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Convo ad mentioned in online newspaper
Tayler Mayer Here is the link: Loud and Clear: Metro Station Ad Targeting Deaf is Big Hit. The vlog mentioned in the article is here. Express Night Out is a Washington D.C. local newspaper. The Deaf World is small, right? My daughter attends class with the author's nephew, who are both KODAs.
Fri, Mar 11 2011

Bernard Bragg’s Appeal to the Legislature
Tayler Mayer Governor Cuomo’s budget proposal threatens the existence of schools for the deaf in New York State. I appeal to every one of the decision-makers in the Legislature to resist this proposal. My name is Bernard Bragg. I graduated from the New York School for the Deaf, better known as “FANWOOD”, in 1947 – more than [...]
Thu, Mar 03 2011

Leah Katz-Hernandez writes in White House Blog
Tayler Mayer Leah Katz-Hernandez wrote for the White House Blog. This is such an accomplishment for a deaf blogger, to appear in one of the world's most important blogs. There is no stopping Leah Katz-Hernandez. She was profiled by her alma mater, Gallaudet University, volunteered as a vlogger for National Association of the Deaf (NAD), and teamed [...]
Tue, Mar 01 2011
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AGBell was an Oral Extremist
Tayler Mayer Alexander Graham Bell was an Oral Extremist. Mike McConnell is NOT a Oral Extremist. AGBell's position on Oral Education is actually the reason the plaque honoring him at NTID was removed. I wrote a Letter to the Editor and it was published in RIT's student publication, “Reporter“, on April 14, 2000. An excerpt: Bell strongly [...]
Sat, Feb 26 2011

The Raising of DeafRead
Tayler Mayer Recently Candy wrote a post re-accounting some of the events that took place around the time of DeafRead's birth. I would like to, for once and all, tell you how DeafRead came about. This is from the horse's mouth. I saw Jared Evans at the NAD conference in Palm Springs. At the time, he was [...]
Thu, Nov 18 2010
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World Deaf Cinema Festival at Gallaudet University
Tayler Mayer Gallaudet University is hosting its first film festival the weekend of November 4-7, 2010. The World Deaf Cinema Festival will feature Marlee Matlin and Producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr. For more information and videos, go to: wdcf.gallaudet.edu (I will be moderating a forum, “Deaf Images in Cinema” at the festival).
Thu, Oct 14 2010

ABC Family searching for deaf actress to star in new TV show
Tayler Mayer ABC Family is looking for an amazing young deaf actress to star in a new TV series (and two male deaf actors too)! The show revolves around Daphne, a smart, confident and well-adjusted deaf teenager who has her world turned upside down when she discovers that she was switched at birth with another girl. If [...]
Wed, Oct 06 2010

Leaving Open Subtitles Design Summit
Tayler Mayer Wrapping up the summit (on the subway). Transcript not available.
Fri, Oct 01 2010

Open Subtitles Design Summit in NYC
Tayler Mayer I am in Manhattan to represent NAD at a summit to discuss the future of subtitling and captioning. Transcript not available.
Wed, Sep 29 2010

Analyzing and Judging Information
Tayler Mayer About three weeks ago, discussing DeafRead, a top-level Gallaudet University administrator confessed to me his father had difficulty discerning information. The administrator said he tried to “teach” him how to, but his father just wasn't capable. I liken discerning information to “not believing everything you read” or being able to judge...
Mon, Sep 27 2010

To AFA: Who is the Harasser?
Tayler Mayer kc of AFA, I beg to differ. Patti is the one who has been harassing me, and the DeafRead team. Read this excerpt from the post dated Oct 23, 2009: “...Patti Durr e-mailed me on Thursday when I was in Washington D.C. then three days later, on Sunday, she announces her second boycott. I was [...]
Fri, Sep 24 2010

On a mission to reduce anonymous comments
Tayler Mayer I've been wanting and meaning to add something to this blog's comments section — to prevent or minimize anonymous comments. I can guarantee you there's a study out there showing that anonymous comments are way more likely to be pointless, snarky, or just downright destructive. I mean, if you cannot show yourself — why bother [...]
Thu, Sep 23 2010

To: AFA Re: “extremist” complaint
Tayler Mayer Hi kc of AFA. I call some Republicans extremists. Some negatively call our President a Muslim. When Ruthie stood up and fought for an Audism Free America, she made herself into a public figure and disagreements are sure to come. If this cannot be handled, then perhaps it's not for her. It's the same for [...]
Tue, Sep 21 2010

“Sad”
Tayler Mayer A friend told me her husband, after sub-teaching to deaf 4th graders, came to her and said only one word, “Sad”. The deaf 4th graders could hardly communicate. The husband sub-teacher was taken aback by what he saw in the classroom. This is the sad state of our education – deaf education. The friend, who [...]
Tue, Sep 07 2010

Hurwitz Interview available now
Tayler Mayer Two days I made a brief post letting you know I would be live interviewing Gallaudet President President Dr. Alan Hurwitz. The video is now available for your viewing.
Thu, Sep 02 2010

Hurwitz Live Interview Tomorrow
Tayler Mayer I will be live interviewing Dr. Alan Hurwitz at Gallaudet University at 10:00AM EST. The web address is ideafnews.com. Check their post about the live interview.
Mon, Aug 30 2010

AB2072 passed. Confused?
Tayler Mayer So was I at first glance. This is what the headlines should have read: “New AB2072 bill passed”. “New”. As in amended. Essentially, the bill was changed and the opponents of the original bill are happy with it. In fact, the “opponents” worked with Mia Orr on the amendments. Also as I understand it, it's [...]
Thu, Jun 24 2010

First FCC fraud defendant found guilty
Tayler Mayer This e-mail came from a source who read federal district court papers made available to the public. Permission granted to re-publish at y3. --- Ben Pena convicted by the jury on counts 1, 2, 3, 5, 6. Found not guilty on count 4. Verdict handed down at 2:45pm Eastern today. Trial ended at 3pm. The [...]
Wed, Jun 23 2010

New AT&T/iPhone Text Accessibility Plan (TAP)
Tayler Mayer This is from AT&T's National Center for Customers with Disabilities --- you for your inquiry regarding AT&T's new TAP plan that will go into effect 06/07/2010. Below you will find a list of the new plans that will be available. If you are currently on a TAP plan, no changes will be made to [...]
Fri, Jun 04 2010

Abuse of the term “audism” isn’t new, apparently
Tayler Mayer (Disclaimer: this has nothing to do with NAD's recent posting of their letter to dictionaries which encloses their definition of audism. I applaud their effort to take a stance. I will be examining its enforceability on DeafRead and DeafVIDEO.TV. *Eyes open*) I was checking to see if Google had indexed my post, “Audism was just a [...]
Fri, Apr 23 2010
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Neo-Eugenics and Our Future
Tayler Mayer While Patrick Boudreault's “neo-eugenics” term may be effective as an attempt to bring a profound perspective change, I do not compare oralism and cochlear implants to eugenics. My reason is found in the second root word of eugenics which is -genes. Neither oralism or cochlear implants involve genes. Cochlear implants surgeries are performed on and ...
Wed, Feb 24 2010

Hulu: Search for Videos Using Captions
Tayler Mayer I wrote on Oct. 6 that captions benefits everyone, because it provides access to reading. Now there's another immense benefit: Hulu.com has a new feature which allows searching by captions. What this means is if the title of a movie or show is forgotten, you can search for it by quotes you may remember in [...]
Mon, Dec 21 2009
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DeafRead ain’t dead, take two
Tayler Mayer I'm not repeating this to rub it in – a earlier post, “DeafRead is not and never was dead“, didn't appear to convince certain persons. How's this for additional proof? DeafRead Top Ten – November 26, 2009 This time it's a screenshot so the evidence is forever. Anyway, the meat of this post, as described in “DeafR...
Mon, Nov 30 2009

I reserve the right…
Tayler Mayer y3 is my personal blog, therefore I reserve the right to choose which comments are approved. Comments that are not relevant, off-topic, or off the point are not likely to be published. There are many issues to discuss in the deaf community, so it's incredibly easy for things to go off on a tangent. If you [...]
Thu, Nov 26 2009

FCC: No prison for 26 charged defendants?
Tayler Mayer I've been in middle of a cross-country move, and with Thanksgiving dinner being prepared, I've slowed down. Being busy, the headlines of the 26 people being arrested did not escape my attention. Of course it did not; it's probably the biggest news in the deaf community since the Gallaudet protests of 2006. It certainly ranks [...]
Wed, Nov 25 2009

Impact of Online Videos on Two Cognitive Biases
Tayler Mayer This YouTube video was originally published on YouTube/DeafVIDEO.TV on September 29. I'm re-publishing it on my blog because the two cognitive biases are also affected by blogs, IMO. Watch the video and share your thoughts!
Wed, Oct 28 2009

Ella come back!
Tayler Mayer Ella, I strongly urge you to return to your post as CAD secretary. First, you walkout of DeafVIDEO.TV, and you're now abandoning your elected position at CAD. You were nominated and elected by people who believed in you. You've been a long-time CAD board member. I admire your passion for Deafhood Foundation, but what are [...]
Sun, Oct 25 2009

The First Jump
Tayler Mayer If you haven't yet, please first read Did I Lose or Win? to understand the title. My wife Debby just accepted a position at the NAD as an attorney. So we're moving east. She said to me it's such a big move. I replied that it wasn't as much of a big move as when we [...]
Fri, Oct 23 2009

Did I Lose or Win?
Tayler Mayer Last week at the Purple Trailblazers Gala, there were 1000+ people in audience, plus more watching via DeafNation's webcast. Sitting in the audience were national leaders, such as Nancy Bloch, Alan Hurwitz, Ron Stern, Roz Rosen, and I'll go as far as saying one of the trailblazers is a national leader: Dr. MJ Bienvenu. I [...]
Fri, Oct 23 2009
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Language as key
Tayler Mayer When my mother learned my older sister was deaf, she turned to a deaf distant cousin and asked what she should do to best educate her daughter. The deaf cousin, Michael Cashman, said “Look at me. I'm doing fine. What do I use?”. My mother answered, “ASL.” It was from his response that my parents [...]
Thu, Oct 22 2009

Use it or Lose it
Tayler Mayer YouTube has both a subscription service and block feature. Facebook allows you to choose who your friends are. Twitter can be either public or private. DeafRead has DeafRead Hide. Once you hide a blog, you do not see its posts as long as you are signed in. DeafVIDEO.TV has a block feature that prevents a person [...]
Wed, Oct 21 2009
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Audism was just a cover
Tayler Mayer A group of people tried to use the term “audism” to ban others from DeafVIDEO.TV and DeafRead. There were people who were vlogging about deafhood and cochlear implants. To the group's disgust, deafhood was not supported and cochlear implants were supported. The truth is it wasn't about audism at all. It was about censoring them. I'll [......
Wed, Oct 21 2009

Why am I doing this?
Tayler Mayer I'll start by telling you I didn't plan any of this. It all began with Patti's (second) boycott post. What I thought was a healthy dialogue that resulted in a good agreement–was broken by patti's impatience. I was being pushed. I was peeved. One thing led to another. I will have you know that I came [...]
Tue, Oct 20 2009

DeafRead is not and never was dead
Tayler Mayer I'm tired of being “professional”. I'm going to say it outright. DeafRead, no matter how low the numbers are, never dies. It is simply dormant, hibernating. DeafRead is the deaf community's pulse. Whenever a controversial issue gets on DeafRead, the numbers go up. The hotter it is, the higher the numbers fly. So when it appears [...]
Tue, Oct 20 2009
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I join with NAD and Scoggins…
Tayler Mayer Yesterday I wrote: “Hurwitz and the Board will bring everyone together while respecting their uniqueness.” Imagine my surprise when I read Scoggins' quote on NAD's post published a little later: “We at the NAD stand ready to be of support as he begins the Herculean task of bringing together the diverse communities within and outside [...]
Tue, Oct 20 2009
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To: Brian Riley
Tayler Mayer I read your letters. “Fear-mongering” immediately comes to mind. You blasted sim-com as a failed communication method. Allow me to play Devils' Advocate: If sim-com gets me two President positions, sign me up for it! Promote sim-com? Do you have any evidence that he promotes sim-com? Without presenting any, it appears as if you are trying [...]
Tue, Oct 20 2009
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Dear John Egbert
Tayler Mayer Hello John. I'm not publishing your comment because it is off-point, but thanks for leaving the comment. If you are frustrated with people serving their own self-interests, then stop reading them. If they don't have an audience, they will have no one to write for. And to hold me responsible for allowing “oppressors [to] dominate [...]
Tue, Oct 20 2009

From NTID to Gallaudet University
Tayler Mayer Hurwitz's selection is the second time a NTID president has come to lead Gallaudet University. One is directly succeeding another. But do not blame them. They worked hard. Over their long tenures, they have proven themselves. It matters not where they come from, but what they stand for. We saw that in Davila, being proud [...]
Tue, Oct 20 2009

Dear Patti … again Re: Hurwitz
Tayler Mayer You did not list one of the reasons people might protest to Hurwitz's selection. He's not deaf enough. Oh my gosh. There's been mutters of “deaf-centric president” demands. Oh my god. There's rumors swirling around that certain people from the Bay Area may stage a protest against the BoT for their selection. Oh my [...]
Mon, Oct 19 2009

Dear Patti
Tayler Mayer Sorry I would have written this earlier but my 8-month old daughter woke up from her nap. I didn't appreciate your post, Patti, because it made it look as if I either refused to keep my word or were not hurrying quickly enough. I take the former personally. The facts are that you and I videophoned on [...]
Mon, Oct 19 2009

Deaf Contestant on “The Price is Right”
Tayler Mayer Kristine Cantrell Hall, Valencia, California, was chosen as a contestant on the popular T.V. game show, “The Price Is Right.” Kristine is probably the first deaf contestant ever to make it all the way to share the stage with Drew Carey and the lovely models. Her appearance will be broadcast on Monday, October 19th on [...]
Wed, Oct 14 2009

Captions Enable and Enhance Education
Tayler Mayer Captions help all students learn. Amid Netflix being the 800-pound gorilla of the advocacy action on captioned online videos, we sometimes overlook a significant component of education: videos. Videos enhance education by visual means; showing objects, cultures and places beyond the home and classroom. What good does videos do if they are not captioned? Very little [....
Tue, Oct 06 2009

Gallaudet President and Provost using iPhones
Tayler Mayer A friend, Andy, a Gallaudet employee, snapped this photo with an iPhone of his own. Impressed with Dr. Robert Davila keeping up with the times! The guy in the forefront is Provost Dr. Stephen Weiner.
Sun, Aug 30 2009

Bernard Bragg’s Rendition of Michael Jackson’s song “We are...
Tayler Mayer Nearly 25 years ago Bernard Bragg translated this song into ASL for Dr. Ursula Bellugi and her group at Salk Institute's ASL Research Lab.  The year was 1985 and all of the singers with Michael Jackson recorded the song in unison and aired it all over the world. The song was written in support of [...]
Tue, Jul 07 2009
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Broken-windows theory: what kind of comment moderator are...
Tayler Mayer Bloggers, Over the years, I've become more involved with WordPress development. I recommend nearly all my clients to use WordPress, either it be a blog or a Content Management System (CMS). For example, WordPress can be easily re-configured to serve as a solid Membership system. More recently, I've dug deep into WordPress's Application Programming In...
Tue, Jun 23 2009
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Marlee Matlin gets her Walk of Fame star!
Tayler Mayer Congratulations, Marlee! This blog supports video comments, but you may also leave video comments at DeafVIDEO.TV
Wed, May 06 2009
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Peripheral vision of the online community
Tayler Mayer On a post by Mishka Zena, she tries to understand what makes some people consider cochlear implants as evil. I made a comment unrelated to cochlear implants. I don’t think the commenters that we see are representative of the deaf community. Passionate people are more motivated to comment–making moderates appear non-existent. Silent moderates make up the [...]
Fri, Apr 17 2009
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Alexander Graham Bell the name
Tayler Mayer First things first: AGBell = organization Dr. Bell = person I encourage AGBell to put it into writing that they no longer support the philosophy put forth by their founder. This is like kicking themselves in the nuts, but bear with me here. AGBell has a page, however small, about the option of using ASL to teach deaf [...]
Wed, Apr 15 2009
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Apple Patent: Video answering machine
Tayler Mayer “Apple”, “rumors” and “patents” are synonymous. Rumors about potential new products and features are so dominant and compelling that Apple didn't seem to hestiate when they ended their participation in the famous MacWorld conventions. Apple, armed with its top brand and repeat hot sellers, is fully confident consumers, with th...
Thu, Apr 09 2009
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Vlogs: integral part of deaf online community
Tayler Mayer This comic illustrates how quickly blogs have come (and, for some, gone) in today's age of technology where everything seems to change so quickly. Look at how smaller and faster our mobile phones are. Vlogs may have replaced blogs for some–but only for a brief time. While blogs is remaining more mainstream, vlogs may have [...]
Fri, Aug 22 2008