Comments on: Tech Czar Blog Network

By: colbert

colbert — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:34:09 +0000

I would prefer if this network had a widget on the sidebar. Having it at the top is a bit intrusive.

By: BobbyT

BobbyT — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:35:49 +0000

Matt, your reasons are fair enough. If the links and other stuff are retained, I guess the original author also stands to gain some benefits from translations, like more wide audience and reach. So I guess people should start using tech czar blog network if you people they are paying well enough, hehe

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:29:11 +0000

Liew, you may have stepped into cow ****.

Firstly, you shour NEVER agree to sign away ownership of your articles even if they are translated versions. Ownership of you articles belongs to you alone no matter what languge it is! That’s like the Harry Potter author saying I can keep the rights to the Malay version of her book!

Second, consider the amount of pages that they have to translate. There is NO way any human can translate so fast. You have how many articles? Say 2 thousand or more? Let’s assume only 10 blogs join their network per day. That’s already 20,000 articles a day! There is NO way humans can translate pages that fast on the fly. I think what they do is HAVE A HUMAN look through the machine translated pages.

Thirdly, you were right to worry about the navigation links. Their navigation bar completely overpowers yours. In fact, when I stopped by for a visit yesterday, I clicked on their links before yours. You are giving away your content AND your traffic!

However, LiewCF is you baby and you have full right to do what you want with it. No one can take that away from you.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:44:01 +0000

Hi-

I’m Matt. The general manager of Tech Czar. We’re really excited the have this blog as our newest partner, and I want to clarify a few points:

1) We only use human, professional translators who were born and raised in the language-specific country that they translate for. Translation is more of an art than a science, so there will always be differences of opinion about what word should be used, or how good a translation is.

2) We only own the translated versions of the content to the extent that we ask that it not be published in other locations. This is simply because human translation is very expensive, and we are covering the cost, so would like to be the exclusive beneficiary.

If you have any other questions about the blog partnership, our translators, or anything else regarding TechCzar.com, please feel free to email me at: mmogk@techczar.com

Thanks!

Matt

By: BobbyT

BobbyT — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:29:37 +0000

@AhTim: Maybe they use automated translation like Google Translation? Maybe they outsource to someone else also…

By: AhTim

AhTim — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:43:50 +0000

@BobbyT: Agreed with your view.

@LiewCF: Their translation in chinese is quite poor. Don’t know what kind of translation method they use?

By: BobbyT

BobbyT — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 06:25:49 +0000

I’m more concerned about them owning all the translated version, it’s like free stuff for them! How much do they pay people to join that network? Is it worth it, to completely lose copyright over your articles, I would suppose an idea would still retain its copyright no matter what language it is conveyed in…