Julie McDonough Dolmaya, PhD

Blogging about translation and localization

Is “cognitive surplus” behind social translation?

Julie McDonough Dolmaya | July 23, 2010

This morning, I was catching up on the BBC’s Digital Planet podcasts while I was out for a jog, and I heard this interview with Clay Shirky, who argues that worldwide, one trillion hours of spare human time is available on a yearly basis for collaborative efforts such as Wikipedia. He refers to these hours [...]

CATS Conference at Concordia University, Part II

Julie McDonough Dolmaya | July 15, 2010

Well, it’s now more than a month since I got back from Concordia, and I’ve only just gotten around to writing about a really interesting presentation I attended while I was away. I put the blame squarely on house-hunting and the subsequent packing, moving and unpacking, which all required more time than I was [...]