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My picks for #sundayread for April 16, 2017:

• Bentley out, Ivey in: newspaper front pages:
• 1930s were humanity’s darkest hour. Are we paying attention? By @Freedland (RT @brentcalvert)
• Y’all Connect: Alabama Power returns as four-time sponsor
• Against Their Will: 2002 series on North Carolina’s 44-year sterilization program
• Top reads of 2016 chosen by influential leaders, compiled by @AlexLGray (via @Tami_Mix)
• Gov. Bentley resigns in disgrace
• Inside the Illuminati with Rosie Kay & Adam Curtis, by @JudithMackrell (via @ace_thenorth)
• Door-Busting Drug Raids Leave Trail of Blood, by Kevin Sack @ksacknyt (via @LissomeLight)
• “I am not giving up on finding my son.” By @NathanFenno (via @BlaireBitchproj)
• Changing donor perceptions about not-for-profit efficiency (via @BGCyvr)

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• Happy Easter!
• The Birmingham channel: Who’s the boss?

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My picks for #sundayread for April 9, 2017:

• Blogging: New angles for old topics
• How Did Amazon End Up as Literary Enemy No. 1? By @KeithGessen
• Why Is Silicon Valley So Awful to Women? By @LizaMundy (RT @triketora)
• Y’all Connect: Crunching the numbers on storytelling
• Anti-doxing strategy, or how to avoid 50 Qurans & $287 of Chick-fil-A, by @NathanMattise
• Defoe and the Distance to Utopia, by J.H. Pearl @jasoninmia
• Flashback: Y’all Connect: The best sources of inspiration for our storytelling
• The Vivid Violence and Divine Healing of Ex-Voto Paintings, by @AllisonCMeier
• How to Uphold White Supremacy by Focusing on Diversity and Inclusion, by @thekyriarchy
• The Absolutely Essential Social Media Tools: What you said
• Biggest threat to middle-age men isn’t smoking, obesity. It’s loneliness. By @Billy_Baker
• The harrowing story of life inside Alabama’s most sadistic Christian bootcamp, by @ArtL7
• OxyContin goes global — “We’re only just getting started”
• How @AmandaMWhiting Learned to Stop Hating the Things She Never Used (via @struppj)

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• The Birmingham channel: The meter’s running

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My picks for #sundayread for April 2, 2017:

• Blue is the coldest color
• A look inside the violent, grueling lives of Alabama prison guards, by @ConnorASheets
• Inside Sears’ death spiral: Iconic brand on edge of bankruptcy by @hcpeterson (via @vsisson13)
• Y’all Connect: Mailbag: Why come back for #yallconnect?
• The profile of a master book-mender, one of the last, by @kljohnso (RT @pensandjunk)
• Finding equality and equanimity at the Golden Temple in Amritsar, by @JonFuhrmann
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – Springtime in Birmingham
• Newsroom diversity over the decades, by Paul Delaney (via @ARA_Network)
• What It’s Like to Lose Your Short-Term Memory, by @xtinehlee
• Flashback: New Orleans: Pins and needles
• Viola Davis’ Call to Adventure, by @JohnLahrwriter (via @jiatolentino)
• How the Twinkie Made Superrich Even Richer, by @mcorkery5, @benprotess (via @bastimori)
• All 216 heroin-related 2015 deaths in one Florida county, by Pat @Beall1
• Why the Founder of Hollywood’s Most Elite Sex Club Is So Damn Unhappy by @therealsager

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• The Birmingham channel: The CrossPlex games
• Video: Are you a socially savvy real estate agent?

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My picks for #sundayread for March 26, 2017:

• Y’all Connect: The formulas for storytelling in marketing, with beautiful examples
• Google, democracy & truth about internet search, by @CaroleCadwalla dr (RT @MariaLNunez)
• Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds, by @ElizKolbert (via @AntoLeonard)
• Determining the right social networks for marketing
• Modern World Tugs at Indonesian Tribe Clinging to Ancient Ways (RT @the59thStBridge)
• 5 Scientists on the Heroes Who Changed Their Lives (via @RhonaA_PhD)
• Flashback: 129 more reasons guests give to attend Y’all Connect
• The Great AI Awakening, by Gideon Lewis-Kraus (via @PatrickZuest)
• @NolanBushnell’s Visionary 1980s Tech Incubator, by @BenjEdwards (via @TheSanctuaryYGK)
• Flashback: Two hundred. And one.
• In Winston Co., Ala., support for Trump followed ancient pattern (via @edsbs) #alpolitics
• How to Hide $400 Million, by @NickConfessore (via @githu__)
• Trump, Putin and the New Cold War (via @OlafSteenfadt)
• Discreet, disorienting passions of Victorian era by @DeborahACohen (via @BaxterSally)

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• The Birmingham channel: In honor of portrait mode

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My picks for #sundayread for March 19, 2017:

• Spring cleaning for sites and blogs
• After Irondale toddler kills sister, a family’s pain by @Terrence_McCoy (via @vsisson13)
• “Gun for hire”: How Jeff Sessions used his prosecuting power to target Democrats
• Y’all Connect: Spring cleaning for social media
• My Post-Herald colleague @DanielConnolly’s new book, “The Book of Isaias”
• When the National Bird Is a Burden, by @Wyatt_Williams
• Flashback: The cult of Whole Foods
• Sean Dietrich @igobarefoot’s everyday heroes on Sean of the South blog by @Michelle_Mobile
• Weight Watchers Revamps Its Magic Formula, by @JeffreyOBrien
• Flashback: Models, Inc.: Face off, recap from “America’s Next Top Model” season 8
• How Sportswriting Became a Liberal Profession, by @BryanCurtis
• The Muslims of Cuba, by Sylvia Hines @syhines (RT @JHJournal)
• How do we restore consensus in an age so divorced from fact? By @MariaBustillos
• Virtual Utopia: How disabled, elderly have amazing lives in Second Life (via @470media)

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• The Birmingham channel: The nose knows

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My picks for #sundayread for March 12, 2017:

• Y’all Connect: Learn storytelling from Pixar in a free online course
• Like. Flirt. Ghost: A Journey Into the Social Media Lives of Teens, by @choitotheworld
• The non-Western books that every student should read (via @_SKProject)
• The new new new LinkedIn
• Women Demand a Voice in Criminal Justice Conversation by @LVikkiml (via @LissomeLight)
• Daryl Davis, “Black Man Who Befriended KKK Members,” answers Redditors’ questions
• Finished The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, biting in humor, loving in showing depression: aff. link http://amzn.to/2mKpm7Y
• Taken: The use and abuse of civil forfeiture, by @stillsarita (RT @Longreads)
• When Things Go Missing, by @KathrynSchulz
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – Syed Balkhi on leveraging free to gain business
• 5 Things @Jonathan_Bree Learned as a Designer at Lego (RT @LizCouto)
• “Please, I am out of options”: Inside the murky world of DIY abortions, by @mtredden
• When Mom is in prison, by Craig Schneider @Scraigo (via @ryonhorne)
• Swan, Late: The unexpected joys of adult beginner ballet, by Irina Dumitrescu @irinibus

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• The Birmingham channel: Streaming and stalking

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My picks for #sundayread for March 5, 2017:

• Y’all Connect: How Iron Man beats both Superman and Batman
• SPLC report uncovers abuse and neglect at immigrant detention centers in the South
• Reformed Racists: Is There Life After Hate for Ex-White Supremacists? By @craigary
• Death of a blog
• After the Apocalypse: Trying to Describe Reality in Unreal Times, by @SarahLJaffe
• Typecast as a terrorist, by Riz Ahmed @rizmc (RT @jimaids)
• Flashback: My philosophy of customer service
• Zuckerberg in Nigeria, by @StevenLevy (via @HarvardMalaria)
• My Post-Herald colleague @ThomasHargrove using big data to track serial killers, by @BobKolker
• Flashback: “Two-a-Days” season 2, episode 6: Crunch time
• An Oral History of “The Oregon Trail,” compiled by @KevinJamesWong
• 6 years on from Arab Spring, revolution lingers in the air, by @ElGingihy (RT @EEDemocracy)
• Ill. Court Fees Prevent Poor From Closing Cases by @Miles__Bryan (via @shrivercenter)
• What Does Millennial Mean? Why the Generation Is Hard to Define by @ktmcbeth (via @FlowComms)

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• The Birmingham channel: Flipping out

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My picks for #sundayread for February 26, 2017:

• What podcasts are on your playlist?
• Rise of a New Media Baron and Emerging Threat of News Deserts [PDF], by @businessofnews
• Apocalypse Meow: TN Cult Believes Cats Are Divine Beings, by @BobSmietana (via @Longreads)
• Y’all Connect: Super secret sale for super special guests
• Survey: Folks still prefer printed books over ebooks by @byDanielVictor (via @lisawborden)
• 26 Fantastic Authors of Muslim Descent to Read, by @NiveaSerrao
• Flashback: Books – Excerpt from Kathy G’s “Food, Fun and Fabulous”
• Pleasures of Protest: Fighting Gentrification in Chinatown by @EstherxlWang (RT @Longreads)
• The Curious, Bloody Lives of Vampire Bats, by Bill Schutt @draculae (RT @IAmADracula)
• Flashback: How to embed Facebook video in blog posts

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• The Birmingham channel: Running, biking, browsing

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My picks for #sundayread for February 19, 2017:

• The U.S. Constitution
• Y’all Connect: Understanding our audience through listening
• Fortress of Tedium: What I Learned as a Substitute Teacher, by @NicholsonBaker8
• Harnessing Twitter’s power with TweetDeck
• Sci-Fi Is for Everyone: 6 Stories About Marginalized Groups, by @Emily_Perper
• 13 books every PR pro should read, by Brad Phillips @MrMediaTraining (RT @PRDaily)
• Wade’s 101: #Haiku retrospective 41 #poetry
• Chat Wars, by David Auerbach @AuerbachKeller
• Proof that life is getting better for humanity, in 5 charts, by @MaxCRoser (via @skoczen)
• Susan Sontag on Storytelling & Her Advice to Writers, by @brainpicker (RT @sherfitch)
• Oral history of “The Wonder Years,” compiled by Bonnie Stiernberg @aahrealbonsters
• NYPD Is Kicking People Out of Homes, Even if They Haven’t Committed Crime by @MissRyley
• @TristanHarris wants to break our phone addiction, by @bbosker (via @chrissyfarr)
• A Post-Election Lesson from Jimmy Carter, by @JCrossleyHoward (via @CelesteHeadlee)

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• Happy Valentine’s Day!
• The Birmingham channel: Love languages

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My picks for #sundayread for February 12, 2017:

• Digging deeper into the words we all use differently
• Feminist author @RGay pulls book from @SimonSchuster over Milo Yiannopoulos deal by @kemettler
• Top 10 books about wild women, by Danielle Dutton (via @BaxterSally)
• Y’all Connect: Using Illustrator or InDesign for email marketing
• The Twilight of the Indoor Mall, by Mike Nagel
• @TFerriss, “Oprah of Audio,” Podcast Has 70M+ Downloads by @RyanHoliday (RT @problogger)
• Flashback: Blogging fear – Deadlines
• The Roller Rink Origins of NWA, by Sam Sweet (RT @Longreads)
• How Much It Actually Costs to Make Your Shirt, by @_corycorinne (via @Project_JUST)
• Flashback: Wade’s 101 – Love sucks
• “Luke Cage” & Year Marvel Reckoned w/ Black Audience by @jowrotethis (via @BlaireBitchproj)
• Never before was so much of the world fenced off by barbed wire, by @DickWittenberg
• Researcher @CurrentIncurSci races for cure for his cancer by @RebeccaDRobbins /via @LillyTrials
• Sometimes the “Tough Teen” Is Quietly Writing Stories, by @MattdelaPena

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• The Birmingham channel: Pedaling for hours

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My picks for #sundayread for February 5, 2017:

• How to find your blog’s focus
• Fast Fashion Is Creating an Environmental Crisis, by @AldenWicker (via @Project_JUST)
• Millennials Are Actually Workaholics, According to Research, by @skgreen (via @metavallon)
• Y’all Connect: Where do you need help with digital marketing? Tell us.
• How White Kids Stole House Music from Black Aunties, by CJG Ghanny (RT @TicketSellers)
• An OS 9 odyssey: Why these Mac users won’t abandon 16-year-old software, by @MossRC
• Flashback: The state of the blogosphere: Constant flux
• 14 Books by African Writers to Look Forward to in 2017 by @bookshybooks (via @_SKProject)
• Inside Quebec’s Multi-Million-Dollar Maple Syrup Heist, by @RichCohen2003 (via @off2paradise)
• Y’all Connect – Freebie: Magic City Sticker Pack
• @RollingStone’s 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, compiled by Rob Sheffield @robsheff
• A Law Professor Explains Why You Should Never Talk to Police, by Harry Cheadle @HCheadle
• Longreads Best of 2016
• E-Mail from Bill, by John Seabrook @jmseabrook

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• The Birmingham channel: Up in the air

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My picks for #sundayread for January 29, 2017:

• Y’all Connect: Meet our new Salesperson, Laura
• Michael Goodwin @Economixcomix uses his comics to illustrate how not to fix Obamacare
• “1984” Isn’t the Only Book Enjoying a Revival, by Sophie Gilbert @sophieGG
• On the diminishing importance of headlines
• Highbrow Hoarder, by @DougCoupland (via @___thisKID)
• Bibliomania, Dark Desire That Infected Europe in 1800s by @LaurenJYoung617 (via @BaxterSally)
• How social networks divide us
• A creative writing lesson from @mckeestory, the “God of Story,” by @timlottwriter (RT @ronyd)
• Why Placebos Really Work: Latest Science, by Sumathi Reddy @rddysum (via @LillyTrials)
• Y’all Connect – Greenery for 2017: A prouder shade of okra
• Mike Sager @therealsager on the Secret Life of Ugly Hollywood
• A 20-year toll: 368 gymnasts allege sexual exploitation (via @atompkins)
• The New Arms Race: Quantum Communication (via @EvyCoul)
• When every moment can be recorded, what happens to childhood? By @MJContrera (RT @kdwashburn)

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• The Birmingham channel: Closing the circuit

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My picks for #sundayread for January 22, 2017:

• Y’all Connect: Are audiences as crazy for videos as advertisers are?
• Linguist @GeorgeLakoff explains how Democrats helped elect Trump, by @PaulHRosenberg
• A Minority President: Why Polls Failed, And What Majority Can Do, by @GeorgeLakoff
• Make plans for WordCamp US 2017 and 2018 in Nashville
• A Lost World of Shipwrecks Found in Black Sea, by @WilliamJBroad (RT @Ocean_Networks)
• Troubled friendship of Leo Tolstoy & Maxim Gorky by @AaronLakeSmith (via @RanjibMazumder)
• Y’all Connect – Understanding Dan Harmon’s storytelling steps
• Gerard Helferich reviews “Sixty” by Ian Brown @brownoftheglobe (via @applepieisgood)
• An oral history of “Deliverance,” compiled by @TheJohnMeroney
• RIP Facebook interest lists
• Entertainment Weekly’s @DarrenFranich on Star Trek movie franchise in 13 thoughtful essays
• A Secret Justice System That Lets Execs Escape Crimes, by @ChrisDHamby (RT @PPTAWeb)
• Taming the Mammoth: Why You Should Stop Caring What Others Think, by @waitbutwhy (RT @tferriss)
• Doing Her Quiet Thing, by Michelle Koufopoulos @_belletristic_ (via @MiraPtacin)

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• The Birmingham channel: Dancing dogs and riding hogs
• Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day!

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My picks for #sundayread for January 15, 2017:

• Email offense
• The dark underbelly to the global cotton industry, by @LizSegran (via @Project_JUST)
• Meet Alabama’s Jeff Sessions, nominee for US Attorney General, by @SharonLNYT and @MattApuzzo
• Y’all Connect: Run fast, run free: See this student spec spot
• FREE audiobook, “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up,” by @MarieKondo
• Murder in Burundi: The man who knew too much, by @JessieHatcher (RT @MacJordaN)
• The 2016 index to Birmingham Blogging Academy posts
• Facing Down the Panopticon, by William A. Blunden (RT @tomaatman)
• Can Archivists Save South Sudan, World’s Newest Nation? By @NinaStrochlic (via @Melaniegouby)
• Amy Schumer’s “The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo” left me wanting: [aff. link] http://amzn.to/2iJRa8z
• How a tragic love story was turned into a brand, by @FrancesByrnes
• NPR’s 3-part series on funding public schools, by @NPRCoryTurner
• Coastal Flooding Caused by Global Warming Already Begun, by @JustinHGillis (RT @Koons17112)
• The Hidden History of Gas Station Bathrooms, by a Man Who Cleans Them, @GavinJenkins80

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• The Birmingham channel: Snowed in

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My picks for #sundayread for January 8, 2017:

• 7 Life Lessons from @JonMorrow, a Guy Who Can’t Move Anything but His Face
• Y’all Connect: Let’s kill vanity metrics
• What happens when political language fails? By Mark Thompson (via @jontybradley)
• A collection of weird things I accomplished in 2016
• Conservation threatens ruination for Mongolia’s Dukha (via @talibambu)
• People of color is fastest-growing demo among cyclists, by @EllyBlue (via @GOBuffalo)
• Read and enjoyed Solzhenitsyn’s “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich”: [aff. link] http://amzn.to/2iJPHiN
• “Ella & Louis,” 60 Years Later by @universalshow (via @james3neal @TeaAndTemerity)
• Group chat: long meeting w/ random folks, no agenda by @JasonFried /via @TeamleaderBE
• Email defense
• Oral History of “My So-Called Life,” minus Claire Danes, compiled by @gwynnesanity
• 10 most critical problems in world acc. to millennials, by @notsoTan_za (RT @EvyCoul)
• The white flight of Derek Black, by @EliSaslow
• How to talk to strangers, by @KioStark (RT @jc_espitia)

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• The Birmingham channel: Chaos is a friend of mine

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