Comments on: Why blog aggregators should have language filters

By: Language Secret

Language Secret — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 11:59:45 +0000

Hi Sam
Language filtering for the body text is obviously a good idea. However as time has gone by ‘translate with google’ has come on in leaps and bounds, although not yet good enough to translate this metaphor.

By: Bob Staple

Bob Staple — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 05:49:09 +0000

Guten Tag – Hier ist ein sehr schooner Site. Cheap Staples

Danke!
Bob Staple

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By: Kai

Kai — Mon, 17 Nov 2003 07:17:30 +0000

Sam, 100% agree on you – language filters do make a lot of sense. But – don’t forget that maxbloggers.com is some sort of a temporarily used aggregator. It’s used to show the world how international the MX community is and that there are a lot people contributing to it in countries like Brazil, the Netherlands or Germany.

Since the release of maxbloggers.com I noticed a strong increase in readers of my MAX category.
There might be two reasons for that:

1. German-speaking MX-related people not using CF, Spectra, JRun (the stuff we blog on) who found us “accidentally” by browsing maxbloggers.com for Flash, Fireworks, Contribute etc. stuff.

2. Non German-speaking people who are interested in what we’re writing there and using some sort of translation tool for getting the core information.

Both is great and is a great support for the community in countries not speaking/writing English as the first language. And – to come to the point – I’m quite sure it won’t happen like this and we would lose a lot of potential readers of 1 and 2 when using language filters. So – for me it’s a great push for the MM-related blog posting in other languages that English!

I personally do try to read most of the foreign-language (Portuguese, Dutch) by using Altavista Toolbar in IE. I’m quite sure to miss a lot, but at least I got some information of the post.

By: Geoff Bowers

Geoff Bowers — Mon, 17 Nov 2003 07:01:24 +0000

Hmm.. interestingly enough Fullasagoog is at work on this as we speak. But I don’t want others to steal me thunder so that’s all I’ll say – stay tuned.

By: Danger

Danger — Mon, 17 Nov 2003 04:59:52 +0000

Good Idea~!

By: Chafic Kazoun

Chafic Kazoun — Mon, 17 Nov 2003 04:46:55 +0000

In RSS 2.0 there is a tag that usually identifies the language of the feed. In our RSS feed it is

en-us

By: Bryan F. Hogan

Bryan F. Hogan — Mon, 17 Nov 2003 04:31:23 +0000

Hi Sam, I agree with you 100%. What is the syntax for the language identifier for RSS?