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2010

March

Machine Translation (New York Times)

January

About Mori Ōgai on translation

Help Haiti

2009

October

ebooks and the author

September

Channelling Jonathan Swift, or, Never Throw Anything Away

Biking the Yamanote Line

Seven Pounds (with Will Smith)

Marketing fiction on the Internet

August

Learning to submit

July

A Year as a Publisher’s Reader

Suzanne Kamata interviewed in The Telegraph

First Time Out

“Say Everything”: The First Bloggers

June

Beware of the Piranhas

Google’s CAT tool is out of the bag

May

Drifting down the Amazon

In under 140 characters…

April

Spelling, punctuation, grammar - do they matter?

Author School Visits

More thoughts on self-publishing

March

Is this the future of fiction publishing?

Two new ways of working

February

Authors Guild Settlement with Google

Mark Stevenson on the Pros and Cons of In-house Translation

24-inch monitor with pivot function from Iiyama!

Introducing JetWit.com

January

2009 Batchelder Award to Cathy Hirano’s Translation of Moribito

Forward, O Peasant (book review and more)

SWET Group on Facebook

Happy New Year (and let’s hope my daruma can see properly this year)

2008

December

On the Media’s podcast on Kisha Clubs

Review: Improving Translation Quality

You can’t polish rubbish

Giving Books

Review: How to Succeed As a Freelance Translator

November

Get a sneak peek of Wordfast 6.0

October

Speaking of Translation Podcast

Translation Blog

September

MultiLingual Celebrates 100th issue

Getting a book listed on Amazon Japan

August

Google to offer services for translators?

Japan Image Use Meetings

Picture Book Exhibitions

July

Ask Haruki Murakami Questions for Time Blog

A little dose of Olifant can save your life

Cross-Cultural Connections through Wakame

Live from Toyako

Hitotoki: A Narrative Map of Tokyo or ...

June

Some Thoughts on (Not) Self-Publishing

Take Your Tools With You With PortableApps

Yet more editing in restaurants

iPhones and Japan

Learn Urawaza Skills, Win a Prize from Lifehacker

A picture’s worth…

Murakami Haruki on translation, writing

Meet Felix, a clever new CAT tool made by GITS

May

A Golden Age for Young-Adult Books

Guerrilla editing on the road

Facebook gets translated, saves a ton of money

One, two, three . . .

Intro and Mini-NaNo

Corinne McKay on translating in OmegaT

The translation problem solved again

Learn the language, stay a while longer

SWET Weblog Starts Today

April

Please allow me . . .

Junot Diaz wins Pulitzer for “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”

The mechanics of writing

February

And Your Point Was?

2007

September

Book Review on Site

June

Translating Fiction: Backstory

March

Newsletter Style Sheet on Site

January

New Technology and the J-E Translator (2)

2006

December

SWET Kansai ‘06 Bonenkai Photos

October

Chicago Manual of Style Online

September

SWET Kansai Sake Brewery Tour Photos

August

New Technology and the J-E Translator

SWET Opens Photo Gallery

January

Introducing SWET Forums

2005

August

Aspects of Professional Editing and Proofreading: Setting Rates

2004

November

Linking Translators and Scholars: The impact of the J-E translation field on foreign Japan Studies

October

Weblogs

January

Google Pocket Guide

2002

October

IrisPen II Executive Asian (handheld scanner and software)

Check with Beckwith

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