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My picks for #sundayread for April 26, 2015:

• Blogging fear: Topics worth reading
• My Alzheimer’s Nightmare and America’s Imminent Calamity, by @tifflstanley
• Doughnuts, Cambodians and the American dream, by @reechardparks
• Wade on Birmingham – “The Great Invisible,” 5 years after the BP oil spill
• David Letterman: A dethroned king of comedy, by @weinmanj (via @MoRyan)
• Can You Be a Waitress and a Feminist? By @BrittanyBronso1 (RT @guevara_mri)
• Y’all Connect: Mack Collier on the blogging basics
• 10,000 Hours with @ReidHoffman: What @BenCasnocha Learned (RT @tferriss)
• Trash Food, by @Chris_Offutt
• Flashback: Project Bulk – Day 238: Lean out
• The Man Who Makes the World’s Funniest People Even Funnier, by @JonahWeiner
• The Secret Casualties of Iraq’s Abandoned Chemical Weapons, by @CJChivers
• The Trans-Everything CEO, Martine Rothblatt, by @lisaxmiller
• Funny drawings from “Doodle Diary of a New Mom” by @lucyspictures

More posts from Wade this week:

• Noah Galloway, wet and wild on Week 6 of “Dancing with the Stars”
• The Birmingham channel: From the outside

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My picks for #sundayread for April 19, 2015:

• Y’all Connect: We want you onstage: Tell us about your successful digital campaign
• Hoda, 20, from Birmingham, runs away to Syria to join ISIS, by @EllieVHall
• Birmingham Oddities: new shop offers “thrill of the find,” by @JesseChambers
• Noah Galloway does Disney on Week 5 of “Dancing with the Stars”
• The terrible and wonderful reasons why I run long distances by Matthew Inman @Oatmeal
• Birmingham’s Lonnie Holley, the Insider’s Outsider, by Mark Binelli
• Flashback: The personal touch on LinkedIn
• Q&A with animator @DonHertzfeldt, by Alex McCown @alexm247
• An oral history of “Airplane!” compiled by Will Harris @NonStopPop
• Flashback: Project Bulk – Day 231: Shaken and stirred
• HBO’s quest to win the streaming wars, by @NicoleLaPorte1
• 5 years after Deepwater Horizon: How the secrets were spilled, by @BenHRaines
• The Radical Vision of Toni Morrison, by Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah (via @harnischfound)
• The Letterman Years: Behind Scenes of Show That Changed Comedy Forever by @truprecht

More posts from Wade this week:

• Buy the book: Part 3, ‘Antiques Roadshow’ in Birmingham
• The Birmingham channel: Night of a thousand stars

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My picks for #sundayread for April 12, 2015:

• Y’all Connect: Our first two speakers of 2015 are …
• 6 questions about blogging with upcoming Rocket City Bloggers speaker Wade Kwon
• CJR Report on Rolling Stone’s Rape Story Bad for Journalism, by @cshirky (RT @nelson_aj)
• Noah Galloway shares a soldier’s story on Week 4 of “Dancing with the Stars”
• NYT reviews book by that towering embarrassment to it, Judith Miller (RT @jayrosen_nyu)
• Inside Story of Civil War for Soul of NBC News, by @BryanBurrough (via @brianstelter)
• Craft Content Nashville presentation: Super Easy Guide to Video for Content Marketing
• That time Salman Rushdie let loose on fellow authors on Goodreads … by @SerinaSandhu1
• The 10 Commandments of Sushi, by @tjdnewyork (via @legalnomads)
• Flashback: Project Bulk – Day 224: Close call
• What Part of “No, Totally” Don’t You Understand? By @KathrynSchulz (RT @karlakho)
• Inside America toughest federal prison, by Mark Binelli (RT @ItsKev7)
• Success Academy Charter Schools, High Scores & Polarizing Tactics, by @KateTaylorNYT
• An oral history of “Weird Al” Yankovic’s “UHF,” compiled by @SeanONeal

More posts from Wade this week:

• Speaking gigs: Craft Content Nashville, April 2015
• Object lesson: More “Antiques Roadshow” in Birmingham
• The Birmingham channel: Busting out for spring
• Happy Easter!

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My picks for #sundayread for April 5, 2015:

• No links, no style, no service
• The Psychological Price of Entrepreneurship, by @JessBruder (RT @ockenrock)
• Y’all Connect: Alabama Power: Once, twice, three times a sponsor
• On 10th anniversary of “The Office” (US), an oral history of “Diversity Day”
• Speaking gigs: Rocket City Bloggers, April 2015
• The weird world of Yahoo News, by @lehmannchris
• Tango time for Noah Galloway on Week 3 of “Dancing with the Stars”
• JOURNALISM: @RollingStone and UVA: The @ColumbiaJourn Report on “A Rape on Campus”
• Fugitives escape justice by crossing state lines, by @BradHeath //Full series
• Open Cases: Why 1/3 of US Murders Go Unresolved, by @MartinKaste (via @NPRinskeep)
• The Perfect Birth Control for Men Is Here. Why Can’t We Use It? By @Arikia Millikan

More posts from Wade this week:

• Where the old things are: “Antiques Roadshow” in Birmingham
• The Birmingham channel: The show on the road

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• More #sundayread recommendations from me

Video: Hidden Peeps wins the Washington Post’s
2015 Peeps Diorama Contest.

Happy Easter, y’all!

See the finalists and runners-up in the Washington Post’s Top 50 Peeps Show dioramas for 2015 gallery.

Video: “Call of Booty” pays tribute to Kim Kardashian’s
Paper magazine cover.

“Je Suis Peep” brings together hundreds of Peeps
for this ode to French solidarity.

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My picks for #sundayread for March 29, 2015:

• Birmingham Bloggers presentation: The art of the brand
• Metro #Bham school libraries struggle as state funding shrinks, by Michelle Love
• Country-western samba for Noah Galloway on Week 2 of “Dancing with the Stars”
• “Lost” writer Javier Grillo-Marxuach @okbjgm on his 2-year show stint
• A communications gap
• The Hidden Costs That Engineers Ignore, by @EdmondLau (RT @eduardosasso)
• Books: Excerpt from Amber Benson’s “The Witches of Echo Park”
• “Slap Shot” had nothing on the Birmingham Bulls, by Evan Weiner
• Flashback: Project Bulk – Day 211: I’m your density
• Flashback: Y’all Connect: On “The SociaLight Show”
• NewsRadio: ’90s best sitcom by @tvoti: / 10 eps by @midwestspitfire
• The Architect Who Wants to Redesign Being Dead, by Brendan Kiley (RT @struppj)
• A language dies about every 4 months, by Judith Thurman
• Porntopia: A trip to the Adult Video News Awards, by @MollyLambert

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Everywhere you look

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My picks for #sundayread for March 22, 2015:

• Speaking gigs: Birmingham Bloggers, March 2015
• How loud must UAB yell to be heard? By Kyle Whitmire @warondumb
• NY firefighters: 10,000+ men, 1 woman and 1 self-identified “trans,” by @IreneCNwoye
• Flashback: Project Bulk – Day 203: The first 200 days are always the bulkiest
• Disney’s $1 Billion Bet on a Magical Wristband, by @CliffKuang
• Way More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About “Animaniacs,” by Rob Lammle @SpaceMonkeyX
• Flashback: Y’all Connect: Put a chimp on it
• Q&A with comedian/actor @PattonOswalt, by David Daley
• How Video Game Breasts Are Made (and Why They Can Go Wrong), by @xpatriciah
• Noah Galloway tries cha cha on Week 1 of “Dancing with the Stars”
• How “South Park” Was Born: Oral History of “The Spirit of Christmas” by @JamesHibberd
• Former AL Supreme Court Chief Justice Sue Bell Cobb @JudgeCobb on money in politics
• Why we pretend opinions are equal, & the ramifications by @ChrisCMooney (via @struppj)
• @MrJonCryer on Inside, Insane Account of Charlie Sheen’s Infamous Meltdown

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: What so proudly we hail

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My picks for #sundayread for March 15, 2015:

• Y’all Connect: Fixing the unfortunate habits of professional speakers
• Washington Post’s @comicriffs interviews “Calvin and Hobbes” creator Bill Watterson
• (Actually) True War Stories at NBC News, by @GabrielSherman
• Wade’s 101: Haiku retrospective 34
• 25 Life-Changing Style Charts Every Guy Needs, by Julie Gerstein @havethehabit
• The Internet shaming of Lindsey Stone, by @JonRonson (RT @MereCummings)
• Blogging fear: Reaching the end
• Twisted History of Board Game Monopoly: @JessicaGross talks with @MaryPilon
• Beyond Potstickers: Around the World in Dumplings, by J. Kenji López-Alt @TheFoodLab
• Flashback: Project Bulk – Day 197: That annoying guy
• Billy Wisse, head writer for “Jeopardy!” on the art of writing clues, by @alexm247
• Terrible loneliness of growing up poor in @RobertDPutnam’s America, by @EmilyMBadger
• Profile of @AmberVenzBox of rewardStyle, by @FrancescaMari
• Adult Swim: How to Run a Creative Hothouse, by @JohnJurg

More posts from Wade this week:

• Y’all Connect: Shout out to Viewtopia Pictures
• The Birmingham channel: Like a warm wind blowin’

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My picks for #sundayread for March 8, 2015:

• 67 reasons guests give to attend Y’all Connect
• Gay Talese returns to Selma, a place “none of us can quite escape”
• Virginia Woolf on Writing and Self-Doubt, by Maria Popova @brainpicker
• Workshop in Huntsville on April 25 — you pick the topic
• A Chinese book tour, with Peter Hessler and his censor
• What Netflix Can Teach Content Marketers, by @TheCoolestCool (via @MrBenites)
• David Foster Wallace and the Nature of Fact, by @JoshRoiland
• The Dark Side of Caffeine, by Murray Carpenter @Murray_journo
• Flashback: Project Bulk: Day 189: I can see clearly now
• My first garden
• @sistaelaine, the Woman Who Led the Black Panthers (via @wordpressdotcom)
• Scientists to edit DNA of tomorrow’s babies. Should they? By @AntonioRegalado
• Utah’s shockingly simple, cost-effective way to end homelessness, by Scott Carrier
• Cover to Cover, by @TomGauld

More posts from Wade this week:

• Options to see Y’all Connect 2015 on video
• The Birmingham channel: Kids, cars and causes

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My picks for #sundayread for March 1, 2015:

• Y’all Connect: All you need to know for 2015
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has No Interest in Retiring, by @nytimescollins (via @vsisson13)
• Amazon won the book war. What’s next? By @CaseyNewton (via @BooksLIVESA)
• Workshop on March 25, but what to discuss?
• What is dark is not empty; a True Picture of Black Skin, by @TejuCole (RT @KateBomz)
• @PeterLik’s Road to Success: Sell Prints. Print $$. By David Segal (via @WorldPhotoOrg)
• Flashback: Project Bulk – Month 18: Paint by numbers
• 14 Books on Psychology, Philosophy and How to Live Meaningfully, by @brainpicker
• Tilapia, cheap to farm, not nearly as healthy as other fish: by @nytrosenthal
• How blogger @MrMoneyMustache retired at 30, by Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka
• What Really Happened To The Cars From “Pimp My Ride,” by @ToddVanLuling
• Hunting the silent killer, Hepatitis C, by @PatrickStrud (RT @mosaicscience)
• Prison rape and the risk to teenage cons, by @MauriceChammah (via @sdmattpotter)
• @JulienneGrey on loving and losing her mother (RT @BinderCon)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: On their toes
• Y’all Connect 2015: The date, the place, the tickets

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My picks for #sundayread for Feb. 22, 2015:

• Blogging fear: Not enough eyeballs
• What ISIS Really Wants, by Graeme Wood @gcaw
• How a manuscript’s discovery became Harper Lee’s “new” novel, by @NeelyTucker
• Y’all Connect: Save the date! And the place!
• 30 Seasons of “Survivor”: An Oral History of the Reality Show That Changed the Game
• Is crime dangerous in Birmingham? Numbers vs. perception. By @NPFreelance #bham
• Flashback: Project Bulk – Day 175: The myth that is the Nutrition Facts label
• The Hidden Story of Harley Quinn, by @abrahamjoseph
• How to Stop Time, by @AnnaDella Subin (RT @amazemeet)
• The Art of Authenticity: A Conversation with @Postsecret’s Frank Warren, by @benzbox

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: To be the best

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• Currently reading “To Sell Is Human” by @DanielPink [aff. link]
• A bad tweet can lead to online lynch mob. Does punishment fit crime? By @JonRonson
• Blogging fear: Publishing false info
• Celebrating “Saturday Night Live” at 40 through sketches, by Alan @Sepinwall
• Y’all Connect: Jen Barnett on social media marketing mastery
• The invisible network that keeps the world running by @TimMaughan (RT @bhatnaturally)
• Flashback: Project Bulk – Day 168: Less is … the same
• 10 Years of Google Maps, From Slashdot to Ground Truth, by @LizGannes
• Birmingham hits the polls to decide on a property tax
• How The New York Times Works, by @ReevesWiedeman
• Ranking the other 11 sitcoms of NBC’s Must-See TV heyday, by @Dave_Nemetz
• Inside the Barista Class, by Molly Osberg @molly__o (via @JulienLynn)
• The Dark Science of Interrogation, by @DrakePBennett (RT @Merimack1)
• An inspirational Q&A with @TerryCrews on Reddit

More posts from Wade this week:

• Happy Valentine’s Day!
• The Birmingham channel: On the map

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Video: Tiny Hamster goes on a date.

Happy Valentine’s Day, y’all!

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My picks for #sundayread for Feb. 8, 2015:

• On “Our Mockingbird,” and a Harper Lee sequel novel
• Husband’s salary makes life easier for @AnnBauerWriter. On patronage and writing
• Bryan Stevenson: “America’s Mandela,” a book excerpt (RT @Jay_Reeves)
• Y’all Connect: New books from speakers: The real you, plus zombies
• The 20 Most Satisfying Kisses in TV History, by Joanna Robinson @jowrotethis
• A Normal Day in the Unusual Life of Michael Keaton, by Tom Chiarella @Chiareality
• What’s your biggest fear in blogging?
• How to read like a writer, by Maria Popova @brainpicker
• Vulture ranks all 121 Billy Joel songs, by @heybonanos
• Flashback: Project Bulk – Day 162: Where does it end?
• Oral History of “The Facts of Life,” compiled by Will Harris @nonstoppop
• The Kill Team: How US Soldiers in Afghanistan Murdered Innocent Civilians by @MarkBoal
• These Guys See Hundreds of Millions in Nike Resale Profit by @LisaEChow (via @ramit)
• My neighborhood revolution, one letter at a time, by @dwatkinsworld

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Half the city

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My picks for #sundayread for Feb. 1, 2015:

• Y’all Connect: Stalking the storytellers
• Unusual Books That Shaped Billionaires, Best-Selling Authors, Prodigies, by @TFerriss
• RT @martibk: faulkner.
• Flashback: Snowpocalypse 2014, as seen in Alabama newspapers’ front pages
• This promotion can net 6,000 subscribers in 1 month, by @WillHoekenga (via @MariSmith)
• The Rapid Evolution of Emoji, a Wordless Tongue by Adam @Sternbergh (via @BooksLIVESA)
• The great Twitter cleanup
• Birmingham Library to hold Local Authors Expo Saturday #bham
• @JillStanek recommends following Jon Winokur @AdviceToWriters for great writing tips.
• Flashback: Project Bulk – Month 17: What I’ve lost
• Happy Crappy: Guide to Writing the Music on “Bob’s Burgers,” by @EricThurm
• Why Mississippi leads nation in child vaccination by @tcfrankel (via @charlesornstein)
• Death of a Family Farm, by @KristinaJ26 (via @AJConnolly1)
• 101 Masterpieces: “The Twilight Zone,” by Jake Rossen (RT @crewless)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: The world is watching

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