“In today’s mass societies, it only takes one percent of the people making a dedicated choice – contrary to the mainstream’s choice – to create a movement that can change the world.” Mark Penn, Microtrends. “A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead, Anthropologist Today, CNN wrote an […]
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Read More To All, In my previous blog entry, I wrote about my experience visiting CNN.com website today and saw the first captioned online video advertisement prominently displayed on the top right side of the homepage. That video advertisement was purchased by Capgemini. To read bit more about this, click here. Now, I am going to address the irony of this, and […]
Read More Whoa… I surfed the ‘net, and decided to visit CNN.com. I saw something. I thought my eyes were deceiving me that I was watching captioned online advertisement video. I had to refresh the page to make sure what I am seeing was the real thing. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/SLXZxjOF8mw" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] Yep. It is the real thing. This appears to […]
Read More It is just in… Google made an announcement today that they created technology called “machine-generated automatic captions” which makes captioning easy for online videos. Google partnered with PBS, National Geographic, University of California, Berkley; Stanford, MIT, Yale, UCLA, Duke, UCTV, Columbia, Demand Media, UNSW and YouTube channels. Hulu.com offered captions on some of the videos, and Google made a giant […]
Read More [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/Yoed-0SWgvQ" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] I cannot fathom this. It is so absurd! Unbelievable! I am peeved! Netflix did it AGAIN! GAWD!! This is OUTRAGEOUS! They did something really bad…. read on… Do you remember our beloved PBS show called Through Deaf Eyes that was shown in 2007? THROUGH DEAF EYES is a two-hour HDTV documentary that explores 200 […]
Read More Dear Netflix, I canceled my subscription with you after being a loyal customer for 5 years today. I picked the reasons why I canceled today online, but I do want to emphasize with you about the main reason why I left you today. You did not provide online streaming captions for the Wizard of Oz. We tried to tell you […]
Read More Dear Ms. Fisher of Public Relations for Netflix, I am writing this long email with my request: Thank you for making “The Wizard of Oz” available for viewing on October 3, 2009. I want to be included in this 70th anniversary celebration of “The Wizard of Oz” with my family, friends, and everyone else. To be included, I need closed […]
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Read More I wanted to share three video links that I learned from the Gallaudet’s Consumer, Family and Community Advocacy training led by Kevin Nolan, Jr. Kevin Nolan, Jr. is a dynamic instructor and he shared his passion working with Deaf people in China. He mentioned about working with these people and they created several Public Service Announcements. I was blown away, […]
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