My First Captioned Video on YouTube!
Daniel Greene YouTube Annotations Originally uploaded by Daniel Greene When I signed on to YouTube this morning, I noticed a new feature called Annotations that allows you to add Speech Bubbles, Notes, and Spotlights to your videos. I realized right away that the first two of these types of annotations gave me a way to caption my videos. They [...]
Language Tech Tue, Jul 01 2008 hide this blog

10-digit Phone Numbers from Relay Providers
Bionic Ear The FCC rules [pdf file] that all relay providers must offer 10-digit phone numbers to their customers. “What the Commission proposes is a complex but doable plan that, at its center, requires participants to build a big central database of...
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The People I Meet - Valerie
Laurie's Dance with Sound Last Saturday I had an opportunity to meet a new CI blogging friend, Valerie! She has a blog at Tales from a CI Gal so go visit her! She and her daughter, Jenna, were in Gatlinburg last weekend for a dance competition. I love meeting new people, especially those that I've met through blogging and the Internet. I had a beautiful drive through the Smoky Mountains on...
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How successful is cochlear implant?
Filipino Deaf from the Eyes of a Hearing Pers My last post made me think deeper. Are cochlear implants proven to have a high success rate? The reason why I'm having serious doubts is when I was putting sub-titles on the video, I'm having a hard time listening to the speeches made by those two kids who have undergone the implant. So instead of deciphering what he is saying, I simply put [inaudible speech].
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Milwaukee WITI FOX-TV Station Apparently Violated Federal...
RLMDEAF Milwaukee WITI FOX-TV station apparently violated the existing federal law for NOT providing equal time to Deaf Bilingual Coalition (DBC) last weekend to offer the opposing viewpoints on controversial issues regarding the options for language acquisitions among deaf babies and youngsters with cochlear implant (CI).The Fairness Doctrine law created by the U.S. Congress...
Media Legal Language Culture Education Tech Tue, Jul 01 2008 hide this blog

Mother Fights System to Get Help For Deaf Son
An American Mom in Tuscany: Jordan's Cochlear Mother Fights System to Get Help For Deaf SonBy Brian WalzelEditor Published in the Tomball Magnolia TRIBUNEThe hours after a baby is born are supposed to be filled with happiness and elation, not shock and disbelief. Babies should be crying in their mother’s arms, not being run through a battery of tests. But that was recently the case for a local mother and her husb...
Tech Legal Tue, Jul 01 2008 hide this blog

Review: Krown Wireless VP Signaler
Illustrator: Blog-alloon You wonder how is my search on videophone signaler. Well, guess what? My search is over. I found an excellent videophone signaler that actual wireless device. I found out about Krown Manufacturing, Inc's KA1000RR Remote Receiver and KA1000TR Telephone Ringer (transmitter). Its cost almost hundred bucks total on both device. At bright side, it's 5 bucks [.....
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…and so the genetics bandwagon looks like rolling into the...
TigerDeafie Genetics ‘stuff’ might have died somewhat with the virtual unopposed passage of Clause 14/4/9 of the HFE Bill in UK Parliament and burn out on the part of those of us who have spent so much time and emotional energy trying to bring to public awareness the consequences of Bill. But it looks like rearing [...]
Audism Tech Legal Culture Mon, Jun 30 2008 hide this blog

Cell Phone Scams
Grant Laird Jr. ASL Video - Approx 3:39 Minutes Long Not too long ago, Grant discovered hidden premium fee on T-Mobile (Sidekick II) thru monthly statement online. Same thing goes with his Sprint Treo 755p, unfortunately. Grant probably lost few hundred dollars because he’s not paying attention to statement carefully. He looked up Google and discovered that he’s not alone. [...]
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On Cochlear Implants and 3rd World Country
Filipino Deaf from the Eyes of a Hearing Pers Here is a 5-minute video documentary of a very popular TV program in our country that tells a story of a family trying to see if their child can undergo cochlear implant. Hosted by Ms. Sandra Aguinaldo, I-witness is a docu-research shown in GMA-7 last June 2008. The entire program is 30 minutes long so I edited it and shown only the parts related to CI. The language s...
Tech Culture Mon, Jun 30 2008 hide this blog

DBC: Confusing Messages
Mishka Zena Deaf Bilingualism Coalition began as a humble group with John Egbert and a handful of Deaf Leaders last July to discuss about promotion of ASL. The idea was sparked by Amy Cohen Efron's Greatest Irony where hearing babies are encouraged to learn sign language to communicate while their vocal cords are immature, but deaf babies [...]
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Aids, gadgets and technology, OH WOW!
SayWhatClub Weblog When u look at all the technology out there from the beginning of their creation to its current status, u'll note that most technology started out large and clutsy looking and eventually the product was reduced in size BUT improved in its functioning purposes .  For example, Look at computers, headphones, cellphones, xerox machines, fax machines, TTY's, [....
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Why we need to be “on the same page”
Dr. DonG.'s Deafhood Discourses Now that the DBC conference is over, this vlog by Jack Barr (FDR and Obama) illustrates why it is important for all of us to “be on the same page” when we have the opportunity to inform and educate others about what Deaf people want and need.   Play Quicktime version
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DBC and AGB positions on ASL and CIs
The ASL-Cochlear Implant Community Please check this link out about AGB and DBC's position on ASL and cochlear implants. [link] Karla Gunn said it best- children with CIs can still learn ASL. However I was a little concerned when I read Ella Mae Lentz's remarks about CIs and repeating outdated information that only a small percentage of deaf children benefit from CIs. It seemed as
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New Owner Sorenson VP's Garage
Billy Clark Studios Grand Open New Owner any cars or trucks can install Sorenson VP TV with everything system for sell $ 599.99 plus tax then see show Tks. : )
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To close caption or not to close caption, who will rule?
A Radical Sabbatical New legislation is being put on the table which will require closed captioning on some internet videos.  Reading various sites, I see that many technology people are against closed captioning on the internet.  They feel the government will now get their hands on regulating and setting fines for videos not captioned.  At first, I was very [...]
Tech Legal Sat, Jun 28 2008 hide this blog

Boys And Music Of Summer
Life In a Cone of Silence My love of music was contagious enough to be caught by my Dan, my son, many years ago. The car was the classroom of musical history in the formative years, as we crossed roads and highways of musical eras and genre. Likes and dislikes were determined and discussed. Preferences of mine were offered up as choices to fit in Dan's newly explored world. I had and have a v...
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Sylmar!
SURROUND SOUND Several months ago, when we started getting serious about our plans to go to Reno, I mentioned to my friend Gloria Garner, who is a Web education specialist at Advanced Bionics, that while I was out west, I would love to travel just a little FURTHER west and visit the Advanced Bionics production facility in Sylmar, California. I knew that the plant did tours and basic...
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Hellllooooo California!
SURROUND SOUND So....I got checked out of the hotel, which was an ordeal, because I had packed one of my bags incorrectly and couldn't carry it but was running behind and couldn't redo it. Finally straggled out to the curb and had missed the shuttle by five minutes, and the next one wasn't due for another 20 m9inutes. Rather than wait with all my bags I decided to just pay for a tax...
Tech Fri, Jun 27 2008 hide this blog

Accessibility on the Internet
Going Deaf Hello all. Today marks the last day that chairman Bill Gates sits in the hot seat at Microsoft. Lots of journalists, enthusiasts, and writers have done extensive montages dedicated to BillyG, so I won't bore you with it all. So today being the day, I figured [link] would get in on the action as well. They have, and right up on the first screen is ...
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Obama & Captioning for the Deaf Update
Don's Blog As some of you may know, I’ve been in contact with the Obama administration regarding captioning all of their video media on their website. I got a response from them: Dear Friend, Thank you for contacting us about closed captioning of video on our website.  We appreciate your message, and work hard to make our website accessible. To [...]
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Obama and Captioning
Don's Blog I noticed that most of the media on Barack Obama's website was not captioned. They did have a webpage that contained links to several captioned videos, but that's it: the rest of the website wasn't captioned with the exception of the disabilities issue page. So... I sent a message to the Obama administration: “There's a problem [...]
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Gearing Up
Deaf Bilingual Coalition Here in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, gearing up for this weekend's Battle of the Conferences, a drama is playing out on...
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A Captioning Bill That Has Got To Pass
Jamie Berke (About.com) Multiple bloggers are reporting on the introduction of a bill that will make internet video captioning (with some exceptions) required just as it is on regular television. About time, too....
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H.R. 6320 - Subtitles in Internet Videos
gwallgofi There's a new legislation that have been introduced in USA which was introduced by Edward Markey and is called the (D-MA) “21st Century COmmunications and Video Accessibility Act of 2008″ H.R. 6320: To ensure that individuals with disabilities have access to emerging Internet Protocol-based communication and video programming technologies in the 21st...
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