Leave a comment over there, with at least one phrase in Spanish. It can be fun :) Hello JP, thanks for this post.

I’m getting my feet wet in Facebook, so the traction I can generate there is minimal (same as elsewhere, I’m a little guy), but when I received the Amazon MT newsletter that talked about the Fossett “HIT”, FB seemed to be the best medium to spread the message. How come nobody did it? Well. I’ll do it.

You captured the essence: there are so many tools that can help us DO things towards a better world/life/self, that not using them, learning and experimenting with them would be unforgivable.

On Spanish/English: I started translating most of my posts back in 2006 (except those a little too domestic), mainly as a way to recognize the global village. BL Ochman (seems like I know lots of people that use just their initials) translated one of my posts with an automated tool, and the result wasn’t by far what I wanted to say, so “I’ll do it” -again.

All my translations were shorter than the original post. 20% because I guesstimated differently the background of the English-speaking audience, 80% because I can say the same with less words. It’ll be a funny exercise to translate back from En to Sp and cut my posts to a third of the length.

You’re always welcome to come by. Leave a comment over there, with at least one phrase in Spanish. It can be fun :)

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