{"id":239,"date":"2008-04-24T09:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T21:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/?p=239"},"modified":"2008-04-24T09:49:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T21:49:00","slug":"non-english-blog-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/non-english-blog-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-English blog roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always liked learning other languages (three in high school, a couple more at university, two more when I travelled to their respective countries, medieval Danish when I started writing a fantasy book set in medieval Denmark&#8230;) and a while ago it occurred to me that not only are there library blogs written in languages other than English, but it&#8217;d be nice to make some of what they&#8217;re saying accessible to the English-speaking world.<\/p>\n<p>I read two posts this morning that inspired me to start today.  Note that my grasp of the Scandinavian languages remains patchy, but hopefully my translations aren&#8217;t too misleading.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Daniel Forsman on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betabib.org\/?p=165\">Betabib<\/a> (Swedish) reports that &#8220;Inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/widgets.psu.edu\/\">Penn State&#8217;s work<\/a> I&#8217;ve just built an &#8216;HTML | iGoogle gadget generator&#8217; for our direct search function.&#8221;  You can see the resulting widget on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bibl.hj.se\/\">J\u00f6nk\u00f6ping H\u00f6gskolebiblioteket homepage<\/a> under &#8220;Direkts\u00f6kning&#8221; &#8211; the dropdown menu allows searching in various databases, and the &#8220;+Google&#8221; button allows users to add the search to their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/ig\">iGoogle<\/a> page.\n<\/li>\n<li>Erik H\u00f8y on <a href=\"http:\/\/bib-log.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/mellop.html\">Biblog<\/a> (Danish) points to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mellop.com\/\">Mellop<\/a>, a website which gives you a free email address that lasts for 15 minutes.  Why would you want an email address that you can&#8217;t use for longer than that?  Well, a lot of web services require you to give an email address when registering, which they send your password or confirmation to.  Maybe you don&#8217;t trust them to not keep spamming you, so give them a Mellop temporary address, receive the email with the password\/confirmation, and throw away the Mellop address.  Warning:  if you later forget your password for the web service, you&#8217;ll have a hard time convincing them to give it to you again now your Mellop email address no longer works.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/infobib.de\/blog\/features\/libworld\/\">LibWorld<\/a> has a great round-up of blogs in various countries, which I&#8217;ll have to look through properly at some time(s).  Does anyone know of any other non-English library blogs I should be following?  I can probably get more or less sense out of French, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, and the Scandinavian languages.  I probably couldn&#8217;t get much out of Korean, but it&#8217;d be fun trying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always liked learning other languages (three in high school, a couple more at university, two more when I travelled to their respective countries, medieval Danish when I started writing a fantasy book set in medieval Denmark&#8230;) and a while ago it occurred to me that not only are there library blogs written in languages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[119,131,90,13,147],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}