April 2009
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Digital Open & Today's Learned Youth
I had an extremely lackluster public school education. Between nervous science presentations, a lack of resources, a plethora of heckling cool kids and 13 years of humorless math teachers, I certainly managed to fly under the radar. Writing and Lit were the only 2 subjects where I wasn’t average in every way. I can’t help thinking I might’ve been a different person if my...
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Defending the Normals
In a city rich with the history of the Beats, the Civil Rights movement, and the dot com boom and bust (and subsequent boom and bust), thousands of hardcore geeks, crunchy activists and tattooed intellectuals share a 7X7 grid and the common ailment of what other cities would consider Peter Pan syndrome. San Francisco is finally my home, but it took a year to meet the friends I love and find my...
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NPO Space: The Lovers
You know how it takes a village to raise a child? Well, it took a virtual village to write my recent Mashable article.
I just thought it would be incredibly unethical to be sloppy about researching overseas aid organizations given the fact that some very caring people are hopefully going to get involved in some of the overseas work I’ve highlighted. Below is a list of my experts and gurus:
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BC Political System: Choosing a Leader
I’m in Canada right now, and the BC Provincial democrats put up Carole James as their leader again. For God’s sakes guys, get it together.
I’ve worked for the Provincial government during an election. Seventy per cent of voters cast their ballots according to their favorite party. An additional fifteen per cent vote based on a single issue, and the remainder actually scrutinize...
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Legacy Journalism Trumps Online? Rly?
The head of my old PR Department just emailed me this story about how traditional media has the edge over citizen journalism - written by a traditional journalist. Here’s some info the Pew Foundation’s Project for Excellence in Journalism found after surveying 145 citizen and 218 “legacy” news sites in 46 U.S. markets: - Citizen sites are twice as likely to link to...