Frankfurt Book Fair
October 15, 2008 by Jenna Brinning
The translators centre at the 60th Frankfurt Book Fair is located in hall 5.0. You can find an overview of translation as one of the fair’s key foci here, which includes lots of links to various associations, programmes and partners around the globe.
If you’re in or near Frankfurt am Main this week, the fair will be running until the 19th of October and you might want to stop by. A day pass for translators as trade visitors runs at 36 euros. Regular (non-trade) visitors may attend the fair on the 18th and 19th only.
Addendum: there is also an English blog on the FBF website. It’s obviously modest in scope considering the short duration of the book fair, but nicely written all the same.
New Book on Personal Publishing and the Public Sphere
October 14, 2008 by Jenna Brinning
By the wayside, I’m pleased to announce that my (German) book in the field of communication and media studies, Persönliches Publizieren im Web 2.0, has just been published by vwh – Fachverlag für Medientechnik und -wirtschaft, a small publishing house for academic literature in the area of media technology and media management. The book examines the relation between personal web publishing and the public sphere while also exploring the derogatory attitude towards personal publishing so prevalent in German media. You can find it on Amazon or order it directly (postage free) from my publisher, vwh-Verlag. The front matter and preface are also available for download here (in German), as is an English-language abstract.
Website Relaunch: Kudos to Rebwebdesign
October 6, 2008 by Jenna Brinning
The relaunch of modilingua.com had been on the back burner for an awful long time, but things finally fell into place last week. The entire German version of the website is online and once some larger client projects have been attended to, I’ll be porting the English content bit by bit.
I’d like to take the opportunity to thank Rebecca of Rebwebdesign for her help with the template design and work in the backend. Reb is a Wordpress specialist who’s adept in PHP, MySQL, CSS and XHTML, and I can recommend her services if you’re looking for a designer who is easy to communicate with, responsive to specific ideas and offers great prices.
I’m excited about the website’s new look and hope that our visitors find the navigational structure as clean and comfortable as we do.
