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Deaf Blogs
Just wanted to comment on the fact how deaf-blogs.com has taken off, and how pleased I am about it.
Alison and I first thought up the concept of having a website with an aggregator of various deaf blogs internationally around September 2005, and here we are, four months on, with a fully-operational aggregator, thanks to Ben, Joe and Glen, within the space of about a week.
What I have found most encouraging is the fact that this has raised awareness of blogging and vlogging as an alternative to e-groups, and quite a few Deafies have been inspired to create their own blogs or have a go at vlogging. It’s great! I hope this means that Deaf bloggers will become commonplace on the world wide web, and that vlogging will be taken over by sign language users, because really, it should be our medium!
By the way, I’m using this post as a test for my new account with YouTube.
Vblogging
I’m a little cross with Joe. He’s given the impression that he made the first official Vlog (look here), which has led Beth to think his is the first one. Well, I’d like to inform the entire world, as of now, that ’tis was I who made the first official vlog, on 8 August 2004 (look here)!I rest my case.
Testing VideoPop
G has very kindly installed some nifty plugins for WP2 for me, and this is one of them, VideoPop. It now allows me to do this:
Please note that it will bring up a pop-up window, and a blank canvas. You should let it load awhile (which could take a few minutes if the video is more than 5MB in size), and a playbar should then appear, on which you should press Play.
Your feedback would be appreciated. Please note that this may have teething problems at first, but it will improve as time goes by.
Vlogging
All you BSL users will be pleased to see that I have been vlogging a bit more of late. I am finding the whole process rather easy to do, mainly as a result of my new webcam. However, I do need your feedback to improve either the format or the quality of the vlogs.
I would also particularly like to embed the vlogs into the blog itself so that you can press play after a few minutes, without having to actually download the Windows Media file itself.
Suggestions are welcome.