A couple of weeks ago, the Google Reader folks announced that I (or you, for that matter) could use Google Reader to subscribe to foreign-language feeds, automatically translated. I thought I'd like it; I've been using it for a while now, and I think it's going to change my life. Not humongously change my life. But it's going to change my life, kinda, and probably for the better. I'm subscribing to more foreign-language blogs. I'm getting windows into some different points of view. Some of these I'd already subscribed to. And when I was pretty sure they were talking about something I was interested in, then I'd go to the trouble to get them translated. But now it's easy to read all of them.
- bicycle lane photo is cute
- Chiu-Ki shows stuff she grows and now I can figure out where she's traveling even if her photos are ambiguous
- black cat pancakes from that same place that has tried evil, evil things involving Japanese cheese and panckaes
- a rant about copyright from Sweden, land of The Pirate Bay and the Pirate Party.
OK, it's pancake photos and a rant that's only a couple of degrees removed from the usual Slashdot nerdly hissyfits. Calling these things "life-changing" is overblown, granted. But this feels like something that could grow over the next few years.
(You remember those disclaimers about how my opinions are mine, and not necessarily anyone else's? Those disclaimers still apply.)
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