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Imagine to slam my head down what life would be like without computer and Internet, this information is truly revolution and evolution. This video explores the changes in the way we find, store, create, critique, and share information - created by the same author, terrific Prof Michael Wesch of KSU made 'The Machine Is Using Us' (posted on 2/6/2007), and we couldn't live without technology to manage the information.
Welcome to Technology era!
Found via Grant Laird Jr. Blog <- Noesis <- Jared's Rambling Thoughts. Credit goes to Grant who found this video with subtitled first. Thought I MUST post this in my blog, to remind EVERYONE including my Deaf folks what RSS is all about.
If you or I have ever had trouble explaining why someone should get into RSS, or even if you’ve been on the fence about trying the technology, the folks at CommonCraft have released a great resource of video that explains RSS In Plain English; and DotNet have added the subtitled version on this video.
I find this three and half minutes video very informative with subtitled (yay!), to have web idiots, newbies and grandparents to understand. Looking for my big, bold RSS orange icon on right sidebar in my blog to subscribe.
Bloglines is in my blood, and terribly addictive, I couldn't live without this to subscribe from numerous of blog readers, including DeafRead, customize feed through Alexa's Top 20 web traffic rankings including Flickr, CNN and eBay (!).
I am kinda disappointed that few of my folks (such as non-web savvy) still don't get it [RSS], they still prefer to visit websites on their own time frequently, use email subscription or distribution lists in the old fashioned way.
If you want to kill your time right now, try to see how you are good to place all 50 states in the United States map?
Want to know what is my final result?
Wikipedia is free encyclopedia on the web, brings the standard encyclopedic knowledge. Wikipedia includes information more often associated with almanacs and gazetteers, as well as coverage of current events. The content of Wikipedia is created by thousand of users around the world. However, no single person owns the content; this article never been done forever.
I dug up deeply on Wikipedia and I really love this site. There are infinite amount of learning and education; when I enter the first word: Mario. Interesting, there is long article how Mario first got its name; how he appeared in the video game and lists of games Mario appeared.
As you want to ask the question on yourself; what is the happening events on year I born? Why there is Christmas? What is cat favorite food? How can I learn the rules of game play in Baseball? Why do I need to have education for my life? How does the name come from: Microsoft, Nintendo and Sega? All of those questions answered in Wikipedia. Here are fun facts:
Do you think mighty God created this?
I talked to my friend, Sam via AIM, and he asked me to share his words for the letter to video game industries and magazine & online publications. The letter is about some of the games does not have subtitles, the deaf gamers filed a compliant to require subtitles in all games.
As being a Deaf Gamer, Subtitles should be an Industry Standard for Videogames.While several of my deaf friends and I did have some fun with games such as Halo, Tony Hawk Underground, or The Simpsons: Hit and Run. The one of the biggest thing what really disappoints us, is the lack of subtitles. We hardly understand what the captain is saying in Halo or what the characters are saying in The Simpsons: Hit and Run or Tony Hawk Underground. We can assume that the captain is giving us orders in Halo and there are humorous lines spoken in The Simpsons: Hit and Run and Tony Hawk Underground, but we lose that experience whereas hearing people get to enjoy it. We should not have to feel left out at all like that. Now you may say The Simpsons: Hit and Run and Tony Hawk Underground lose profit from us deaf gamers.
While me and several of my friends have played games such as Grand Theft Auto 3 and True Crime: Streets of L.A.. We really appreciate the game containing subtitles. When playing GTA3, there are movie scenes between missions with subtitles in which makes it easier for us to comprehend what to do and make the game more fun and interesting. Same thing goes for True Crime, they do have quite a bit of humor and these games make us feel we are more equal to the society into the gaming world.
Games such as GTA3, True Crimes, and several others had gained popularity among me and other deaf people in community because of subtitles into those games. We do not have to feel the need to take it back to the store for a refund due to discrimination or lack of understanding it. If you wonder, there is about a total of 21 million deaf and hard of hearing people in the US alone. Of course it is population count from infant to old age, and profound deaf to minor hearing loss. If a game could reach out to at least 10,000 deaf gamers, then the companies should think this is still beneficial to them rather than losing 10,000 deaf customers.
Now, the subtitles are not only beneficial to deaf gamers, but it can be a great for hearing gamers who had to turn their sound off at night to be quiet and can still read and enjoy the game. Having subtitles may as well increase vocabulary and improve reading skills. These subtitles should have an option whether to it turn on or off at the game options’ selection screen.
Again, the subtitles should be an industry standard for all videogames. When we go out to rent or buy movies, we always look for the Closed Captioned (CC) or English Subtitled. I think videogames should have to add a certain label on game cases like on the back of those DVD movies. These are a way video game industries will give second thoughts about releasing games and realize this is important factor to increase more deaf gamers.
-Samuel C.
If you are looking to learn American Sign Language (ASL) on the web, you are in the right place! ASL Browser, developed by Michigan State University, where you can look up 2,500 videos of ASL signs. You need Quicktime program, to view their short clip signs.
Most of the ASL Browser material found on Personal Communicator CD-ROM which contains the rich graphics, sound, video , interactivity, and instant connection found which web site does not have. Personal Communicator was developed in 1994-1996.
I like to look and find some of few signs which I never heard or existed, I like to learn those signs!
After I am done with Information Technology classes at Rochester Institute of Technology for my concentration: web developer / programming. Then, I feel there's something I need more: learning new stuff related to web progamming which never existed what I learned at Information Technology class courses. I find the interesting site, which I can learn myself from tutorial site, you can learn: HTML, XHTML, CSS, SQL, XML, XSL, DTD, JavaScript, DHMTL, and list goes on.
I enjoyed learning SQL tutorial for my first time and I took quiz for that after learning all SQL. I got 65% (13 out of 20 questions) on my first quiz. I also tried HTML and CSS quizzes without looking their tutorials. I got 80% and 85%.
As you wondering where the term word, "blog" comes from, and I'm going to give you the definitions from webopedia.com website.
(n.) Short for Web log, a blog is a Web page that serves as a publicly-accessible personal journal for an individual. Typically updated daily, blogs often reflect the personality of the author.
(v.) To author a Web log.
