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A step closer to online captions! The bill is introduced in...
Jared's Global Microbrand Last Friday on June 26th, Congressman Edward Markey introduced the 21st Century Communications & Video Accessibility Act of 2009 to the Congress.  This is a significant step forward in a push for online captions on the Internet. This bill represents the effort of many people in to improve accessibility on the Internet. If you support this bill [...]
Mon, Jun 29 2009
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Presenting at DCARA vblog symposium this Saturday
Jared's Global Microbrand DCARA will be hosting a very special day this Saturday: Vblog Symposium during the day and a Wine & Cheese fund-raising event at night. There will be a dizzying array of exciting presentations by experienced Deaf vbloggers which can be seen on the second page of this PDF. I'm looking forward to bumping into them again and [...]
Wed, Jun 24 2009

Netflix CEO really doesn’t care about subtitles/captioning
Jared's Global Microbrand I'm sickened at Netflix CEO, Reed Hastings' attitude towards subtitles and captioning for their portfolio of  online movies that can be instantly watched.  He claims that it's too difficult and the technology isn't here which is the furthest thing from the truth.  I've been faithful Netflix customer for years and have submitted numerous r...
Tech Fri, May 29 2009

Amy Cohen Efron and Barbara DiGiovanni, you both have my...
Jared's Global Microbrand I typed up a comment which I felt deserved it's own post. This is in reference to the furor that has developed over Deaf Pundit's objection to a vlog by Bard DiGiovanni as well as Aidan's response to Deaf Pundit. —- I think everyone needs to remember all the great things that both Amy and Barbara [...]
Tue, May 26 2009

Jackie Chan and Deaflympics Taipei 2009
Jared's Global Microbrand Great seeing the world-famous Jackie Chan sign in this video for Deaflympics at Taipei 2009!
Culture Mon, Feb 23 2009

Will be videoblogging remotely at the inauguration
Jared's Global Microbrand BB -> blog & FB VID 00031.3GP I'm going to the Obama Inauguration and while there, will be using my blackberry to capture some video and uploading instantly to my blog and Facebook. Sent from my BlackBerry
Media Tech Mon, Jan 19 2009

Watching the Inauguration online
Jared's Global Microbrand While I'll be braving the frigid weather at the Washington Mall for Obama's presidential inauguration ceremony, many of you will be watching it in a warm room on the TV. But.... what if you aren't near a TV at the time? Here's a good list of websites to watch the inauguration live online: [link] As for subtitles or [...]
Media Language Tech Legal Sat, Jan 17 2009

SubPLY offering free captioning of YouTube video clips
Jared's Global Microbrand Thanks to Bionic Ear, I found out about PLYmedia, which offers professional subtitling/captioning tools and services for online web clips.  They recently launched SubPLY which offers a plugin for your video player so you can simply send the url of the video clip to SubPLY human translators who will take care of the subtitling work.  [...]
Media Language Tech Tue, Dec 30 2008

A movie with many parallels to the Deaf community
Jared's Global Microbrand I watched the movie “Fearless” (or “Huo Yuan Jia”) and couldn't help but see many parallels between the film and the history of the signing Deaf community in midst of a hearing society. The movie is loosely based upon a man called Huo Yuanjia who actually existed in late 1800s China. During his time in China, [...]
Media Language Art and Storytelling Culture Sun, Dec 14 2008

Three deaf guys and NAD kick some ADA booty in Washington...
Jared's Global Microbrand NAD along with three Redskins fans Shane Feldman, Brian Kelly, and Paul Singleton have successfully sued the FedEx Field where Redskins games are hosted. Because of them, the stadium will be more accessible to the deaf. The judgment in this lawsuit was long in coming (ongoing since 2006) but they ultimately prevailed! Hopefully, this will [...]
Media Legal Thu, Oct 02 2008

Better accessiblity at hotels: innovative iPhone service...
Jared's Global Microbrand The Malibu Beach Inn is offering a cutting-edge service, which I hope other hotels will follow suit. When you check in as a guest at the Malibu Beach Inn, they will loan you an iPhone that is loaded with a special wireless hotel service application called runtriz. Click on the image below to see what the [...]
Tech Culture Thu, Oct 02 2008

NTID applicants- How to quickly request a fraud alert online
Jared's Global Microbrand The word has gone out that there was a theft of a laptop containing the names, DOB, SSNs of 12,700 applicants to NTID and another 1,100 people at RIT. Notwithstanding the idiocy that allowed such data on a laptop in the first place, those who have applied to NTID (it doesn't matter if [...]
Higher Education Tech Culture Wed, Sep 03 2008

Cochlear implantees trapping themselves into obsoleteness?
Jared's Global Microbrand Cochlear implants, for all of its so-called technological marvel (I personally don't think it's all that it's cracked up to be), requires the patients to give in to the total destruction of their cochlear as the device is implanted inside their heads. Lately, there have been several blogs that have pointed to an alternative in the [...]
Tech Sun, Aug 31 2008

Google enables automatic voice-to-text technology inside...
Jared's Global Microbrand I see this as one of the evolutionary steps towards automatically created voice-to-text transcripts that will eventually offer great benefit for both Deaf people and search engines. Last month, Google Research included the voice-to-text capability on the “You Choose ‘08” page on the U.S. presidential race. On the “You Choose ‘08″ pa...
Language Tech Wed, Aug 13 2008

Your deafness is worth $99,946.00
Jared's Global Microbrand How much is your deafness worth? Is there an economic value placed upon the ability to hear? The following article may give a rough estimation... A car mechanic for the police department went deaf after working on sirens inside a garage. No idea why he didn't take protective measures while on the job [...]
Media Legal Mon, Jul 21 2008

It’s a small world: Visual graphic of interconnections...
Jared's Global Microbrand There is one line that you will hear often from the members (hearing or Deaf) of the Deaf community: “It's a small world!” I had many opportunities to expand the circle of people who I know when I was a student at NTID/RIT with thousands of other Deaf college students, visited friends at [...]
Wed, Jul 02 2008

One step closer to captioned video clips on the Internet!
Jared's Global Microbrand Thanks to efforts of National Association of the Deaf (NAD) and Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technology (COAT), Edward Markey's (D-MA) “21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2008″ (H.R. 6320) has been introduced. As the Internet evolves with the meteroic rise of video clips on the Internet, it often has been a slap i...
Thu, Jun 26 2008

Disqus- advanced text/video commenting system
Jared's Global Microbrand Starting with this post, I'm using the new blog commenting system from Disqus. Several reasons why I tossed out the WordPress comments in favor of Disqus comments: Offers both text and video comments. Video comments are hosted by Seesmic which has more clear and smooth video than Riffly. I can accept comments in either English [...]
Thu, May 15 2008

Jott- hearing people can send voice-to-text messages to...
Jared's Global Microbrand Jott is a voice recognition and message-sending system. After reading this review by Jason Kolb, I could immediately see additional benefit where Jott would make it easier for hearing people to dial a number and speak out a message that can be automatically transcribe into a text message that can be fired off [...]
Tue, May 13 2008

Tip for vbloggers: When is the best day or time to post?
Jared's Global Microbrand As the co-founder of DeafRead.com which aggregates over 600 Deaf vbloggers, I'm often asked, “When is the best day or time to post a vblog entry for the highest view count?” My answer was based upon a rough estimation from my observations over time of DeafRead views. I've noticed that Thursday afternoons tend [...]
Mon, May 05 2008