CSDR & Few Tidbits
RidorLIVE What About CSDR?  When I get to visit the campus, I thought this campus has a lot of potential.  You can see the potential and passion in the staff, alumni and students at Riverside. I do not know if the hiring of Mal Grossinger as the interim Superintendent at California School for the Deaf - Riverside [...]
Sat, Jul 15 2006

Vote for Greg Gunderson
Mike McConnell It's very competitve out there folks. Yesterday, Greg was ranked at #18 yesterday after the votes were tallied from July 8 to 14. And now, today, dropped to #20 in one day! This shows clearly on how just competitive this voting efforts are and that voting isn't a weekend thing. It's everyday. Make it habit to vote in the morning [...]
Sat, Jul 15 2006

A Bit About Being Deaf...
Karen I'm always asked, "What is it like to be deaf?" I wrote this Epinion to introduce a bit about my life with hearing loss: http://www.epinions.com/content_4738687108.There are five generations of hearing loss in my family. My great-grandfather, my grandmother, my mom and all four of her siblings and all of my siblings, plus my kids and one niece [...]
Fri, Jul 14 2006

RidorLIVE crash
Tayler Mayer Yesterday Ricky Taylor of RidorLIVE posted a heavy hitting entry blasting the well-known deaf publisher, Matthew Scott Moore. Ricky shared with me that directly after posting it, RidorLIVE saw a surge of 3,000 page visits in matter of hours. As I type this, RidorLIVE is not loading. Could it be all the visitors repeatedly checking the [...]
Fri, Jul 14 2006

Response! - Matthew Scott Moore
Mike McConnell It’s a sad, sad day to see that many in the Deaf people community would succumb to the demagoguery or rabble-rousing from a few Deaf people without giving thought that such actions could damage the image of the Deaf community. Or at[...]
Fri, Jul 14 2006

6,000 hits on DeafRead.com's first day!
Jared Evans Tayler and I were pretty astonished that the traffic for DeafRead.com on the first day alone reached almost 6,000 hits! This far exceeded our expectations when you consider the fact that we haven't aggressively marketed the website. We simply posted... [...]
Fri, Jul 14 2006

An engineer's speech endures
Ryan Croke [...]
Fri, Jul 14 2006

Moore's House of Dungeon
RidorLIVE According to Matthew S. Moore’s website, Linda Levitan is the Editor-In-Chief and Copy Editor of DEAFLife Magazine. She also “co-authored” with Matthew S. Moore on a book, “For Hearing People Only”. Not only that, Matthew S. Moore was the Publisher of DEAFLife Magazine as well as owned several websites which he claimed to [...]
Thu, Jul 13 2006

Official Blog of sComm
Mike McConnell Greg Gunderson fans! Go and visit sComm's newest blogsite where you can see the latest picture action of Greg Gunderson fans voting efforts to help him get on the newest tv network reality show called "Racin for a Livin." On that blogsite sComm, Inc has officially announced that they are the official sponsor of Greg Gunderson.For it's first voting party [...]
Thu, Jul 13 2006

Your Blog RSS link
Jared Evans When you are asked for your blog's RSS, you need to know where to find it on your blog. It's a special file that is easily understood by computers, and it's not designed for people to read directly.Here are a... [...]
Thu, Jul 13 2006

An Interview With Bobbie Beth Scoggins
RidorLIVE Oh, my, how times changed in 12 years. In 1993, Bobbie Beth Scoggins spearheaded the efforts to initiate the nationwide protest against the film, Calendar Girl, for hiring a hearing man to impersonate as a deaf individual. The film starred Jason Priestley and Jerry O’Connell and was produced by Penny Marshall. I was one [...]
Thu, Jul 13 2006

DeafRead Is Up And Running
RidorLIVE Tayler Mayer of TaylerInfoMedia has unveiled a new website, DeafRead.com, to run the filtered feed aggregator of Deaf blogs. This is designed to showcase the best of the deaf blogs for anyone to read. For the first time in eons, we have a system of some sorts to ensure that the quality of Deaf [...]
Thu, Jul 13 2006

Deaf Privilege?
Random Thoughts and Musings I went to a divorce party tonight to celebrate the end of a marriage. It was a novel experience for me, and it got me to thinking. Y'see, I was the only guest who had grown up with signs. Every one of the other nine women present did not know sign until adulthood. One of them still does not sign. [...]
Thu, Jul 13 2006

Simplify your blog reading with Deafread.com!
Jared Evans Introducing Deafread.com! When the 2006 NAD Conference was over, Tayler Mayer and I were talking about the visible impact that blogging had on Deaf people by making it easy for motivated persons to publish valuable information to a large audience.... [...]
Thu, Jul 13 2006

UC Stands for Unnecessary Compensation
Mr. Sandman The cost of living (and inflation) goes up in many aspects of our lives: food, transportation, goods, services. Some of it is unavoidable, while in other areas, it's herd mentality-- x company raises prices, others eventually follow. You see this a lot with the airlines. United raises fares, no one complains, Delta, Northwest, American jump on board. At that point, [...]
Thu, Jul 13 2006

7 Consumer comments on numbering interconnection and...
Ryan Croke [...]
Thu, Jul 13 2006

July 16th at San Onofre - Old Man's Beach
San Diego Deaf Surfers Go to Video Google (ASL VLOG) Posted blog on July 1stDirectionsTo find Old Man's and Trails, exit 5 FWY at Basilone Road and head south. The entrance to the San Onofre State Surfing Beach (Old Man's) is a turnout on the right before reaching the Power Plant. Continue south past the Power [...]
Thu, Jul 13 2006

How common are circumstances like these?
Ryan Croke [...]
Thu, Jul 13 2006

Hello!
Karen Welcome to my little spot on cyberspace! I'm Karen, and I'm married to Joe and we have three kids who are deaf and hard of hearing. Joe and I are deaf. David, Lauren and Steven are the light of my life. Oh yeah, the hubby too. I work in early intervention as a Deaf Mentor, helping families with [...]
Tue, Jul 11 2006

Doorbell Signaler for Deaf?
gnarlydorkette [...]
Mon, Jul 10 2006

Poll - Accept Dr. Jane K. Fernandes?
Mike McConnell Do you still support Gallaudet University's Board of Trustees on selecting Dr. Jane K Fernandes to be the 9th president?YesNoDon't Know YetNot interested Free polls from Pollhost.com [...]
Mon, Jul 10 2006

Spotlight on DeafHope
Mosdeux DeafHope is a nonprofit organization, established for and by Deaf women in January 2003. Their mission at DeafHope is to end domestic violence and sexual assault against Deaf women and children through empowerment, education and services. When we founded Mösdeux, DeafHope heard about us and asked if we could do an educational film on Domestic Violence. [...]
Mon, Jul 10 2006

White-Impaired
Mr. Sandman Today we went to a birthday party for a friend. While the temps weren't great (the Valley in summertime feels like the Central Valley, and not what one normally thinks of L.A. summertime temps as being), the hostess was gracious, the food was terrific, and the company was outstanding. In the midst of making new friends, the conversation shifted several [...]
Mon, Jul 10 2006

NAD (National Association of the Deaf)
Patty Hi again.. sorry for taking so long to log in and Rant! Month of June has been pretty busy and crazy as well. Lee and I went to Idaho for rafting trip with friends and I am still waiting for the pictures so you will have to wait for it later.I wanted to talk more about NAD, National Association [...]
Mon, Jul 10 2006

My experience about NAD
Jon Savage Go to Video Google (ASL VLOG) Hello,I would like to share with my experiences about National Association of the Deaf. Let's start from a long time ago, I learned a little bit about Jr. NAD during my high school years. When I was senior, I was chosen to be the president. It was my [...]
Sat, Jul 08 2006