The blogger Shel Israel recently interviewed a Nicole Simon from an emerging newsletter site about social media.

The interviewee is insistent that "as long as there isn't one big Babelfish, we will have to agree on one language," then repeatedly professes her ignorance about what is going on in social media markets outside of Germany and the U.S. Yet, somehow, she seems to expect her site will be able to comprehensively report on the news of social media in the world. She believes that by imposing one language upon the world, she will succeed at knocking down all of the silos that exist from language barriers. Good luck with that, I say.