An online newsletter ... was ... Re: [sw-l] a few things...and Obama logo O plus rainbow

Tue Nov 11 15:59:59 UTC 2008

Hoi,
When people start a Wikipedia, I always advise them to make sure that the
"punters" get what they want.. Even for a WIkipedia you want to increase
circulation.. The three things that invariably are what people are looking
for are sex, sport and background information to the news. Obviously,
volunteers write about what they are interested in, but it is true anyway..

When you have the ambition to write an encyclopaedia and to write about the
news as well, these two ambitions can strenghten each other... When you
write about what is news to you, you have to do some research. This can lead
to stubs and later more full fledged articles.
Thanks,
      Gerard

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Jonathan y Yolaine <joyoduncan at gmail.com>wrote:

> Valerie Sutton wrote:
>
>> SignWriting List
>> November 10, 2008
>>
>> Years ago we published the SignWriter Newspaper...from 1981 to 1984 (
>> http://www.signwriting.org/library/history/hist005.html), with a staff of
>> ten native signers. It was funded in part, by a publishing company in
>> Newport Beach, California...They paid for the printing of 11,000 newspapers
>> four times a year, and they also paid for the postage to ship the newspapers
>> free of charge to schools for the Deaf etc around the country and to several
>> European countries. It was a wonderful grant that really was exciting. The
>> SignWriter Newspaper gave us four years of important experiences...it is
>> because of the SignWriter Newspaper that we now are writing expressively and
>> also in vertical columns, because through the experience of writing articles
>> for the newspaper, our Deaf staff learned what was needed to make a better
>> writing system and that is why Lucinda O'Grady Batch and Meriam Ina
>> Schroeder and Dennis Schemenauer and others felt so strongly that the
>> writing system had to be expressive and vertical...so I see those years of
>> the SignWriter Newspaper as one of the best research projects we have ever
>> had...
>>
>> Then as you know, we stopped publication of the SignWriter Newspaper from
>> 1984 to 1989...to develop the SignWriter Computer Program, and then we
>> started a SignWriter Newsletter version for just a small group of
>> people...and it was typed by computer...Recently we have added those
>> SignWriter Newsletter articles starting in 1989, into the ASL Literature
>> Puddle. We could re-publish them now, in our new formatting, using
>> SignPuddle, and start sending the articles through SignMail...
>>
>> Once we have sent a few by SignMail to the SignWriting List, we can ask
>> all of our List members if they want to receive more...creating a specific
>> list of subscribers...and if there is interest, this could become a
>> wonderful project for me to ask for funding for...from new sponsors...
>>
>> Because of the financial crisis in the world right now, some of our annual
>> sponsors have not been sending their funding to us...I can really understand
>> why...one person told me that he lost a great deal of money in the stock
>> market and he couldn't help us right now...I totally understand but I have
>> also become stressed about this and I am looking for new angles to encourage
>> people to give...this new idea might help...the idea that we can provide
>> good information to Deaf adults about the world, and at the same time
>> encourage literacy too...
>>
>>  Hi Val,    That sounds like a very nice project!!! For other possible
> income you could do like WindowsSecrets.  They have a free newsletter and
> also another one with paid content.  If you want the paid content then you
> can subscribe for say a year.  See an example at.
> http://windowssecrets.com/2008/11/06/02-These-speedup-utilities-arent-worth-your-money
>
> Jonathan
>
>  So let me see what I can do, Adam...
>>
>> Meanwhile, your animated GIFs are so great and I look forward to finishing
>> the web pages for that, so everyone here on the List and see your wonderful
>> animated GIFs of the ISWA handshapes ;-))
>>
>> Val ;-)
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>> On Nov 10, 2008, at 4:32 PM, Adam Frost wrote:
>>
>>  And maybe also make it available in print for special requests. This
>>> would be a very fun thing to get involved in. ;-) I just know from
>>> experience that it would require more that just me to do this as I have
>>> tried to do it alone before.
>>>
>>> Adam
>>>
>>> On Nov 10, 2008, at 4:22 PM, Valerie Sutton wrote:
>>>
>>>  SignWriting List
>>>> November 10, 2008
>>>>
>>>>  On Nov 10, 2008, at 3:53 PM, Adam Frost wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I completely understand, and it makes sense to me as well. Most Deaf
>>>>>> in the US can't get involved with politics even if they wanted to because
>>>>>> there is no news station that is given in any form of SL. In fact, most of
>>>>>> the captioning on news stations are horrible. Newspapers have been the way
>>>>>> for Deaf people to get information for a long time, but those are dying out.
>>>>>> Now the main place to get news in on the internet, but there are a lot of
>>>>>> people who do not know how to use the internet, then the is the question of
>>>>>> where to go to a trusted source, and lastly is the frustration that all of
>>>>>> the news sites all too often use videos from the TV stations......
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> We could have an ongoing "newsletter through email" to those who
>>>> subscribe, written in ASL and English. We could have different topics,
>>>> related to the daily news and other important topics that Deaf people might
>>>> be isolated from...
>>>>
>>>> There will be very few readers in the beginning, but in time the
>>>> readership might build, and maybe it would provide more information to the
>>>> Deaf Community. It could arrive on your blackberry or handhelds...We could
>>>> also post these articles in the new SignWriting WikiMedia Plugin on the web,
>>>> which can lead to a real Wikipedia later...
>>>>
>>>> Would anyone be interested in helping with this? The problem is that I
>>>> am quite overbooked and at the moment we have no funding for this...so it
>>>> really needs funding...but imagine if we could get funding to write this ASL
>>>> newsletter on the topics of the day...
>>>>
>>>> That would be a great project for all of us - and inform the Deaf
>>>> Community...it is a shame they are cut off so badly from daily news...
>>>>
>>>> By the way, the logo for the Obama campaign is an O with a rainbow...it
>>>> is a lovely logo...and that is why some of those name signs were an O hand
>>>> and then the number 4 in a curve for the rainbow...it was "O with a rainbow"
>>>> to match his logo...
>>>>
>>>> So that logo might influence the sign for him in time...
>>>>
>>>> Here it is:
>>>>
>>>> <Obama.jpg>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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