ASL Video - Approx 3:03 Minutes Long
Grant discussed about scam issues (all kinds) in Deaf Community. He said everyone need to be extra pay attention when it comes with a large sum of money from stranger or even good friends. It doesn’t matter if they are from outside US or your neighbours.
When in doubt, ask your friend, family or co-workers!! Do not be afraid!!!
Grant Laird Jr.
http://blog.grantlairdjr.com
ASL Video - 3:19 Minutes Long
Grant discussed about RSS Reader program – he wondered if anybody still uses it today. He still use faithfully with Bloglines.com – it serve him very well. Last time many DeafRead fans discussed in 2006, there’s small numbers of people actually use RSS Reader faithfully while everyone else trying to understand what it is all about.
Many 3rd party services such as youtube.com, flickr.com and even Netflix.com have its own feeds. Also, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 and Firefox 2.0 have its own RSS Reader or can plug into 3rd party such as Bloglines.
It’s been more than one year later, DeafRead.com grew bigger along DeafVideo.TV and others. Do you guys still use it regularly? Did you change for better program? Did you actually give it up? Give us your feedback.
Time to try RSS Reader (Posted in July 2006)
http://grantlairdjr.com/wp/2006/07/22/time-to-try-rss-reader/
RSS in Plain English (Posted in January 2007)
http://grantlairdjr.com/wp/2007/05/01/rss-in-plain-english/
Grant Laird Jr.
http://blog.grantlairdjr.com
ASL Video - Approx 8:00 Minutes Long
Grant talked how he originally started Deaf Network website 10 years ago. (November 1997 – Present) Before he signed up new domain, he used free webpage service under local ISP. Also, he was lucky to learn some HTML codes (Using Notepad) from his friend at job. Of course things are slow but very exciting at this time.
Remember at this time, Netscape was very popular so does AOL and Google was nothing but baby. Dot-Com has gone crazy. Each domain cost $35 dollars – it is very expensive compared $10 per domain today.
Back then, they had few clients such as Merritt Interpreting Service, Deaf Celebration, Jean Massieu Academy, Dallas Deaf Club, and Deaf Action Center. They are important part of his dream – feed information such as events, announcement and others to community yet it’s all free.
You will see how ugly our website was before and it kept get better and better.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.deafnetwork.com
Deaf Network of Texas mailing list started off with 300 subscribers and it grew over 3,000 subscribers today. It’s been amazing experience – he will never forget that many people think is email is crazy and stupid. But he saw it full of opportunity for deaf community.
He never dreams it would continue that long but he plan to continue as long as demand is there. He’s blessing to have wonderful supporters, advertisers and fans over years.
Grant Laird Jr
http://blog.grantlairdjr.com
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