We’ve been busy recently with releasing an update to the Overstream.net, so not much chance to blog…

MagicHerbs makes a great point about same-language subtitling.

Good point. This, combined with initiatives such as MIT Open CourseWare, can go a long way.

But on a smaller scale it’s being done right now, for the same purposes - like Nelson’s The Giving Tree or Tanya’s “Merry Chipmunks Christmas”. (P.S. Tanya, thanks for considering us user-friendly, we appreciate it!)

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P.S. A while ago, proud-geek expressed concern about embedding Overstreamed videos into Wordpress. Apparently, it’s been fixed — see our previous blog entries powered by the very same Wordpress.

Washington Post calls Obama’s “The YouTube presidency“.

Unfortunately, it is lacking English captions — to make it accessible to deaf/hard-of-hearing communities, and captions in other languages — to make it accessible to both non-English speaking US constituency and to a world-wide audience.

Yes, transcripts are provided, which follows their commitment to accessibility. But reading the transcript is not as effective as watching a video.

Thanks to Bill Creswell for quickly captioning it. I suppose this is the true Web 2.0 way — users are generating content and filling in the missing pieces. But cool as it may be, when the content provider is the government, it would do well to provide accessible versions itself.

Here is the captioned version: