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Comment on 'Skanky mink' by Geneen

2011-03-28T08:56:31Z

No idea what he was saying, that cannot be English or even Scots English, where's Rab C. when you need him.

Comment on 'Skanky mink' by Carl Morris

2011-03-25T18:50:38Z

Yes exactly. I was asking somebody about a small language recently, he explained yes they have a board, they have a policy, they have software, they have some signage. "But do they have hip-hop?!" I exclaimed. I suppose it goes for popular music in general though, as well as hip-hop.

Comment on 'Indigenous Tweets' by Carl Morris

2011-03-19T03:22:34Z

He's doing language recognition with a corpus of words. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/using_twitter_to_preserve_minority_languages.php

Comment on 'Twitter and cy.umap.eu' by Carl Morris

2011-03-09T17:32:05Z

Umap is also a client - you can post from there. So it's now possible to experience Twitter purely in Welsh, interface and content - if you want to. Daniel, I'd like to see you elaborate on this if possible: though there are still issues in terms of their validity as a research tool

Comment on 'Now with added ads' by Carl Morris

2011-03-02T13:01:09Z

Every time you visit a web page your browser gives away information about you as it makes the request, including which browser, language, timezone, etc. You should visit the following to see what other info you're giving out. https://panopticlick.eff.org At the moment out of all the people who have visited Panopticlick I am uniquely identifiable and traceable from my browser settings! You may have seen some of this data in decent analytics software like Google Analytics. I can segment visitors to my sites by language setting, city, browser and other attributes.

Comment on 'Scamraeg' by MBM

2011-03-02T08:54:57Z

That's nothing. We Irish speakers have been spammed in machine-translation "Irish" for years now. It *is* progress, but not as we know it.

Comment on 'Scamraeg' by Dafydd Tomos

2011-03-01T20:26:55Z

It's been happening for a few years for contact forms (with bots detecting the page language before submitting content). I started seeing direct email spam in Welsh almost a year ago. That's actually a bit odd, since my email address doesn't appear anywhere linked to Welsh text (apart from some old Usenet postings perhaps, but I used a different address there). The email address itself doesn't really provide a link to a specific language either so I'm not sure how the target language is chosen when sending that type of spam.

Comment on 'Now with added ads' by Dafydd Tomos

2011-03-01T20:23:35Z

Google/Doubleclick have allowed geo-targeting of adverts for many years (there's no point paying for showing the advert outside your target market). Doubleclick also provide adverts within Spotify and I've seen a few ads about the referendum. If I remember correctly, there was one ad in English and a separate one in Welsh. I've also seen lots of generic adverts with the area or town name inserted into the content. Advertising and geo-targeting is quite sophisticated these days. It's not foolprof however - our IP range at work has suddenly started appearing in GeoIP databases as being in Port-Talbot (we're in Cardiff).

Comment on 'Iaith Fyw : Iaith Byw ' by Daniel Cunliffe

2010-12-14T09:49:55Z

Now with added openness http://wales.gov.uk/consultations/welshlanguage/wlsconsultation/?lang=en&status=open

Comment on 'Interactive map of Welsh speakers' by Carl Morris

2010-11-18T16:51:08Z

If you're wondering the map was made by Hywel Jones http://twitter.com/#!/hywelm/status/5247180256313346

Comment on 'Easy .cym easy .go?' by Dafydd Tomos

2010-11-12T12:25:59Z

Not sure if you got my last comment or not, as this blog software is a bit flakey. ICANN has been working for many years on preparing a new process of applying for top-level domains, discussing the rules/policies that will be applied for applications. This has taken years because of various disagreements on how to handle this, particularly in the legal field - many want to protect their own interests and ensure that trademarks/company names/country names and yes ISO codes are all given some protection. Under old policies, countries that have a three-letter TLD in ISO-3166-1 would get 'first refusal' if someone wanted to apply for those TLDs for their own purpose. Under this policy the Cayman Islands could still refuse to allow CYM to be used by someone else, and they did so. Under the draft policies for generic TLDs published by ICANN back in May here they explicitly disallow applications where the TLD matches an ISO-3166-1 code. So.. this may not be 'news' as such. The Cayman Islands may not ever use the .cym TLD, they've just blocked its use (in fact it would be unwise for them to migrate or mirror their .ky domain, since it would create confusion and additional costs for their own domain owners). Given that .cym is unfeasible, and that ICANN will probably be finalising their policies soon, this is why DotCym are looking for a new domain extension that will be valid under the new policies and more likely to be approved.

Comment on 'Easy .cym easy .go?' by Daniel Cunliffe

2010-11-11T16:08:16Z

Reading the dotCYM site, they refer to it as a "rule change", so Dafydds comments look to be right. I'd still be interested in knowing in more detail what has actually changed.

Comment on 'Easy .cym easy .go?' by Daniel Cunliffe

2010-11-11T14:30:32Z

Assuming that Dafydd is correct in disputing the notion that the Caymen Islands have "registered" the domain, then it is hard to see where the actual story is. Presumably something has altered, been ratified, etc that has changed the likelihood that .cym could be used as a Welsh domain? Or is this just a total non-story?

Comment on 'Easy .cym easy .go?' by Dafydd Tomos

2010-11-09T11:52:51Z

They haven't 'registered' it. ICANN delegates top-level country domains to the registries that run those domains for each country. They haven't delegated .cym yet and I can't find any source at ICANN or the Cayman Islands registry that says anything about it. I do know that some individuals have tried to change ICANN policy so that three-letter domains can be released for other uses despite them being reserved according to ISO-3166-1, but I don't think that was ever passed (I'm sure that would have been big news).

Comment on 'Easy .cym easy .go?' by Mark Turner

2010-11-09T10:29:37Z

I expect the Cayman Islands have registered the tld with the sole intention of selling it to Welsh people :) Seriously though, it may not be officially Welsh, but, assuming the tld is made available for use by anyone, what's the problem with using it anyway in an unofficial capacity?