This is from Beth Kanter: Here’s the deal. We need to be in the top four charities that get the most unique donors in order to win the $50,000 for the Sharing Foundation. Right now we’re number 5, only trailing by 28 donors. Essentially, I am asking YOU for $10 (USD) to help children in [...]
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Check Out Beth’s Blog
Yesterday, I mentioned on Twitter that I gave a presentation at work about using an internal blog for sharing news and announcements. Before I knew it, non-profit tech consultant Beth Kanter was interviewing me via IM about the presentation and the launch of the internal blog. I gave Beth my slides from my presentation and [...]
Out with the New and in with the Old
My new tumblelog has arrived at http://minorjive.net (feed). A while ago I decided to set up another WordPress blog as a tumblelog, to keep clippings of web content that I come across on the web. I didn’t like the limited functionality of the popular hosted Tumblr service, so I thought it would be better to [...]
Unions, Mobsters and Government Thuggery
Since my recent post on domestic surveillance and J. Edgar Hoover’s secret plan for mass detentions of suspected “subversives,” I’ve come across a number of blog posts that make interesting supplements to the sources I originally assembled. I’m posting excerpts from two historically focused pieces here and will follow up soon with another post that [...]
I hope we’ll do better in 2008
My thoughts have been returning lately to Jeanne D’Arc. She retired from blogging in 2006, but her blog Body and Soul was the blog that first inspired me to start Hungry Blues. Sadly, she closed down the archives on the typepad blog she had kept from around August 03 – August 06. Her older blogger [...]
What Is This You Bring My America?
Last Sunday, the New York Times reported that among hundreds of recently declassified intelligence documents from the 1950s was a 1950 proposal by former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to suspend habeas corpus and imprison some 12,000 Americans he suspected of disloyalty…. Hoover wanted President Harry S. Truman to proclaim the mass arrests necessary to [...]
Nokh a Glezl (Happy Christmas)
I’m one of the lucky early members of the seesmic video blogging community. Seesmic is cool because a) you can record directly to the site and b) it is set up like twitter to be real social and encourage conversations via video. For a fuller explanation, see the link to Steve Garfield in my previous [...]
Elle, PhD is Waiting in Louisiana
Elle, PhD is has ventured to answer Langston’s still prescient question, “What happens to a dream deferred?” If you know about small communities in the South, you know that Jena is not an aberration of racial progress but rather a manifestation of festering tensions that have never gone away. What’s amazing about Elle’s blog post [...]
Megan Williams on Video
I have not had a chance to blog about the important AP interview with Megan Williams. Go read it, but also check out the video excerpts from it, below. Megan Williams is articulate and composed. She does not seem at all like she is mentally challenged or “slow,” as has been reported. No time for [...]
History of the Obvious
Final Call: There were some news reports that you had a relationship with one of the defendants, Bobby Brewster. Is this accurate? Megan Williams: We were just friends. It was nothing like that. FC: No dating relationship between you and defendant Bobby Brewster? MW: No. They kicked me in the head with steel toed boots, [...]
White Lawbreaking
P6 highlighted an important article in Slate, probing “why and when we will tolerate lawbreaking.” Tolerated lawbreaking is almost always a response to a political failure-the inability of our political institutions to adapt to social change or reach a rational compromise that reflects the interests of the nation and all concerned parties. That’s why the [...]
I Listened to It Straight Through
And it’s good. You can check it out on the player embedded below the fold (so the auto start doesn’t kick in when you load my home page). It’s a project called The Harlem Experiment.
Remodeling Hungry Tumblin
I’ve put the tumblelog into maintenance mode while I am making some changes to it. Among other things I’m messing around with Twitter integration. If you’ve subscribed to the RSS feed, you’ll see my tests. Sorry about that. UPDATE 10/8: Hungry Tumblin is back online. I’m still working out a few of the details (getting [...]
Updates: Megan Williams, Barnes & Noble
Megan Williams In the comments, Cherise asked “Does anyone know if there has been any funding put into place to help with her medical bills, or therapy needs she may have?” Universalwriter replied that Chase Bank has set up a trust fund for Megan Williams. Universalwriter has set up a website providing ongoing coverage of [...]
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