NAD has set up a blog/vlog to post information that comes out of their national conference going on right now in New Orleans.
http://blogs.nad.org/NADConference/
Part of what makes the web useful is the ability to immediately disseminate information. No longer do Deaf people have to wait for the conference to be over to find out what has been discussed, and about new developments. Of course, NAD will publish news about the conference in their newsletter/magazine, but members and other interested parties don’t have to wait for that to come out. They can go to the website.
Plus, NADmag (the name of their publication) can’t sign to you. A vlog can sign to you.
The most recent posting is an interview with Bernard Bragg, world renowed Deaf actor and storyteller. For the same interview to be published in NADmag, the staff would have to translate ASL into English text, which carries the possibility of altering Bragg’s intent behind his responses. One interesting thing to note is that the interview does not have a transcript forthcoming, while interviews with Phyllis Frelich and Bobbie Beth Scoggins both have messages indicating a “transcript to come.”
