Zits: Vlog Comic (click to enlarge)

This comic illustrates how quickly blogs have come (and, for some, gone) in today’s age of technology where everything seems to change so quickly. Look at how smaller and faster our mobile phones are. Vlogs may have replaced blogs for some–but only for a brief time. While blogs are remaining more mainstream, vlogs may have pulled a disappearing act.

Not so in the deaf community. Vlogging has become a part of the deaf online community. First appearing on DeafRead approximately January 2007, the deaf community appreciates vlogs as a communication tool that helps get the message out to a wider audience. This reach is evident by the higher number of visits vlogs receive as compared to blog posts.

Vlogs are consistently found on 10% to 20% of posts at DeafRead. An average of 80 vlogs a day appear on DeafVIDEO.TV.

The ASL video movement is sweeping across all websites that cater to deaf visitors. NAD’s President has produced and published a number of vlogs, and so has Gallaudet University’s President. NAD state chapters, deaf services agenices, and other organizations are slowly but surely adding ASL videos to their websites. It won’t be long before ASL videos is a standard.

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