Grant Laird, Jr. Blog

ASL Video - Approx 5:00 Minutes Long

Grant talked about DeafNetwork.com which recently celebrating 10th Anniversary. It’s been rich experience for him over years. One thing he mentioned that there’s few deaf-related website that still existing today – after running for about 10 years?

He remembers many deaf-related website that are no longer in business due to gave it up, it get bored or purse something else.

Note: There’s many more actively website starting 1999 but not many before that.

Still around and/or going strong: (Around 10 years +)

• www.deaf.com 
• www.deafchat.com  
• www.deafnetwork.com 
• www.deafvision.com
• www.deafology.com
• www.deafqueer.net
• www.harriscomm.com  

Dying, quiet, and/or what? (Around 10 years +)

• www.deaftoday.com 
• www.deafzone.com 
• www.deafbiz.com 
• www.deafmall.net
• www.deafclubs.com 
• www.deafbase.com
• www.deaflibrary.org
• www.deaf.net  (owned by Osmond Family)

Long Gone Dead (Since 10 years ago or so)

• www.deafmillennium.net 
• www.deafexpo.org 
• www.deaffiesta.com 
• www.silentnews.com 
• What else?

If you notice that Grant forgot to list (any category) please make comment. Thanks!

Grant Laird Jr. 
http://blog.grantlairdjr.com

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Did Jeep Dealer misleading us? Since I use Gmail (Google Email) frequently and I saw this Google advertising "ada OK Truck" - What the hell is that? I went ahead and click it to see for myself. It is nothing but Jeep advertising. Sigh.

In case you didn’t know how it works, Google Advertising crawling all words from this email. In this case, it is about closed captioning and disabled which trigged "ada" then it appeared like that.

This is silly - there’s no such thing as ada ok truck out there.

Link: Google Ad - ada ok truck - click here

Grant Laird Jr. 
http://blog.grantlairdjr.com

ASL Video - Approx 5:00 Minutes Long

Several bloggers and vloggers discussed regarding ASL students whether they should attend different places such as Deaf Chat Coffee, DPHH, or Deaf Club. Grant acknowledged that its difficult to provide good places for students to learn ASL better in real environment. Same times, deaf and hard of hearing folks are trying to relax and have good times. (Seriously)

He feels that ASL students should take advantage of some places like Deaf Chat Coffee because it’s family-oriented & relax environment, free admission, no smoking, and closer to home. (in most cases) DeafCoffee.com has its own directory where they can contact them directly. Based on his experience, there’s always someone who’s always happy to talk to them directly.

Hopefully, ASL students will understand and respect their times. Same time, ASL teacher or instructor should look hard at it again and reconsider how students get their training properly outside their classroom. (Just friendly suggestion)

What do you think?

Grant Laird Jr
http://blog.grantlairdjr.com