By joneilortiz on May 4, 2009
A Los Angeles Times article on “Why text messages are limited to 160 characters” reveals an interesting connection between old and new media: Friedhelm Hillebrand, the man more or less responsible for this figure, consulted postcards in his search for an ideal length for short messages.
Initially, Hillebrand’s team could fit only 128 characters into that space, [...]
Posted in New Media, Noted | Tagged language, mobile device, social media |
By joneilortiz on December 15, 2008
Prompted by a recent PC and Pixel cartoon, Mark Liberman over at Language Log gives a quick overview of the state of ‘linguistic profiling’ technology. (”As you can see, the best of the systems are doing pretty well at recognizing languages, but not so well at distinguishing one dialect from another.”)
What’s especially interesting about the [...]
Posted in Literature | Tagged language, Politics |
Documents & Studies
Recent Comments