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I’m reading more about the “next greatest thing on the Internet” called SecondLife.

It’s a virtual community where you can create your own world, and possibly make money from it.

Is there a “deaf community” there yet?

Where Sign Language Is Far From Foreign

Since I live in Rochester NY, I do have a unique perspective.

Recently DeafNation held it’s show in Rochester, NY. How many attended? I don’t think it even hit 3,000.

How does this square with 90,000 deaf or HOH that the NY Times claims?

And there’s a lot more to Rochester than just the deaf culture. How about jobs? Deaf-owned businesses? Mr. Zack is hearing, so why is he part of the story? We have a deaf insurance agent and a deaf owner of a sign language agency. Why not interview them?

Of course, the “NY Slimes” leaves out the full story, as usual.

Back then, I wrote about podcasting and the deaf .

Thanks to Digg, a real estate agent with hearing loss wrote about how podcasting is gaining a wider acceptance in selling real estate, while forgetting about their potential deaf customers.

Podcasting and other Hearing Imparied Issues in the Real Estate Industry

Traditions! Oh, how we love them! Christmas parties, Christmas cookies, Christmas tree catching fire that burned down a house, etc. Same usual stuff that happens every year.

Here’s a new tradition: Annual warnings that Christmas toys are too loud.

Noisy Christmas toys can damage hearing

As if Ipods weren’t dangerous enough.

Hamodia Magazine is the only Jewish Orthodox daily newspaper covering a wide range of topics of interest to the Jewish Community. Hamodia does NOT have an Internet Edition.

Hamodia recently printed an article about the Orthodox Jewish Deaf  Community. Jewish Deaf Community Center was gracious to host a scanned copy in .pdf on their website.

Hearing: Their Silent World