"Reaction [beta]"
Sign of the times 19 Dec 2006
Teresa Neilsen Hayden reports on a new YouTube phenomenon:
"Why did it not occur to me that the signing deaf would be using YouTube as a public forum? This is transformational. Many of them aren't comfortably fluent in written language. For many more, sign is and always will be their first language. YouTube gives them an easy, expressive, unmediated channel for many-to-many communication."
As William Gibson said, "The street finds its own uses for things."
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Steve T 19 Dec 2006 02:45 PM
Stories like this really do make you believe that Tim Berners-Lee's vision of the web as "a single, universal, accessible medium for sharing information" can be realised.