The BIGGEST problem with VLOGS is, we cannot do a search on the actual signing of VLOGS. For english text, we can use the search command for keywords and find it. How can we do this with a VLOG and skip right to that part. There are some videos where you can “2x fast forward” and still be able to read the signs or even the captioning. My tivo has this, so to save time I would watch shows in 2x format and read the captioning fast. I don’t recall seeing a vlog in this format though, and it could be useful if some signers are slow by nature.

Victoria,

Back in the old days, like 1992, computers only had like 60mb of memory, dial up speed was very painful and over the years, more memory are used up and connection speeds increase exponentially. We can’t think about future bandwidth keeping current speeds in mind. If anything, i think text could be obsolete in the future of internet and more video will be used. When I go to CNN.com, I want to read a story about something, I usually get a video instead. Video in this case will still have a problem of being skimmed over like Bucky mentioned. Perhaps, Deaf people will use voice recognition software, which is currently available now, to use in lieu of captioning.

I don’t follow technology, but I think there are ‘different” speeds the internet is connected and apparently designers have found a way for much faster access that everyone can use all the multimedia resources without any lag time. I don’t remember if this is the right info, but videoconference in HD format would be easily handled on this new internet cable. Technology will always improve and who knows if text will be utilized more or less in the future.

BUT, I have a different beef about our new vlogs these days. We still aren’t at equal access with blogs that use English. I personally myself don’t watch too much vlogs because it wastes my time. A lot of times I open a vlog and it’s not interesting to me but I still watch it because “you never know it may turn interesting later”. Most of the time it doesn’t. With English blogs, I can skim. I can just quickly skim down and if I find an interesting part, I slow down and READ.

Not only that, we also need more experince or training on vlogs. I know it’s a whole new thing and that’s part of the process but I am bringing this to light now. A lot of vlogs are pointless. They just blab their way wasting time on the video. Some blogs do blab too and the majority of the people are able to giggle and skim that part. I think that if a vlog is to be made, it should be right to the point and clear. That’s another issue – signing in front of a video camera is not the same as signing with someone. It needs to be very clear as well to be seen in 2D.

My ideas to solve those problems – perhaps a deaf person could create a website like youtube.com or work with them to enable us to fastforward vlogs with different speeds just like a dvd. We would be able to “skim” ASL and slow down if something comes up interesting. As for quality of comments and sign – that probably would come with time when we all wear out the excitement of vlogs but maybe provide some training as well?

Just a thought,
- Victoria

In an individual blog, though there are some storage issues to consider…It would take up a lot of space to host video replies, especially if the person rambles all over or something. So having it integrated into something like this will likely take longer to happen — when you get terabytes of space on free accounts, I suppose