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Yes / No / Maybe

This concept caught my eyes when I was browsing through a web 2.0 zine, called Webware (part of CNET setup).
From the Deaf perspective, I felt this would be a really useful event organising tool where hearing people are expected to be in attendance i.e. for work, having your own business, ringing around for a quote, [...]

[ More ] July 27th, 2007 | Comments Off | Posted in Deaf |

Experimenting with my photos

 I am still playing about with Wordpress and how I can piece things together. Crikey! Web 2.0 got massive potential……anyway, photos above are from my Google Photos webspace (when we renovated our new house – all our tradesmen are Deaf except for the plumber but he can sign as his daughter goes to Royal School [...]

[ More ] July 24th, 2007 | 2 Comments | Posted in Personal |

The Not Working Men Club

I had a bit of a bother today on See Hear’s forum. I have caught myself in a childish tit-for-tat battle with Andy Arthur, aka CornishAndy. I even called him CornyPunk – gawd, that is how low I have stooped.
The real bone of contention is kicked off with my request for sources to be cited. [...]

[ More ] July 11th, 2007 | 4 Comments | Posted in Deaf |

Follow up to my suggestion to See Hear

To further emphasise my suggestion, here’s an extract from a statement, written by Malcolm Wright – MD of Signpost (ITV – Tyne Tees), to Ofcom during their Access Services review 2006.

Digital switchover – the need for better informationOfcom’s current research finds that:

people with hearing and / or visual impairments watch rather more television than the [...]

[ More ] May 31st, 2007 | Comments Off | Posted in Deaf |

See Hear – my suggestion

In the light of the recent furore about BBC’s See Hear being knocked off the Saturday scheduling, into the middle of the week and downscaled to 30 mins instead of the usual 40 mins.  Terry Riley, the editor of the programme, outlined the BBC and See Hear visions in response to the  tide of discontentment among the Deaf [...]

[ More ] May 31st, 2007 | Comments Off | Posted in Deaf |

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