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Hello Hollywood, click the link in the upper right that …

Comment posted on Help by pedantickarl

Hello Hollywood,
click the link in the upper right
that says Dashboard, then look
for a link that says Profile. On the
Profile page you can change your
password, email adr. and other
things. If you need further help
reply to any of my comments.

pedantickarl also commented

• Hi star magic,
  I wish you well in your search
  for answers and pursuits of your dreams.
  Karl
• Hello star magic,
  You can just leave the account lie dormant.
  If the account were to be deleted, someone
  else could create an account with that name
  and impersonate you. If at any time in the
  future you wish to return, the account is here
  for you. If you do not feel comfortable with
  leaving personal info in you account, just
  remove those items and leave them blank. If
  it won’t let you leave a field blank, just insert
  some dummy data, such as xxxxx for example.
• Hello grace0604015,
  In order to be able to view the videos you will want to make sure that you have the latest Adobe Flash player. You can download the Flash player for free at this link.
• Hello joewillgo,
  Yes, Marina has a MySpace page, but, as she says on that page, she is never over there. All of the fun stuff happens over here at HotForWords.com
• Hello joewillgo,
  Click on the Admin link in the upper right of the page.
  That will get you to a page that is called the Dashboard.
  Then, in the upper left of the page is a link called, Profile. Click it, which will take you to the profile page with all of your personal settings. Scroll down to Contact Info and you will be able to change your email address there. If you need additional help, reply here or elsewhere.

Recent comments by pedantickarl

• Sexual Words in the Dictionary
  Damiana,
  I answered Rijk over here regarding the question of spam.

  I only list a few known items that can cause your comment to be flagged as spam. I can tell you from personal experience that when I post a comment on my own blog as a non-logged in user, all of my comments are flagged as spam and I can only guess that it is either related to my domain or it is related to the username being on a list (black list) from other postings elsewhere. I would have to research the spam filter’s rules to see what’s going on.

  In your case, if you created another username such as Damiana1 for example, and if your comments were still being flagged, it would indicate a blacklisting of your domain or cookies. Clear your cookies and see what happens. Of course you will lose your personalizations and you would have to key your username and passwords back in again.

  As background information, here is the Wordpress information on the spam filter called Akismet.
  http://codex.wordpress.org/Combating_Comment_Spam

• Tissue + Sneeze
  Hi CK,
  My reference to accessibility refers more to the idea of usability in terms of browser standards and ability to present a consistent user experience across all platforms and browsers. Handicapped accessibility certainly is one of those elements and comes under a variety of guidelines such as WAI, UAAG, ATAG, ADA and others.

  Hearing impaired Closed Captioning is usually done by people with the skillset and technology to create accurate captioning. It is not a trivial task unless a TA has that skillset or the time. Of course you don’t have to be a TA to volunteer to do this kind of work. Anyone with the time and skill set can do it.

  All one needs is to get permission from Marina to replicate the video and then to insert the captioning which can be either hard captioned (visible at all times) or Closed Captioned using YouTube’s player technology.

  A two minute video would take me about 20 min to an hour or more to transcribe and add the captioning. The reason for the time is that some words require to be looked up, insert corrections as needed and verify the proper transcription. Someone with a transcribing skillset would be able to do it much more quickly than I could. There are tools that can help, such as speech to text converters. I have not tried it on these videos yet.

  Many of the hearing impaired institutes hire people to do these kinds of tasks, and I think many of them are very busy. There is always the question of demand and how many hearing impaired users would this help.

  I would think that anyone aligned with the hearing impaired community would take the lead in this endeavor in order to create and implement a plan for captioning.

• Tissue + Sneeze
  Hi Jan,
  I added a summary of Marina’s 9th visit to the O’Reilly Factor show in the Forum. You can also see my previous summaries of all of Marina’s visits to O’Reilly.
• COP15
  Hello Rijk,
  I don’t think you meant, “… my super-girl got spammed…”
  I think you meant to say that a comment posting by my super-girl was flagged as spam?

  I don’t think the number of comments per thread would cause a comment to be flagged.

  There are a few things that I am aware of that can cause a comment to be flagged as spam. Some of them are:
  1. Repeated editing when trying to apply an illegal HTML code.
  For example, lets say that I want to add some HTML code and it didn’t turn out right. Then, I edit the comment again and tweak the code to try to get it right. After a certain number of attempts, that will cause a comment to be flagged.

  2. Adding too many links can cause a comment to be flagged as spam.

  I’m sure there are others, and I don’t know all of the violations that can cause a comment to be spammed. Another factor could be the domain that she is logged in from. Sometimes the spam filter can falsely flag a user as a spammer due to association with other known spammers in that domain. (ref black lists for example)

  All of the above have happened to me on this site and also on my own blog.

• Interview for Associated Content
  Wonderful article Jan. I enjoyed reading your second article on Marina. I remember reading your article last year which was published in July ‘08. There have been many changes along the way for Marina in almost a year and a half and your new article reflects those changes very nicely.

  The first article that you wrote in July 03, 2008 is located on this site here.

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