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My picks for #sundayread for Oct. 18, 2015:

• Y’all Connect: Kerry O’Shea Gorgone on livestreaming apps
• Is this 8-year-old girl’s newspaper better than yours? By @JoePompeo
• Chapter excerpt from “My Unsentimental Education” by Debra Monroe (via @TheLeanLab)
• ★★★★½ … Reviews for “The Future of Birmingham” are terrific!
• This art forger donated pieces to 50+ museums (incl. @bhammuseum), by Alec Wilkinson
• Nietzsche on Journey of Becoming, What It Means to Be a Free Spirit, by @brainpicker
• Y’all Connect: David Wilson on determining your company’s value proposition
• Study: Many Psychology Findings Not as Strong as Claimed, by @BenCareyNYT
• Chapter excerpt from “Voices from Chernobyl” by Svetlana Alexievich (h/t @BooksLIVESA)
• Marketers, what’s fun about what you do?
• Ermahgerddon: The Untold Story of the Ermahgerd Girl, by @DarrynKing
• How the Violence Began, by Ashley B.
• The Fake Traffic Schemes That Are Rotting the Internet
• “Netflix and chill,” the complete history of a viral sex catchphrase, by @KevinRoose

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: It’s nice to have filmed you in …

The latest #sundayread tweets

#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for Oct. 11, 2015:

• Wade on Birmingham’s 10th anniversary
• What happened when 7 news sites got rid of reader comments by Justin Ellis @JustinNXT
• Banned Books Week is a crock / No, it isn’t
• Sponsoring Y’all Connect in 2016
• Music education out of tune with how kids learn by @SarahDerbyshire (via @soundandmusic)
• 8 Steps to Getting What You Want … Without Formal Credentials, by @MichaelEllsberg
• My book The Future of Birmingham: Ebook | From Amazon
• From Jamaica to Minnesota to Myself, by @MarlonJames5 (RT @AfrikaReads)
• Why I’ve Stolen 1000+ Menus & What They Teach Us About Cleveland Cuisine by @DougTrattner
• Flashback: Content Curation for Smarties
• Full digital archive of National Lampoon magazine, 1970-1998
• Your Guide to Dieselgate: Volkswagen’s Diesel Cheating Catastrophe by @byPatrickGeorge
• Gun violence costs America $229 billion a year, $700+ for every man, woman and child
• A teacher, a student and a 39-year-long lesson in forgiveness, by @THallmanJr

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More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: A seasonal shift in song
• Blogging for collegians 2015

The latest #sundayread tweets

#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

Win a signed copy of ‘The Future of Birmingham’!

It’s my blog’s 10th anniversary … would you like my autograph?

Today marks 10 years of reports, essays, photos, videos, haiku and hijinks for Wade on Birmingham. It’s also the final day of our 26-part special report, The Future of Birmingham.

You may have read the essays from me and our 20 contributors. You may have downloaded the free ebook.

“The Future of Birmingham” is available on Amazon as a paperback book and a Kindle edition. Grab a copy for your coffee table ($14.99) or your e-reader ($2.99).

Want to win an autographed copy of my new book? Just leave a review on the Amazon book page by 5 p.m. CDT Friday, Oct. 9. Praise it or pan it, but make sure to review it. (And use your real name, so I can contact you when you win.)

And if you haven’t looked at it yet, read all 26 parts on this site or download the free ebook.

Thank you to all of our friends, our readers, our fans, our commenters and our contributors over the years!

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First, second, third, fourth, fifth, eighth and ninth anniversary posts.

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My picks for #sundayread for Oct. 4, 2015:

• The Future of Birmingham: Strong Leadership #bham #futureofbham
• Rise of Next-Pats: How tech helps us live global lives by @scurtsy (via @BillDiscount)
• Y’all Connect: Shaun King on deeper connections with your social media audience
• Mystery of Mingering Mike, soul legend who never existed by @JonRonson (via @majikwah)
• 400 posts and counting on the Birmingham Blogging Academy blog
• Design Meets Production: 2 Minds Are Better than 1, by @ShelaghPS (via @GreenhouseAds)
• Wade’s 101: Haiku retrospective 36 #haiku
• On the Pleasures of Not Reading, by @DanPiepenbring (via @glennybrock)
• Flashback: Bham mayor has left Alabama more times than Obama has traveled abroad
• Decoding the Southern belle, by Cintra Wilson @xintra
• Stealing Jokes Is Big Biz on Internet. The Thieves Aren’t Ashamed. By @AmandaHess
• Broke, by Spencer Hall @edsbs
• CIA’s profiles of dictators, by Dave Gilson @daudig (RT @majikwah)
• Excerpt from Bill Bryson’s “A Walk in the Woods” (h/t @BooksLIVESA)

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More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Flights of fancy

The latest #sundayread tweets

#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

Photo: Ze’ev Barkan (CC)

My picks for #sundayread for Sept. 27, 2015:

• The Future of Birmingham: Big ideas, photo essay by @hughbudhunter #futureofbham #bham
• A Humble Pope @Pontifex, Challenging the World, by @JimBYardley (via @aneebsharif)
• How Are Great-Grandkids of Richest Gilded-Age Americans Faring? By @shorterstory (RT @vsisson13)
• Y’all Connect: Laura Creekmore on building better content
• Interview with a founder of Bottletree & artist Merrilee Challiss, by @BDMccarley1
• Stop and seize: Aggressive police take hundreds of millions from motorists not charged w/ crimes
• The Future of Birmingham: A media wasteland #futureofbham #bham
• The Myth of Authentic Travel, by David Sze @Davadin (RT @AfrikaReads)
• Flashback: From 3 years ago, review of the biography “Steve Jobs”
• What your future employees need to know about blogging
• Network TV’s Ultimate Survivor Les Moonves, by Joe Adalian @TVMoJoe
• From 2010, Blueprint Birmingham: A look at the City of 2015
• 12 cognitive biases preventing you from being rational by George @Dvorsky (RT @SMTuffy)
• I love the Victorian era. So I decided to live in it. By Sarah A. Chrisman (RT ‏@pinxy)

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Don’t miss our new 26-part series:
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More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Small lives matter

The latest #sundayread tweets

#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for Sept. 20, 2015:

• The Future of Birmingham Is Compassion, by @JoeyKennedy #futureofbham #bham
• Growing Up Black, Female Meant Depression Was Forbidden, by Margo Jefferson (RT @ColumbiaSchArts)
• 7 hard-won lessons from creating my latest blog series and ebook
• The birth and evolution of the bicycle, by @AlexQArbuckle (via @PamelaWilton)
• The Future of Birmingham: a special Wade’s 101 #futureofbham #bham
• The Meaning of Serena Williams, by Claudia Rankine (RT @ColumbiaSchArts)
• Kary Delaria on the secrets of social selling
• The Timothy Hunt Witch Hunt, by @JonEForeman (via @KipkemboiKoech)
• My Life as a Telepresence Robot, by @EmilyDreyfuss (via @kickpointinc)
• They Pretend to Be Us While Pretending We Don’t Exist, by @Jennybagel (RT @KateBomz)

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More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Their causes and ours

The latest #sundayread tweets

#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for Sept. 13, 2015:

• The Future of Birmingham Is Pride, by @jfaustin, part 3 of 26 #futureofbham
• The Myth of Quality Time, by @FrankBruni (RT @rescuetime)
• Y’all Connect: The way to top-of-mind presence
• Dora Charles Moves on from Paula Deen, by @KimSeverson
• My new series/ebook “The Future of Birmingham” is free: http://itswa.de/futureofbham #futureofbham
• “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” marks end of an era for TV animation, by @timoneil5000
• Flashback: From 2012: Tuscaloosa woman held captive 70 days and counting
• Millennials Are Out-Reading Older Generations, by @AdrienneLaF (RT @melaniesiow)
• Virtual delegation and the speaking tour
• The Dubious, Brand-Led Surge of Fake National Holidays, by @JuliaRubin (RT ‏@kickpointinc)
• Flashback: From 2009: Happy trails, “King of the Hill”
• Katrina, 10 years later: The Yellow House, by @SarahMBroom (RT @melaniesiow)
• DC domestic violence survivors’ affordable housing crunch, by @mhbaskin (via @AndrewGiambrone)
• Sabbath, by Oliver Sacks (RT @ColumbiaSchArts)

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More posts from Wade this week:

• Happy Labor Day!

The latest #sundayread tweets

#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

Video: The origin of Labor Day

Happy Labor Day!

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My picks for #sundayread for Sept. 6, 2015:

• Blogging fear: Looking stupid / writer’s block
• Stephen Colbert, the Late Night Hope, by Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff
• The Truth of “Black Lives Matter”
• Flashback: Birmingham’s Best Eats: Three lessons from the series #bham
• Librarians on Bikes Deliver Books, WiFi to Kids in “Book Deserts,” by @UrbanMuseWriter
• How I Earned $4,500 in 2 Days from One Blog Post and One Email, by @PeterShankman
• Apply now to be the #yallconnect Volunteer Coordinator
• Secret history of “Y’all”: Origins of legendary Southern slang, by @CameronMcNabb
• Butter in Coffee & Other Cons: Tales from Fitness Insider, by @DickTalens (via @sthig)
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – The story of a city continues
• Why Scandinavian children’s books have no taboos, by Ingelin Røssland @ringelin
• Neb. gave post-Katrina start to family. They need rescue again. By @EliSaslow (via @nelson_aj)
• Bart Starr’s drive to honor fellow Packer great Brett Favre, by @Ian_OConnor #bham
• The Late, Great Stephen Colbert, by Joel Lovell @lovelljoel

The latest #sundayread tweets

#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for Aug. 30, 2015:

• Flashback: A year ago, I gave up football. Giving up crimson
• The Coddling of the American Mind (via ‏@LGallitz)
• Wendell Berry: The Pleasures of Eating (RT @SignpostsJwM)
• Y’all Connect: Bloggers share lessons from 2015 conference, part 2
• Libraries on the front lines of the homelessness crisis in the United States
• The Simple Numbers That Could Change How You Hire (RT @luthermarius)
• Blogging fear: Getting started
• Are libraries re-making themselves? By @FallowsDeb (RT @gsisson64)
• What it’s like to actually eat the food in Detroit’s Oakland County Jail
• Flashback: On Katrina 10 years later. My love affair with New Orleans
• 25 years ago, “Pump Up the Volume” and the birth of podcasting, by Ron Hart
• Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace
• Science Isn’t Broken — Science Is Hard, by @cragcrest (RT @RafMBatista)
• Wonderfully Weird Southern Town Names, by @HeatherRichie (via @pinxy)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: An august showing

The latest #sundayread tweets

#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for Aug. 23, 2015:

• Y’all Connect: Bloggers share lessons from 2015 conference, part 1
• The Singular Mind of Terry Tao, by Gareth Cook @GarethIdeas (RT @luthermarius)
• A Birmingham Reading List
• How I’m listening to improve my communication: An update
• Writers: Stop reading, start writing.
• Why Does the National Enquirer Suck at the Internet? By @MikeLeePearl
• Flashback: Adding video easily into WordPress posts (and pages)
• Trades, movement hard on baseball families, by Zach Buchanan @azc_zachb
• The Lions of Street Food, by Matt Goulding @mdgoulding (RT @robertgor17)
• Flashback: Tuscaloosa’s Deontay Wilder wins bronze medal in boxing at 2008 Olympics
• How the Muppets created Generation X, by @ElizHydeStevens
• Exclusion of Blacks From Juries Raises Renewed Scrutiny by @AdamLiptak (RT @vsisson13)
• River of Booze: Inside college town’s embrace of drinking, by @karinfischer & @erichoov
• When Two Decide to Live Together and Combine Bookshelves, by @AlexanderChee

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: The heat is on

The latest #sundayread tweets

#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for Aug. 16, 2015:

• Addictive content
• The Slate interview with Camille Paglia, by @DaveDaley3: http://bit.ly/1PssSJQ / http://bit.ly/1gLjeWv
• Alabama poet laureate Andrew Glaze and his new book, by @RachelOLindley //Signing at 3
• Flashback: Vote 2007: Mayoral forum on homelessness
• The Web We Have to Save, by Hossein Derakhshan @h0d3r (via @GreenhouseAds)
• How a Law Banning Ethnic Studies Led to Its Rise, by @WestonPhippen (via @actarc)
• Y’all Connect: Gender Avenger Hall of Fame, 2 years in a row
• 10 books that changed the world (h/t @jornalistavitor)
• Year of Racial Tumult Brings Lessons, Risks to Classroom by @DanBerrett (via @pimatweets)
• Flashback: Southern Progress: 41.4 percent staff reduction in 11 months
• How to Get Your Self-Published Book in Bookstores, by Carrie Rollwagen @crollwagen
• The Man Who Shot Michael Brown, by Jake Halpern (via @melaniesiow)
• 35 Women Tell Their Stories About Assault by Bill Cosby & the Culture That Wouldn’t Listen
• 14 tips on practical dating from my grandmother, by @CharleeDyroff (via @priyankasabarwa)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Songs of summer

The latest #sundayread tweets

#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for Aug. 9, 2015:

• Y’all Connect: The strength of blogging is community
• Inspiring travel books that could change your life, by @LanceRichardson (RT @kali_studio)
• As Diverse a Conference Lineup as Fans Deserve: Wade Kwon at Y’all Connect
• Barbara Ehrenreich, On Americans (Not) Getting By (Again)
• Books: Excerpt from Emily Brown’s @thechubbybird “Birmingham Food: A Magic City Menu”
• Something You Can Use: Writer’s Self-Healing Wound by Philip Graham (via @BooksLIVESA)
• The lines of communication
• A Kiss Deferred by Civil War, by Nikolina Kulidzan (RT @isalara)
• Flashback: 2 years ago, “Bizarre Foods America” airs Birmingham episode
• Case Studies: How to Make $1 Million Selling E-Books, by Ryan Buckley @rbucks
• “Kids”: Oral History of Most Controversial Film of ’90s, compiled by Eric Hynes @eshynes
• The Last Days of Daniel Linsinbigler, by @SusanEastman
• Liberal Arts Degree: Tech’s Hottest Ticket, by @GeorgeAnders (via @pimatweets)
• Playboy Interview: Stephen Colbert, by @EricSpitznagel

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: With the windows rolled down

The latest #sundayread tweets

#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for Aug. 2, 2015:

• Y’all Connect: Download our 2015 photo app for free
• These One-Person Businesses Have Cracked $1 Million by @ElainePofeldt (RT @tferriss)
• A Manhattan McDonald’s With Many Off-Menu Sales, by @Kim_Barker (RT @MrEddieHuang)
• Flashback: 4 years ago, Wade’s 101: Haiku retrospective 21
• Recommended books on leadership by female authors, by Kimberly A. White @whiteoi
• Poet Claudia Rankine: “Invisibility of black women astounding,” by @CocozzaPaula (via @ColumbiaSchArts)
• How to make an awesome slide deck, and why you don’t need it
• The Evolving Role of News on Twitter and Facebook (RT @spann)
• The Girl Who Survived The Brain-Eating Amoeba, by Peter Andrey Smith @PeterSm_th
• Books: Excerpt from Carla Jean Whitley’s @inkstainedlife “Birmingham Beer” 🍺
• The Original Ghostwriter Behind Nancy Drew, by Marissa Visci
• The Immigrant Families in Limbo, by @JeffreyToobin (via @melaniesiow)
• Excerpt from @TaNehisiCoates’ “Between the World and Me” (RT @BooksLIVESA)
• Why porn stars are so much better than you on Twitter, by @Kelsey_ML (RT @bsgpr)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Such sights to behold

The latest #sundayread tweets

#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for July 26, 2015:

• Y’all Connect: Your brand’s story isn’t looney enough
• The Hard Truths of @TaNehisiCoates, by @BenWallaceWells (via @nbj914)
• The Lost Girls: 1 famous band. 1 huge secret. Many lives destroyed. By @JasonCherkis
• Flashback: RIP Jefferson County, Ala., 1819-2009
• @WhitlockJason and “Black Grantland”: By @GregHoward88 / By @ReevesWiedeman
• American recycling is stalling, and profits are falling, by @byAaronCDavis
• Getting the brand back together
• State of the First Amendment 2015 from the @NewseumInst [PDF]
• The cult of Vice: Inside the media brand darling, by @ChrisIptw
• Flashback: Five ways to jump-start your job search with social networking
• Books: Excerpt from @BlakeElls’ “The Muscle Shoals Legacy of FAME”
• How a MS county bet on gambling, won big $$, still lost, by @ChicoHarlan (via @nelson_aj)
• Everything you think you know about disciplining kids is wrong, by @KatherineLewis
• Screen Addiction Is Taking a Toll on Children, by Jane E. Brody

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: True heritage

The latest #sundayread tweets

#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me