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Alain Désilets’ (National Research Council of Canada) presentation at the PHP Québec CodeFest2008 on the challenges of massive translation collaboration in the wiki environment, and proposal for a cross lingual wiki engine concept to tackle the problem.

The presentation was followed by an intensive brainstorming session on the said engine, which itself led to a coding session after.

The video/sound is unedited and the quality isn’t fantastic, but it’s getting the word out that counts, right? :)

See also: Heri’s report on Montreal Tech Watch.

Spirit: I was so gonna show you the DRM of Copyright Past, but you totally wasted my time with your music infringement… Rudy: Satire!

Via Hugh McGuire.

56 Geeks poster, by Scott Johnson.

I’ll leave to your imagination which 11 out of 56 types I could be associated with.

And by the way, it’s a rhetorical question. ;-)

Patrick Tanguay led me to Apple’s announcement of the new TV programming offering through iTunes Canada.

I have to admit that I share his lack of enthusiasm for their offer… There’s just no way I’m going to spend money on 4:3 ratio video.

All my screens are 16:9 or 16:10: mac laptop, external monitors, iPhone, and so on. And whatever I’ll buy in the foreseeable future will obviously not going to be any other way.

They’re obviously targeting the last two remaining iPod models with such screen proportions, the Classic and Nano, but it’s just not for me. Sorry.

Nice try though. A bit late maybe but nice.

From SciVee: Pioneering New Modes of Scientific Dissemination:

Created for scientists, by scientists, SciVee moves science beyond the printed word and lecture theater taking advantage of the internet as a communication medium where scientists young and old have a place and a voice.

See also: Video sites let scientists show off experiments.

Beta starts December 3rd 2007.