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Maybe we are in for something here. Having been lectured with the infamous Joyanes' books, I quickly learned to get my info in English the minute I found gopher
by crpatino 18y ago
Maybe we are in for something here. Having been lectured with the infamous Joyanes' books, I quickly learned to get my info in English the minute I found gopher (way before I knew what an actual gopher looks like).
This bias has made me consider the English language as the fist gatekeeper for computer geeks in Latin America. There are here nice people with lots of potential who cannot read English, this is always going to be a liability for them. Fool you not. No matter how good you think you are, you would be better if you could drink directly from the source. (take that from I guy who has thought himself great one or two times, just to find otherwise the hard way)
In spite of that, I still believe that language shapes our thoughts (there is formal name for this, cannot recall it). We are missing of so much because have to express ourselves in a foreign language, and the community as a whole looses our collective perspective because there is no place to share it.
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Said that, I don't think a news agregator would be useful at this stage. The moronic crowds would take over (think moronic as in Slashdot, not as a racial comment). Maybe some arbitrated site a la StackOverflow would do.
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- iamelgringo 18y agoI really appreciate the input. I'm bilingual. My parents lived as expatriates in Central America for 20 years. I lived down there for the first 14 years of my life. I spend most of my time online in English, but I'm curious to find out what information is out there in Spanish. I'm about ready to release a beta of a social news application I've been working on. I'm wondering if releasing a site in Spanish would be worth it. There seems to be a lot of competition for the geek news market in English. I don't know if there's enough news to aggregate in Spanish or not. It seems that it might help the programming community if we could create a site dedicated to aggregating the information that's out there. The troll problem is, I think, separate from the content problem. Hopefully, we can build safeguards into the system to avoid the worst excesses.
- crpatino 18y agohang in there, buddy. You are on to something. My 2 cents: http://www.noticiaslinux.com/ http://www.noticiaslinux.com/ http://gruporeforma.mural.com/suplementos/interfase/?plazaconsulta=mural http://gruporeforma.mural.com/suplementos/interfase/?plazaco... (this is a local newspaper site, some news might require subscription to read)