Below is a list of all posts on this blog in chronological order. Past posts can also be viewed month-by-month using the “Archives” drop-down in the sidebar. To view posts listed by category, see “Categories.” This site also includes some material originally published elsewhere and archived separately as pages under “Other blogs.”
2008-2010
- New blog (Feb. 20, 2008)
- International Mother Language Day & International Year of Languages (Feb. 21, 2008)
- International Year of Planet Earth (Feb. 24, 2008)
- Reflecting on “Computing’s Final Frontier” (Feb. 26, 2008)
- International Year of the Potato (Feb. 28, 2008)
- 2008 Year of the Frog (Feb. 29, 2008)
- 2008 Linguapax Prize winner: Neville Alexander (Mar. 1, 2008)
- “Lost Crops of Africa” (Mar. 7, 2008)
- What about the “Declaration of Linguistic Rights”? (Mar. 31, 2008)
- Economics of language and the “long tail” effect (Apr. 10, 2008) [re-upped on Beyond Niamey]
- Economics of language and the “long tail” effect – part 2 (Apr. 17, 2008) [re-upped on Beyond Niamey]
- “The World of Soy” due out soon (Apr. 20, 2008)
- Opening of the National Museum of Language (Apr. 30, 2008)
- Distant rumblings [on hearing of the earthquake in Chengdu while in Bamako] (May 19, 2008)
- Paradigm shift on machine translation? (Jun. 30, 2008)
- Can we localize entire libraries? (Jul. 9, 2008)
- Mass digitization and oral traditions (Jul. 26, 2008)
- International Decade of Languages? (Dec. 31, 2008)
- VOA features on Lost Crops (Jan. 7, 2009)
- Reflections of a Vienna bicyclist (Jan. 30, 2009)
- 2009 Linguapax Prize winner: Katerina Te Heikoko Mataira (Feb. 21, 2009)
- International Mother Language Day 2009 concludes International Year of Langauges (Feb. 21, 2009)
- A Vienna bicyclist – epilogue (Oct. 24, 2009)
- International Decade of Languages proposed (Oct. 25, 2009)
- International Mother Language Day, 2010 (Feb. 21, 2010)
2015-present
- Reviving this blog (Apr. 1, 2015)
- CFP: Language and Development 2015 (May 19, 2015)
- Return of Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Dec. 1, 2015)
- Four millets: Recognizing the differences (Dec. 3, 2015)
- Four millets: 1. Pearl millet, or bajri (Dec. 4, 2015)
- Four millets: 2. Finger millet, or ragi (Dec. 7, 2015)
- Thoughts about COP21 on a warm December day (Dec. 14, 2015)
- Visualizing language, development, education & ICT connections (Dec. 20, 2015)
- Four millets: 3. Foxtail millet, or xiaomi (Dec. 26, 2015)
- Four millets: 4. Proso millet (Jan. 9, 2016)
- Four millets: More grains & the “millet spectrum” (Jan. 16, 2016)
- CFP: Language and the SDGs (Jan. 29, 2016)
- Terralingua “returns to its roots” (a CFP) (Feb. 1, 2016)
- International Year of Pulses 2016 (Feb. 5, 2016)
- International Mother Language Day, 2016 (Feb. 21, 2016)
- 2016 Linguapax Award to organizations in Australia & Canada (Feb. 22, 2016)
- Language and the SDGs, 21-22 April 2016 (Apr. 12, 2016)
- Sumbala, and the shifting worlds of locust beans & soybeans in West Africa (May 28, 2016)
- Multiple languages & globalization: Two upcoming conferences (June 11, 2016)
- Mountainbiking in the Futa Jalon, 1986-87 (a Peace Corps retrospective) (June 21, 2016)
- Terralingua’s Langscape, CFP extended (July 25, 2016)
- Biofuels reconsidered (Aug. 30, 2016)
- Literacy Day double take (Sep. 8, 2016)
- September 11, 2001 in Niamey (Sep. 11, 2016)
- Reimagining “language barrier” (Sep. 15, 2016)
- Settlements on Mars? Start in Earth’s deserts (Oct. 3, 2016)
- International Anti-Corruption Day 2016 (Dec. 9, 2016)
- CFP: Language, the SDGs, and Vulnerable Populations (Jan. 28, 2017)
- 2017, year of “Why are we doing this?” (WAWDT) (Feb. 3, 2017)
- WAWDT: FCC turning off low-income access to broadband? (Feb. 4, 2017)
- WAWDT: The “Muslim ban” breaks the “security triangle” (Feb. 12, 2017)
- “Security triangle” without the triangle (Feb. 15, 2017)
- WAWDT: USDA, animal welfare, and responses (Feb. 18, 2017)
- Two language museums in Washington (Feb. 20, 2017)
- International Mother Language Day 2017 & the Linguapax Prize (Feb. 21, 2017)
- Çatalhöyük & a line from Kōbō Abe (Feb. 22, 2017)
- New categories & LinkedIn archive (Feb. 22 & Mar. 10, 2017)
- AI & the self-driving resume: 1. The future of the job market (Mar. 31, 2017)
- AI & the self-driving resume: 2. The resume & the market (Apr. 2, 2017)
- AI & the self-driving resume: 3. How AI might work for job seekers & recruiters (Apr. 9, 2017)
- Earth Day 2017: Let’s stop industrial-scale burning of wood for energy (Apr. 22, 2017)
- A hidden class of “bike-to-workers”? (May 18, 2017)
- CFP: Language and Development 2017 (May 22, 2017)
- After digitizing libraries, translating knowledge? (July 31, 2017)
- Late Ming China & the contemporary United States (Aug. 31, 2017)
- Concluding 2017, looking forward to 2018 (Dec. 31, 2017)
- International Mother Language Day 2018 & the Linguapax Prize (Feb. 21, 2018)
- An International Year of Millets? (Mar. 31, 2018)
- Symposium on multilingualism in international organizations & cooperation, 10-11 May 2018 (Apr. 7, 2018)
- Earth Day 2018: One family’s small example, (Apr. 22, 2018)
- Zipper-merging & traffic as a system (June 1, 2018)
- “Dangling this” drip torture, or the “poor man’s clickbait” (June 23, 2018)
- Reframing “renewable energy” & “bioenergy” (July 4, 2018)
- A chess game with 32 intelligent pieces? (July 8, 2018)
- New look (July 29, 2018)
- Assimilation – in the 21st century? (Dec, 1, 2018)
- Vertical forests in the Sahara? (Dec. 19, 2018)
- Depth of language, limits of leaders (Dec. 29, 2018)
- “They” – a 1971 perspective on othering (Jan. 19, 2019)
- World Religion Day 2019: Protestant-Catholic relations in 2 American towns, in the mid-1800s (Jan. 20, 2019)
- International Year of Indigenous Languages, 2019 (Jan. 28, 2019)
- International Year of the Periodic Table, 2019 (Jan. 29, 2019)
- International Year of Moderation, 2019 (Mar. 31, 2019)
- International Year of Millets, 2023 (May 31, 2019)
- Updated renewables & burnables Venn diagram (June 27, 2019)
- Change & continuity in global development (July 14, 2019)
- International Decade of Indigenous Languages? (Aug. 31, 2019)
- Inclusion, Mobility & Multilingual Education Conference (Sep. 6, 2019)
- LUL’d awake (Nov. 25, 2019)
- “MEI,” “MIEL,” or “MINEL” languages? (Nov. 30, 2019)
- International Decade of Indigenous Languages! (Dec. 18, 2019)
- What happened to the Year of Moderation? (Dec. 25, 2019)
- 2020: A Year of Bicycling Backwards, (Dec. 31, 2020)
- International Year of Plant Health, 2020+, (May 31, 2021)
- Seven International Years & two Decades, (Dec. 31, 2021)
- Translation problems ahead of the International Year of Millets (IYOM2023)? (Jan. 21, 2022)
- IYOM2023 in French: Mils et/ou millets? (Jan.22, 2022)
- IYOM2023 in Spanish: ¿Los mijos? (Jan. 30, 2022)
- IYOM2023 in Russian, Arabic & Chinese: Specific terms &/or generic meanings? (Feb. 6, 2022)
- IYOM2023 in Hindi: A new term, in the plural, (Feb. 7, 2022)
- IYOM2023 & translation: “Multi-local” millets go global, (Feb. 20, 2022)
All blog posts are “mirrored” on donosborn.wordpress.com. The first two posts in 2015 were first posted there and then copied here.