Purpose of Blog
Hello, this blog is all about issues that impact the deaf community, such as captioning, interpreting, cochlear implants, and education. This is mainly a deaf advocacy and awareness blog. Leave a comment if you want to become a blogger!
Thank you very much.
Deaf Pundit
Will you accept vloggers?
Amy Cohen Efron
I’m not sure how to set up a vlog on this site. But if it’s doable, then sure!
DP, great minds think in tandem. I visited the MoveOn.org web site just now, wondering how they got started, and wondering how difficult it would be for us to start one of our own. What Goliaths would you like to take on right now? Right now I’m on fire about the captioning issues.
Horray! That would be really neat! Tell me bit more how do I submit ‘advocacy’ vlog to you, and do you require reviewing this vlog before hosting me as a guest vlogger? Do you require text transcription with the vlog or burn-in subtitles? I am curious about your guidelines. Hope you can post them to invite vloggers/bloggers with certain guidelines to maintain the integrity of your blog.
Thanks,
Amy Cohen Efron
If you turn off the Rich Text editor in your user profile under WordPress admin, you’ll be able to simply copy n’ paste the Embed HTML code from youTube or Google Video to your blog.
Thanks Jared! That’s very helpful!
MoveOn.org got started by online petitions. Then they set up a website and people signed up to receive e-mail alerts about a particular issue, and what action they could take to help remedy the situation. 3.3 million members of MoveOn.org now, and most of them also donate money so MoveOn.org’s PAC can make an impact on the hill. So I’m hoping that with this blog, we can do something similar with that eventually. We need to start small at first.
I’ll work up some rough guidelines and post it tomorrow. What I do know is that the blogs MUST be related to an issue that has a far-reaching impact on the deaf community. It can be state-wide or a nation-wide issue, such as the captioning one.
I say let’s vote on which issue we want to focus on right now. There’s several issues that NAD’s working on, I believe. Two of them are the captioning issue, one is regarding the VP/Telephone issue, and the last one is the Air Travel issue.
Personally, I vote for the captioning issue. Thoughts?
I’d vote for the captioning issue over the VP/Telephone and the Air Travel because to me, the captioning issue is much more important in terms of accessibility because that’s where the future of entertainment is going to be.
Captioning issue, no doubt.
It’s 2007 already!!! CC EVERY DAMN THING NOW, DAMN IT!!!
DP and CE:
Glad that you know something about Move.Org of
which I have been a member since 2003! Members
are constant movers.
Back to square one, my cousin’s son who is a TV executive director for Paramount in Los Angeles
says that the best way to demand for captioning
would be to tell the media, and, in turn, the
media would consult producers of films. For
example, if a producer, say, Mel Gibson, could
get hot water for defaming Jewish people. How?
Moviegoers would have to boycott by refusing to
see all films the producer (Gibson) makes. Other producers do not want to lose their business like Gibson through the power of the media. Meaning?
Deaf people could notify the media that a producer
of a great film is discrimiantory by not captioning his film. Then the media would ruin the producer’s
name. FCC cannot control producers, but moviegoers
through the media can control producers. Also,
film critics play a large role in ruining a
producer’s business if not they do not do anything
to please moviegoers. In the summary, deaf people
should push the media and film critics. ABC Ness
has a new film critic named Arch Campbell. Producers
are afraid of him because he can say, “Two stars
for that film…. and four stars for THIS film.”
Okay. Let’s identify the areas in captioning that needs to be worked on.
What comes to my mind is:
*Television shows
*Internet videos made by the mass media (NBC, PBS, CNN, etc)
*Movies produced by Hollywood.
I have some ideas on how to take action regarding this, but I want to make sure we all are clear on the goals and areas in captioning that we need to deal with.
Any other areas in this issue that needs to be addressed?
Wow, deafpundit - it must be MY fault when you originally bought this up on your other blog.
Me swwoowwyy!
I’m also a member of MoveOn.org and I’ll jump on the bandwagon for the deaf community on issues I support.
I also want the issue added from online businesses, such as Netflix, Blockbuster Online (need more push on them) and others I might not be aware of.
This is a great idea!
Yes, I totally blame you IamMine.
Ok. I’ve updated the about page to have guidelines on the blogs/vlogs, and there’s a couple of new blog entries. Please leave your thoughts/comments/questions on these new entries!