literacy

Wikipedia Wars: Language Log Takes on Times Higher, Again, and Wins!

Submitted by Dominik Lukes on Sat, 22/03/2008 - 10:09.

The US-based Language Log takes issue with the following remark in a column in Times Higher disparaging Wikipedia:

XO Laptop 'buy one, donate one' initiative launched in the US

Submitted by Dominik Lukes on Mon, 12/11/2007 - 19:10.

However well or ill-advised the One-Laptop-Per-Child movement is from a development and literacy perspective, this charitable approach can both raise awareness of the disparities in the online world and spread some cool looking laptops around the community. If it wasn't available just in the US, I'd buy one!