Hiya

I've just joined this group, following a link from Marc Canter's
blog. Thanks Marc. I am so pleased that this group is in existence.

I live in the UK, and I'm no techie, just an end user who is really
interested in how the net can be utilised better. Specifically on
video blogging, this is just the thing that I've been looking for in
relation to Deaf people.

Blogging is a great tool, but it relies on written English / other
written languages, which can make it inaccessible for Deaf people.
For some time, I've wanted to see video blogging ... whereby the
entries are simply videos, which inevitably are signed by the Deaf
person. This would be a huge advancement in terms of Deaf people
collectively having a voice plus empowerment. Traditionally they've
been at the mercy of organisations, which = paternalistic. I like
the idea how blogs can be individual yet collective / interelated,
and an great opportunity to record grass root opinion.

I am aware this would take up an enormous amount of bandwidth, plus
server space .. so I question how realistic this dream is.

Deaf people are starting to use web chat rooms such as camfrog.com
but this is obviously a chat room, and blogs are a different animal.

Ideally, I would like to see blogging software such as MT, Blogger
etc, create video blogs and its not just uploaded files to a
standard blog. If that makes any sense?

So that's why I'm here.

Alison