Monthly Archives: May 2007

Follow up to my suggestion to See Hear

To further emphasise my suggestion, here’s an extract from a statement, written by Malcolm Wright - MD of Signpost (ITV - Tyne Tees), to Ofcom during their Access Services review 2006.

Digital switchover – the need for better informationOfcom’s current research finds that:

people with hearing and / or visual impairments watch rather more television than the [...]

See Hear - my suggestion

In the light of the recent furore about BBC’s See Hear being knocked off the Saturday scheduling, into the middle of the week and downscaled to 30 mins instead of the usual 40 mins.  Terry Riley, the editor of the programme, outlined the BBC and See Hear visions in response to the  tide of discontentment among the Deaf [...]

Audism - reached the parts where Heineken can’t?

Posted this on the Deaf-Uk forum and felt it was too deep to discarded on the DUK server - owned by someone else. So, posting it again under my bog……blog!!!
I am absorbed by these comments from Erick. It is quite hard hitting for my liking but as I understand it is an American trait to [...]

Not fit for purpose?

Awww, heck. I am past caring now whether I get banned from Deaf UK. The antics of the moderator have gone too far and left me pretty disillusioned and feeling down in the heart. Members on Deaf UK are also pretty fed up with all this ongoings, which never seemed to have gone ever since the [...]

Shooting from the hips?

Whilst there is a lull at work, while the students are rushing to hand in their assignments and swotting up for exams, I came across this old article. The list below is an extract from this link (a personal website). Because of the empowerment angle, I felt it is worthy enough to be filtered out via the web 2.0 arena. Any thoughts [...]

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