I've been hearing-impaired, not quite since birth, but I've been wearing hearing aids since I was 13, so I'm very conscious of the difficulty of voice communication.

Information flow is what the Internet is about. Information sharing is power. If you don't share your ideas, smart people can't do anything about them, and you'll remain anonymous and powerless.

Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people.

They say a year in the Internet business is like a dog year.. equivalent to seven years in a regular person's life. In other words, it's evolving fast and faster.

Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.

Privacy may actually be an anomaly.

We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.