Netvibes and Arabic
January 15, 2009dominique Comments OffSo I was stumbling around the web today like usual and came across Netvibes, an RSS/widget aggregator that lets you create a homepage of personalized favorites. As someone who got really RSS happy for a while I thought it was kind of cool to be able to see all my favorite feeds displayed at once and from any computer. Michael Wensch of Kansas State is using it as the Digital Ethnography homepage/portal, and what a wealth of info. (If you haven’t seen the Digital Ethnography YouTube project check it out) Started a Netvibes homepage but need to play with it some more…
Also got invited to join a Goodreads group called “Underground Thought” by someone in Iran who “friended” me (I don’t know what you call it for Goodreads). I like the title so decided to check it out. The first post was in Arabic. I plugged it into Google translator and this is a sample of what I got:
] اولین base: it’s the principle of time, the ghosts of بی خبری …. By Sraghtan می آیند broke Ha der Webster sleep, روزها der گوشه taking, warned باشید’s New آنها and even سایه These Ra جدی بگیرید. چرا که Roozbarha smuggled Annan Ra دیدار می below and your New NBA خبرید.
So I’m going to hold off joining the group. I kind of want to know what they’re discussing. I do find the books he reads interesting (the ones I recognize), and have learned about authors I didn’t know existed (like Abdolkarim Soroush) so it’s all good.
Geez, it just occurred to me that the post was probably in farsi, not arabic. Duh. What an American I am. Maybe I’ll try that translator again…