[finders] Japanese Lemurs

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February 23, 2006: Japanese Lemurs

http://www.findability.org/archives/000101.php

Noriyo Asano has a difficult job. She's translating Ambient Findability into
Japanese, a task made particularly tricky by the way I play with the English
language. Here are some of the phrases Noriyo has questioned:

    Technology has entered the shadow lands of Lost and Found, and we ain't
seen nothin' yet.

    One man's paradise is another man's oblivion.

    I'll bet it's easy and fun, in a disturbing sort of way, like shooting
fish in a barrel.

    Documents enable us to stand on the shoulders of giants. Information is
heady stuff indeed.

Translation is inevitably a lossy process, but hopefully by collaborating we
can do better than Google's automagic translation of Noriyo's blog. You've
gotta love the Rosenfeld Media post!

Anyway, I'll soon find out what got lost in translation, because thanks to
Toshikazu Shinohara of Sociomedia, I'm headed to Tokyo in April for the 2006
Design IT conference and the Spring of the Japanese lemur.