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The personal blog of P. Kerim Friedman.

Deaf Video

Teresa at Making Light has a great post about how deaf people are using YouTube: Why did it not occur to me that the signing deaf would be using YouTube as a public forum? This is transformational. Many of them aren’t comfortably fluent in written language. For many more, sign is and always will be [...]

Inequality Roundup

I’ve been delinquent in writing up the half a dozen stories on global inequality which I’ve been meaning to blog about, so here they all are in one go: “the richest 2% of adults in the world own more than half of global household wealth.” That’s looking at wealth, rather than income, but Michael Turton [...]