Julie McDonough Dolmaya, PhD

Blogging about translation and localization

Crowdsourcing: One of the top two threats to professional translators?

Julie McDonough Dolmaya | March 26, 2010

According to a recent recent article in Translorial, the journal of the Northern California Translators Association, the American Translators Association Board had just declared crowdsourcing one of the top two threats to the profession and the association. It was tied with the economic downturn.
A companion piece that was also part of the February 2010 [...]

Predicting the future of translation, circa 1960

Julie McDonough Dolmaya | February 4, 2010

I came across a fascinating blog today: Paleo-Future: A look into the future that never was showcases and discusses primary sources from the 1870s-1990s that predicted what the future would like. Since 2007, Matt Novak has written more than 500 posts, each of which provides a brief comment on a historical document (advertisements and newspaper [...]