Amanda sends along links to "videos of Deaf folks signing 'blogs'. particularly http://carl-schroeder.blogspot.com/ if you just glimpse at www.deafread.com it gives a sense of how many people are participating in these video blogs... amazing."
I noticed Carl Schroeder is from Hawai'i, I wonder what he knows about the Independent Nation of Hawai'i, and how he and the Deaf community there feels about it.
I fooled around for a minute and found this one, Deaf vloggers influence on my signing" by Chris Blythe. Some of the signs I didn't recognize (the one he attributed to Ella Lentz, especially) and a few others look like what I'd call "old ASL" or non-initialized signing (such as the vernacular sign for "KITCHEN"). It makes me wonder whether this technology of vlogging is an antedote to the reduced interpersonal/community contact feared by some culturally Deaf with the advent of video-relay services (so Deaf people can do more-and-more of their business from home by videophone instead of traveling out into the world).
Meanwhile, someone (thank you!) posted a link in the comments a while back to an interview with Shirley Childress Saxton, the longtime ASL interpreter for Sweet Honey in the Rock.
