Waxy.org: The citizen team translating the Economist into Chinese
March 3rd, 2009Posted by Judith Townend in Citizen journalism, Editors' pick, Magazines
If you haven’t spotted this already it’s definitely worth a read: Andy Baio looks at a very unusual online collaboration project.
A group of fans are translating each weekly issue of the Economist magazine into Chinese and distributing it via PDFs to a Chinese audience. They call themselves ‘The Eco Team’. Full story at this link…
Ethan Zuckerman’s post is another look at what’s happening.
Tags: Andy Baio, chinese, Economist, Ethan Zuckerman, the Economist, translation, unusual online collaboration project
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