Why You Should Adopt An ‘Accessible Content Strategy’

May 24, 2010 Uncategorized 10 Comments

By Scott Smith, Invisible Fist Before diving too deeply into this discussion about the need for an accessible content strategy, I have a confession to make. I have never worked on a project in which content accessibility was included in the requirements. You may think that makes me a little bit like those characters played by Fred Willard and Catherine O’Hara in the movie “Waiting for Guffman”; that owned a travel agency, but had never left the town in which they were born. I like to think my case is …

What Is A Book And Why Does It Matter? [Part Two]

May 7, 2010 Uncategorized 1 Comment

By Richard Hamilton, special to The Content Wrangler Part one of this two part series looked into what a “book” really is. While I suggest you read that article first, for the impatient, here it is in one paragraph: Beyond the now obsolete “dictionary” definition of a book as a physical object, five qualities define a book: selection, organization, editing, packaging, and distribution. Although not part of any definition I could find, these “defining qualities” of a book have existed for as long as we have had books, and they …

Opening Video: MarkLogic 2010 User Conference

May 6, 2010 Uncategorized No Comments

As is customary, the MarkLogic User Conference opens with a video designed to get the audience excited about the show, the company’s products, and all the really innovative solutions users can create with them. This year’s video was created from content fragments pulled from the databases of MarkLogic clients and set to music in classic story-telling form. What do you think?

Norm Walsh: XML Rock Star (You’re Gonna Love This!)

May 6, 2010 Uncategorized 1 Comment

The winning video from the MarkLogic employee video contest. Created by Paxton and featuring XML guru Norm Walsh as the “XML Rock Star”, this humorous video is sure to make you chuckle, especially if you know Norm.

L10N Reality Check: Industry Insider Shines Light On The Dirty Little Secrets Of The Translation And Localization Industry That You Won’t Learn At A Webinar

May 3, 2010 Uncategorized 13 Comments

By the Masked Localization Insider, special to The Content Wrangler If you’ve attended webinars on globalization, translation or localization lately you’ve undoubtedly heard a lot of happy talk about the “revolution” occurring in the translation world. Cloud computing, crowd-sourcing, new aggregates of translation memory, mystic project management portals and constrained (or simplified) English are all supposedly leading us to a shiny new world where “invisible servants” translate and disseminate our content to a vast and disperse global audience. The 1939 New York World’s Fair promised “The World of Tomorrow” too. …