Re: [DDN] [Multilingualism in Cyberspace] Perhaps more complex than that

2006-02-12 Thread Cindy Lemcke-Hoong
Hello Dave, You post is VERY long indeed. I will try to have a short post, and perhaps later if there are more comments from others. Perhaps you might want to think why you have English as your first langauge now, and so am I. We both grew up in countries that once belong to the British Empire.

[DDN] Announcing the Second National Summit for Community Wireless Networks -- March 31-April 2, 2006. St. Charles, MO.

2006-02-12 Thread Sascha Meinrath
Hi everyone, Below is the invite to the Second National Summit for Community Wireless Networks that we're hosting right outside St. Louis March 31-April 2, 2006. We rely on word-of-mouth to get the word out about this event, so please forward this out to your friends and relevant e-mail lists.

[DDN] [Net-Gold] Exam Measures Students' 'Information Literacy'

2006-02-12 Thread David P. Dillard
This post from Bonnie Bracey regarding a CNN article about an ETS test for information literacy skills may be of interest to the members of this discussion group. Sincerely, David Dillard Temple University (215) 204 - 4584 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Net-Gold http://groups.yahoo.com/group/net-gold

Re: [DDN] [Multilingualism in Cyberspace] Perhaps more complex than that

2006-02-12 Thread Linda Ullah
Dave, CIndy and others, Here are some interesting language statistics--just to through this into the discussion: List of languages by number of native speakers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_speakers The 30 most spoken languages of the

[DDN] FW: [GIO] Benedict College Division of Community Development - Technology Summit

2006-02-12 Thread Michael Maranda
On Behalf Of Chuck Sherwood Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 9:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; CC-Media Reform; Media Activist; GIO listserv Subject: [GIO] Benedict College Division of Community Development - Technology Summit To All: Check out this conference that is happening at the end of the

Re: [DDN] [Multilingualism in Cyberspace] Perhaps more complex than that

2006-02-12 Thread Andy Carvin
A couple of years ago I compared data regarding the number of websites in different languages with the number of people around the world who spoke those languages. For example, at the time there were around 214 million web pages in English, and around 322 million 1st language English speakers,