automatic translations of blogs: useful or not?

[Andy Carvin <ACarvin@EDC.ORG>]

Hi everyone,

As an experiment I've just added links to translations of my blog into 11
other languages, courtesy of Altavista's BabelFish technology. Users can
now visit my blog and read it in English, Spanish, French, German, Dutch,
Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Greek, Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

Of course, Babelfish and other free online translators often don't give a
100% accurate translation, though they're usually competent at getting the
general idea across. So, I'm curious if there are any fluent speakers of
any of these languages who'd be willing to visit my blog and click on the
translation they can read, just to see if it's a legitmately useful tool or
just a bunch of linguistic garbage.

You can find my blog here:

http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/

From there, click the link for the appropriate language at the top of the
page.

All comments/suggestions are welcome, so please feel free to contact me
off-list at acarvin @ edc.org. thanks!

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Andy Carvin
Program Director
EDC Center for Media & Community
acarvin @ edc . org
http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org
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