7th January 2007

Deaf B/Vlogging Conference

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It’s about time to have a conference on deaf blogs and vlogs.

The theme is ‘Vlogging/Blogging the Future of Gallaudet’

I think this will be the official website for the conference to be held on February 3, 2007 at Gally:

Coalition for Critical Inquiry

I hope it will be an annual conference and I hope sometimes RIT/NTID will be considered as a suitable location.

(Information came my way via Kokonut Pundits for pointing out the announcement)

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  1. 1 On January 7th, 2007, Andrea said:

    This is not meant to be a generic deaf blogging conference. As I understand it, it’s meant to be a conference ON THE FUTURE OF GALLAUDET, though with an emphasis on the role blogging/vlogging has played in shaping the dialogue about that future. Kokonut Plundits has posted a letter from Jill Bradbury clarifying the intent of the conference: http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2007/01/gallaudets-first-bvlogging-conference.html.

    I have also posted the same clarification, with some additional comments from me, at my own blog at http://reunifygally.wordpress.com/2007/01/07/lets-cut-jill-bradbury-some-slack/

    I do hope that there will eventually be a more generic conference on deaf blogging and vlogging in general. And when there is, then yes, I, too, would like to see it held in a different location each year; Gallaudet, NTID/RIT, other cities/states (San Francisco? Houston? London? Paris? Melbourne? Madrid? Johannesburg? Beijing? Nairobi?).

    But this particular conference is meant to focus on the future OF GALLAUDET. So I think its entirely appropriate for it to remain there, if it is indeed repeated. I’m not sure that it will be: from what I gather (and I hope I’m not inadvertently contributing to the misunderstandings already widely circulating about this conference), it is set up in direct reaction to the recent protests and is meant to stimulate civil, respectful, objective dialogue on the protests, including focus on the role of blogging/vlogging in those protests.

  2. 2 On January 7th, 2007, jsg said:

    Precisely why I put in bold the theme of the conference. But thanks for double clarification.

  3. 3 On January 18th, 2007, Fundraiser said:

    A few questions from a blog idiot

    How do you keep the spammers from eating you alive? i’ve seen blogs with nothing but spam postings.

    How do you keep some left wing extremist from posting racist or defamatory rhetoric? and if you cant stop them, what are you legally liabel when they do?

    can viruses be posted to blogs?

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