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Links last verified November 5th, 2008.
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A blog or web-log is a kind of internet diary. In essence, it's just a web site, but with some extra bits that make it easy and interactive to use.
Get more information on blogs from Wikipedia
Visitors to blogs can not only read the content , they can also react and leave comments. So quite extended conversations and collaborations can take place. The ease of use has proved very popular with web users, and the blogosphere, not surprisingly, has mushroomed.
Another advantage is that most blogs have news feeds, so that it's very easy to trace what's being talked about on the web by monitoring feeds without even visiting the blog sites. In this way, the topics can be made to appear on your desktop. Taking it a stage further, you can bundle your RSS feeds into OPML files that you can import into your news reader so that you can use all the feeds or share them with other people. Examples of news readers are Snarfer, Accessible RSS and Newsgator (not to be confused with spyware with a similar name).
The Blind World Swicki, detailed below, is not working at present - 21st May 2008. Sorry, the whole of the swicki service seems to be down.
Blind World Swicki - a blindness search engine
Copernic Metasearch - search with several search engines at once. Get Copernic Agent
Opera Community Blog Search Results
BlogDigger
BlogPulse
Google Blogs
IceRocket (Blogs)
MSN Feeds
OPML Search
RSSMicro
Syndic8
TailRank
Technorati
Vox
Wordpress 'blindness' tag feed
Yahoo! Blogs
This is a preliminary listing of some of the blogs in the blindness field that look interesting. It is bound to change often, so please come back again. I've quoted the news feed whenever I've been able to find one.
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Abrahams Accessibility Blog
RSS Feed
Adventures of a Blind Cashier
Atom Feed
AFB Blog from the American Federation for the Blind.
RSS Feed
After Blindness Comes Light - personal blog by a visually impaired artist.
Atom feed
Are we all Web2.0 crazy? - "Thoughts from a librarian interested in the web's potential for information provision, looking at accessibility and assistive technology in particular.". Ruth is a librarian at Oxford University who works with disabled students.
Atom Feed
RSS Feed
As Your World Changes - "adjusting to vision loss with class, using technology". From the folks who programmed
@podder, an accessible podcast receiver program.
RSS Feed (feed not working at present? Dec. 1st, 2007).
ATMac Blog - Assistive Technology for Mac OS X Users.
RSS Feed
Assistive Technology Blog Carnival - contributions by several familiar bloggers.
Atom Feed
RSS Feed
Attitudes Are the REAL Disability by a teacher who teaches blind students.
Atom Feed
BBC Access 2.0 - part of the
Ouch! disability web site.
RSS Feed
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Jim Fruchterman of
Bookshare.
ATOM Feed
Blind Access Journal - Darrell and Karen Shandrow tackle many issues of accessibility, in technology and elsewhere.
RSS Feed
Blind Bargains - Deals & News for the Blind & Visually Impaired.
RSS Feed
Blind Bloggers - blind learners and technology.
RSS Feed
Blind Confidential Blog by Chris Hofstader. Blindness, technology and other things.
RSS Feed
Blind Geek Zone - Rick Harman comments on technology.
RSS Feed
Blind Traveller by a blind Jewish lesbian foster-mother and assistive tech trainer.
RSS Feed
Chairman Mal's Little Red Book - "You have found a portal into an alternative universe where blindness is commonplace, where the blind rule, enjoy full employment and universal access to technology. Readers are invited to speculate about what this world could be like."
Atom Feed
Colblindor - "Color Blindness viewed through Colorblind Eyes"
RSS Feed
Darran's Deaf-Blind Blog
Atom Feed
Desktop Team - blog for Opera web browser
Atom Feed
RSS Feed
Diary of a Monkey - by Jemma Brown, partially sighted artist and hater of mobility scooters.
Atom Feed
Do Your Worst - by Damon Rose, producer of Blindkiss.com and the BBC Ouch! disability website.
RSS Feed
E-Access Blog - Modern Government and a Fair Society.
RSS Feed
emacspeak The Complete Audio Desktop by T. V. Raman of
Google Accessible Search fame.
ATOM Feed
Fred's Head Companion from the American Printing House for the Blind.
Podcast on Talkr
RSS News Feed Talkr Web Page includes mp3 versions of the blog.
IEBlog - The Microsoft Internet Explorer Weblog.
Atom Feed
RSS Feed
Jazz Sightless!-The Adventures of a Blind Jazz Musician
RSS Feed
Lioncourt.com - Mac-cessibility for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
RSS Feed
Low Vision Lowdown - Radio host Kristin Macdonald talks about her program on Big Media USA, devoted to providing tips and information to the visually impaired.
RSS Feed
Madman at Work - by someone with a variable photosensitive condition.
RSS Feed
Marco's Accessibility Blog - "Musings, tipps and tricks about the accessible software world" - one-time Freedomn Scientific developer comments on access tech.
RSS Feed
Nickie's Nook - "The Radical Ramblings of a tactless teen." Sharp observations by a teenage student who has a chronic pain condition as well as a visual impairment.
RSS Feed
NBP Book Updates from National Braille Press, USA.
RSS Feed
Peter Korn's Weblog an accessibility specialist at Sun Microsystems writes an occasional blog.
RSS Feed
Planet of the Blind by Stephen Kuusisto, author of a book also called "Planet of the Blind".
RSS Feed
Print is Dead: Books in our Digital Age. There is also a
podcast.
RSS News Feed
Reading in the Dark (alias The Blind Bookworm Blog) - the techno-adventures of a blind bookworm exploring the space between disability and technology...
Atom Feed
RSS Feed
RNIB Web Access Centre Blog
RSS Feed
Science Blog - look for topics within the Human Eye category.
RSS Feed
Second Life for the Visually Impaired - Analysing the accessibility of Second Life with respect to visual impairment.
RSS Feed
Seeing Without Glasses
RSS Feed
Sensory Metrics - re-inventing the User Experience
RSS Feed
SeroTalk Podcast and Blog - find out a bout the latest access technology, and take part by phone or e-mail. Produced by Serotek, makers of System Access.
RSS Feed for both blog and podcast
Serotek Blog - the people who may have brought you Freedombox and System Access comment on developments in their yard.
Atom Feed
T & T Consultancy Blog and Podcast - material from CSUN and Sight Village and other things.
RSS Feed
Talking Books Librarian - "A blog about Talking Books and other great resources for blind or visually impaired persons. Find out what's happening in the world of libraries and Talking Books! The blog also includes information and resources of importance to older adults, as well as those with disabilities."
Atom Feed
Technology Blog and Podcast by Jared Rimer
RSS Feed
Technology Esoterica - "A blog dealing with concepts and technologies that are considered esoteric like chaos theory, sensory substitution and speech recognition." Includes experiences using the vOICe graphics-to-sound technology.
Atom Feed
RSS Feed
The Blind Blogger by Roger Wilson-Hines, he of Thunder screenreader fame. Atom News Feed
The Chaos World of Assistive Technology Blog - "The latest and greatest, tips and tricks and other items of interest".
RSS Feed
The Desert Skies by developer and ACB presenter Jeff Bishop. Well-informed information on the latest technology.
RSS Feed
The JAWS for Windows and Pacmate Blog
RSS Feed
The Portable Player Portal Blog - Brian Hartgen gives information on accessible mp3 players and similar devices.
RSS Feed
The Ranger Station - Ramblings from some dude in the Assistive Technology industry.
RSS Feed
Tina's Virtual Backpack this and that about accessibility -
RSS Feed
Vicki Manley's LiveJournal - Sound Studio Technology Degree student.
Atom Feed
RSS Feed
Voice of the Nation's Blind - from the (American) National Federation of the Blind
RSS Feed
Wiki Visual Impairment - a plea for visually impaired people to contribute to their own version of Wikipedia dealing with visual impairment issues.
Atom Feed
RSS Feed
Wise Advice by Helen McFadyen. Cooking, dogs and vision loss. She's Canadian, and has lots of time on her hands....
RSS Feed
Yodel Anecdotal - Yahoo! people blogging about their world. Includes some accessibility discussions.
RSS Feed
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