“The Internet” is being championed for the Nobel Peace Prize by the Italian version of Wired Magazine, according to the BBC and other reports. A record 237 individuals and organizations have been nominated for this year’s prize, which was controversially awarded to President Obama last year.

According to the BBC:

It is unclear who would accept the prize if the internet were to win.

Internet for Peace, set up to help support the nomination of the internet, says the prize would be “a Nobel for each and every one of us”.

Google Translate is helping to overcome language barriers online with its free online translation of texts, web pages and documents, and it’s progressed a long way since the early days of Babel Fish with its sometimes hilarious, nonsensical “roundtrip” translations. But the web is also facilitating language learning in a way that doesn’t require sitting in a classroom. As Eric A. Taub notes in a New York Times article, “The Web Way to Learn a Language“:
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