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  • Introduction to macrons in NZ web addresses

    Introduction to macrons in NZ web addresses

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    With the introduction of the 5 Māori macrons in .nz web addresses at the end of July this year, there has been little Domain Name registrar attention with most simply choosing not to advertise the fact that it is possible to register such names. There has also been little media attention to the fact that

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  • Google Racist auto suggestions

    Google Racist auto suggestions

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    More examples of Google auto text suggestions showing inappropriate and racist suggestions about Māori and Polynesians. Or perhpas this is unlucky SEO optimisation that makes some search suggestions look bad. Maybe if you are bored try insurance companies are etc, etc. and  

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  • Macrons in .nz domains

    Macrons in .nz domains

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    The ability to register macrons in .nz domain names started to become a reality today for current .nz domain name owners. It is a happy day for me as the original initiator for this to occur in New Zealand some three years ago. An one month sunrise period was launched today by the Domain Name

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  • Dealing with hate based – FaceBook groups

    Dealing with hate based – FaceBook groups

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    Some content may offend. Just today was made aware of a New Zealand based racist FaceBook group called “fuck i HATE dirty black MAORI’S” with a group description “this is a group that is devoted to the pure hatred of those dirty shitskined white girl bashing prison-monkeys otherwise known as Maoris”. Firstly it is sad

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  • Māori online content to be archived without permission or consultation

    Māori online content to be archived without permission or consultation

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    The National Library is archiving New Zealand web sites without your permission and with little or no consultation with Maori? The project is called New Zealand Web Harvest 2010. It is now seeking comments on past issues that have been raised by mainly the technical community. I see no Maori concerns or consideration. Web Harvest

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  • Google Aotearoa in Your Local Domain

    Google Aotearoa in Your Local Domain

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    The latest Google Doodle competition that recently announced the finalists provoked an old thought regarding the Google Aotearoa logo for the Visit Google’s Site in “Your Local Domain” page where Aotearoa is not shown in the listings. The Google Wiki tool for Google Aotearoa is also in English much to my surprise. But I am

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  • Google Translate Toolkit Translates into Māori language

    Google Translate Toolkit Translates into Māori language

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    Google announced today. It was made possible by Dr Te Taka Keegan of the University of Waikato while on secondment to Google. Google Translate Toolkit is a translation tool that is edited by humans not automated by computers such as Google Translate. Google Toolkit relies on the community to add words and translations. It then

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  • LinkedIn te reo Māori profiles

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    A number of months ago the professional networking site LinkedIn announced the ability to offer multilingual professional profiles via a set of existing languages and custom language options. The task is simple and can be used for any language in the world no matter how small the language population may be. Bilingual profiles in English

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  • Twitter in Te Reo Māori

    Twitter in Te Reo Māori

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    Twitter today announced that it would offer Twitter interface in multiple languages with other languages to be offered in the future. Currently Twitter is available in two languages English and Japanese. Twitter are calling for volunteers to assist with translating Twitter into French, Italian, German, and Spanish. The Twitter team have made it clear that

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  • 10 Suggestions to assist the process to have FaceBook Translated into Māori

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    For many years there have always been small groups of people fighting for what they believe is a natural right – to have software and online services presented in Māori. Most groups are short lived while others achieve results, often in a modest fashion. One-day translation issues and will not be an issue, it will

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  • Multilingual web site tips for SEO

    Multilingual web site tips for SEO

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    It is not uncommon for web sites to be bi or multilingual considering our international relationships and use of native languages on the Internet. But often there is little or no consideration for Search Engine Optimisation in the non English languages as they are not viewable upon reading the site. By following the above practice

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  • Indigenous domain name cybersquatted

    Indigenous domain name cybersquatted

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    For many Indigenous Peoples and any other organisation it is common to prepare to register your domain name only to find that someone has cyber squatted it or perhaps a member is using it for their own use. Too often groups are confined to thinking that if their name is not available in the .com,

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  • Advice for tr.im users

    Advice for tr.im users

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    Advise to organisations who are customers of the tr.im url services.

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  • Māori Language with IDNs

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    Issue 1: An immediate issue for Māori Language is the use of the umlaut (äëïöü). There are two issues here. (a) For many years the umlaut was implemented as an alternative for the macron and is widely accepted as a macron. It is quite likely that a user with Māori fonts will use an umlaut

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  • Haka on Twitter

    Haka on Twitter

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    Two days ago I wrote at my disbelief and sadness of the lack of innovation that was being used by Māori Language advocates. While no public comments appeared on my blog, my cell phone and email certainly were busy with people questioning me and seeking advise. Not to mention those people who reminded me that

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  • Māori macrons in domain names are now available

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    Recently and with minimal media attention in New Zealand and the Pacific, the ability to write non English characters into Web addresses became a reality for many of the worlds popular extensions such as .com, .org, .net, .tv and so on. Thus giving Māori the ability to correctly spell macron Māori words in web addresses,

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  • Dot Indigi Domain Name

    Dot Indigi Domain Name

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    .indigi is a new Internet domain name that will be the self governing Indigenous equivalent of the .com or .org . In late December 2008 i was appointed the Leader for this initiative which can be found at www.dotIndigi.com . While preparing our policy paper on .indigi i am often asked the same questions by

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  • Social Media overlooked for Māori language week

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    We are at the end of another Māori Language week here in Aotearoa New Zealand. Most of us have seen and heard Māori language being spoken in mainstream radio, television and newspaper. The children’s television program “Sponge Bob” was also in Māori language. But alas!, the uptake of social media to promote Māori language has

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