Angela Chambers, editor of the Plano edition of neighborsgo, asked if I could attend the coffee to talk to people about my neighborsgo experiences. Background: neighborsgo is the Dallas Morning News’ citizen journalism site where some lucky stories make it into the print edition of neighborsgo, which comes out on Fridays. There are 18 different …
March 2009 archive
Word on the Tip of Your Finger?
Many of us have said, “It’s on the tip of my tongue… I know it. I can’t remember the word I’m looking for.” It happens to signers, too. This study indicates that it’s the brain’s misplacing of a memory — not a phonetic or vocalization issue. Deaf Signers Feel the Words on the Tip of …
Audism Free America to Protest
Audism Free America Targets The Volta Bureau The purpose of the one-day rally is to call attention to how the Volta Bureau/AGBell Association has been an active force in the denial of linguistic and human rights of Deaf citizens through its practices of Audism. Audism is the assumption that behaving in ways of those who …
Can You Hear This?
NoiseAddicts has a great hearing test to see what you can and can’t hear. It provides sounds from 8kHz up to 22 kHz. Don’t fret if you can’t hear anything beyond 15 kHz. It just means you’re most likely to be over the age of 25 and that’s normal. I can’t even hear the 8kHz …
A Purim Miracle
I’ve always hated services. I sat there bored out of my mind. Once in a blue moon, I made an effort to sit and follow. But it was too much work for little meaning. For a few years, I’d take a religious book and read it on my own. At least, I was with my …
Convert Voice Mail to Text Report #3
As a BrightHub writer, I learned about another voice mail to text service except this one has an added feature the others don’t have: Address book. It integrates your cell phone’s address book with the service’s web-based application. The web-based application lets you see the missed calls, voice mail to text messages, and your address …