Share my experience with police arrest due to warrant which happened about 18 years ago. It is not perfect but that’s something I learned from it – I definitely would do it better if it ever happen to me again…
Note: In vlog I said 1999, it was mistake — it should be 1989.
Rocketboom.com now offers subtitle for English and several another language starting right now. How cool is that? I know that Rocketboom.com have been doing podcast video for few years – of course I never bother to check it out because it doesn’t offers captions till now.
In case you are not familiar with Rocketboom, you can look it up at Wikipedia.com for its little history: Click here.
I watched several rocketboom videos with subtitle and it works great. Too bad it’s not widescreen and high quality video like their original video but its start. I hope other companies like Scoble Show will follow Rocketboom step.
According to announcement, dotSUB CEO Michael Smolens, they want to offers subtitle options even before it ever become mandatory by law. Smart move, Michael!
P.S. I tried to embedded one of the Rocketboom video thru dotSUB into my blog but it didn’t work. I guess it’s still beta like he mentioned.
Rocketboom’s announcement:
One of the most popular video podcasts is having all its episodes captioned
Beginning January 4th with its first daily episode for 2007, Rocketboom announced, in its video podcast, that all future episodes would be captioned and then available for subtitling in any language using dotSUB technology. You can see this announcement at this link. Click here.
There are still some bugs being worked out, but you can watch the captioned episodes each day by clicking the ‘translate’ link which appears first under the control buttons on the video player, and then to the right of the screen shot which appears, click on the pull down menu next to "WATCH" - and choose ‘English-100%’
The daily episode will then play with captions. Depending on whether any of the Rocketboom fans have chosen to translate it into any language, it will also be available in captioned format in those languages.
If any of you wish to translate it, just go to the ‘Advanced Tools’ box at the right of the screen, select your language from the pull down menu, hit ‘translate’ and begin. You don’t need to finish, just hit the ’save’ button when you are either finished, tired or bored,then done, and whatever you have translated will be available for anyone else at the site to see, add to, and enjoy.
We hope by offering captioned web based video long before any political or legal pressure to do so, we can be a catalyst for change.
Michael L. Smolens
Founder & CEO
dotSUB llc - Any Film Any Language
360 East 72nd St. #C3104
New York, NY 10021 USA
1-917-742-0158 - tel
1-646-403-9944 - fax
mlsmolens - Skype
Recently article “Proposed State Law Targets Cell Phone Drivers” — it raised some concerns about using cell phone while driving vehicle in Texas.
Personally, I’ve experienced couple near-accidents in the past. Yet I can’t help it but I still texting while driving vehicle everyday. It is like addicted and hard to put it down or pulled off the road.
In fact, cell phone and PDA-type (Blackberry, Sidekick, Treo, etc.) are not only issue we face everyday. Many of us still eat or chat while driving the vehicle. What about listening to radio? Some of us do read newspaper or something, too. What about laptop with cell phone based card on it? Yes, it falls into same category.
I know some of you can do it very well while driving. Some people cannot do it regardless. It’s pretty scary. What’s more, I disagree that hand-free device is OK to use. No way. It’s not fair that deaf people like you and I can’t really text the message without touch it.
Oh yeah, few cities and states already banned it from using cell phone and handheld. (New Jersey, District of Columbia, etc.) To view cell phone law list, click here.
Maybe you want to add this as part of your new year resolution by reduce this habit. It is one of my resolution for 2007.
Can you live without it while driving the vehicle? Why? Why not?
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