Brief summary: Amara has released a crowdsourcing subtitling app for YouTube (personal users). You hook your YouTube account into Amara, and get a link inviting people to help subtitling your video in multiple languages. This is the main announcement (http://about.amara.org/2013/02/05/announcing-crowdsourced-subtitles-for-your-youtube-channel/) and this is the press release (…

If you want to avoid missing out on any potential viewers of your web series, do not put it on Yahoo at screen.yahoo.com. The reason why: Yahoo's video player does not support closed captioning. This means that your web series not only misses out on deaf and hard of hearing viewers, it also misses out on a substantial number of international viewers who like to watch web series with English captions.…

Not many web series are closed captioning, and it is not easy for people to find them. So a new blog has been started, Captioned Web TV, at http://captionedwebtv.blogspot.com. I don't have a screenshot to post here because otherwise I will be inadvertently promoting someone's web series. So instead I will describe the blog.

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