Monday, May 05, 2008
Commenting On Deaf Blog/Vlog Aggregators
I have a lot of respect for Tayler Mayer and his Deafread.com and Deafvideo.tv aggregator projects. He has my envy and the envy of the deaf blog world. Tayler planted the first stake in an untamed field. Seeing the stake survive almost 2 years, its time others get to put up similar stakes in the same field.
Blog aggregators are a powerful tool at uniting a balkanized deaf community. It should not be used to further divide up the deaf community.
The problem is that whenever blogs are submitted to an aggregator the human editors, like in deafread for example, the human editors some being hardcore DBC core members or followers use their personal judgment on deciding what is 'deaf enough' to be on the front page. I'm seeing a lot of good deaf related material ending up in the gutter pages of that particular aggregator. Not only that, a number of other troubling elements have been appearing on the aggregator itself. There's a word for what I've been seeing and its called HYPOCRISY!
This is the hypocrisy that holds a lot of promise at preventing the divided deaf community from reunifying ever again.
Being a man of action, I started another aggregator, and I assure this will be more of an unifying force than whats been displayed at the other aggregator. Our Blogs are divided in 4 simple categories. We even have a hotlist out in the front page and all blogs submitted will be on it. As of now the core aggregator elements are up and running and we will be working on the cosmetics keeping in mind the need for simplicity and universal accessibility.
I'm not against deafread or any of Tayler's wonderful projects. I just need to weed out a few cultural bugs thats been affecting the deaf blogworld lately and our new www.hear-for-life.org aggregator will accomplish that for all of us.
Richard
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I completely agree, and posted as much to deaf.read. It is a brave group indeed that attempts to catagorise deaf/Deaf/CI input, it can't be done, but hey ! Kudos to deaf.read for having a stab at it. Deaf'read extra is a problem, it needs a clear, there are good blogs there which are in effect dumped let's face it, as does the 'tagging' of blogs which provide endless amusement to us outside America, where DO you get these ideas from for catgories ?
We've added 'add/remove requests' links to the category pages and we've added 17+ caution icons to the listings and will be updated this afternoon.
We've even been contacted by a major deaf service provider as a possible sponsor to the aggregator.
We are pleased to be as inclusive as possible such as using signtube.com, spoken vlogs, and foreign blogs/and vlogs.
All revenue generated by the aggregator is returned to the deaf community through services, education, employment, outreach activities, and sponsorships.
Despite the criticisms we've received insofar, were very excited that the aggregator is is creating waves in the deaf blogworld.
Richard
We've even been contacted by a major deaf service provider as a possible sponsor to the aggregator.
We are pleased to be as inclusive as possible such as using signtube.com, spoken vlogs, and foreign blogs/and vlogs.
All revenue generated by the aggregator is returned to the deaf community through services, education, employment, outreach activities, and sponsorships.
Despite the criticisms we've received insofar, were very excited that the aggregator is is creating waves in the deaf blogworld.
Richard
MM,
I'm using the same resources as I used when I was one of the editors of the deafnewspaper.com website.
Richard
I'm using the same resources as I used when I was one of the editors of the deafnewspaper.com website.
Richard
Perhaps it needs updating in light of drastic alternatives in input at deaf.read lately. If the bottom line is still D and d, it will have difficulty, as this seems to be totally dated and challenged a concept now...
Ok, so now that you have this set up, supposedly with an eye to inclusivity, can you tell us what your editorial policy will be as regards same?
# posted by 
: 2:05 PM, May 06, 2008
: 2:05 PM, May 06, 2008
As soon as this website runs a commenting system attached to the blogs you'll get the grasp of our inclusive editorial policy.
MM,
When one site grows in a specific direction, the others dont have to grow the same way it did. If we choose to grow differently that of the other site, then we'll grow that way.
Richard
MM,
When one site grows in a specific direction, the others dont have to grow the same way it did. If we choose to grow differently that of the other site, then we'll grow that way.
Richard
Email to add or remove ?? That's hogwash!
It should be automatic!
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It should be automatic!
# posted by : 8:03 PM, May 06, 2008
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