Sunday, January 1st, 2017
My picks for #sundayread for January 1, 2017, highlighting the year’s best reads:
- “Still a city of slaves.” Life in Selma, by @Chris_Arnade
- Stanford rape victim’s heartbreaking letter to her attacker
- Greenland is melting, by @ElizKolbert
- At Tampa Bay farm-to-table restaurants/markets, you’re fed fiction by @lreiley
- The Land That the Internet Era Forgot, by @WRalphEubanks
- Local bookstore has hilarious new sections, by Julija NÄ—jÄ—
- For gifted kids, being intelligent has dark implications by Marcello @DiCintio
- How These Infographics Reveal Your Brain’s Blind Spots, by @LenaGroeger
- Shame of Middle Class Living Paycheck to Paycheck, by Neal Gabler
- How Magic City, an Atlanta strip club, runs music industry, by @DevinFriedman
- Garry Shandling: The Reclusive Master of American Comedy, by @MsAmyWallace
- The Agency, by @AdrianChen
- The Obama Doctrine, by @JeffreyGoldberg
- Great Artists Write, by @PaulJun_
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Sunday, December 18th, 2016
My picks for #sundayread for December 18, 2016, highlighting the year’s best reads:
- On Rural America: Understanding Isn’t the Problem, by @ForsettisCreed
- Monica Lewinsky talks with @JonRonson for Guardian’s “The Web We Want” series
- 5-part @NewRepublic series on many legal/ethical troubles of Ala. govt, by Joe Miller
- How Hot Chicken Really Happened, by @R_LMartin
- The Dragnet, by @RussellBrandom
- Extremely Abridged Versions of Classic Books, by John Atkinson @WrongHands1
- Every stranger in the world is a cousin of yours, by Tim Urban @waitbutwhy
- Poor people in the Deep South are on their own, by @ChicoHarlan
- The sugar conspiracy, by @MrIanLeslie
- How to Hack an Election
- The Business of Too Much TV, by @TVMoJoe and @writerchica
- America’s Real Criminal Element: Lead, by Kevin Drum @kdrum
- What Went Wrong in Flint, by @AnnaBarryJester
- The World Isn’t Safe, But Explore It Anyway, by @DangerousBiz
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Sunday, December 11th, 2016
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Sunday, December 4th, 2016
My picks for #sundayread for December 4, 2016:
- Consistent communication is important. So is shaking things up.
- The Preschooler’s Empathy Void, by Alia Wong @aliaemily (via @PPTAWeb)
- Classified Nightmares: Psychiatric Care at Guantánamo by @SheriFink (via @jamessienkievic)
- Y’all Connect: How do you stand out in the digital world?
- Who’ll get the big book contract for Election 2016? By @kheller (via @thehotplan)
- A Surreal Life on the Precipice in Puerto Rico, by @MaryWalshNYT
- Flashback: To free UAB will require immense financial pressure #bham
- How to Inspire Innovation for the Climate Crisis, by @JustinHGillis (via @EvyCoul)
- Dinner, Disrupted, by @DanielDuane
- Flashback: What I’ve learned from 10 years of blogging
- Design genius behind “Stranger Things” popular title font, by @alice_emily (via @rjashley)
- All Politics Is National, by @CraigFehrman
- The Rise of Irreligion, a demographic crisis among Republicans, by @MattSheffield
- How Apple Made the Watch Work for Wheelchair Users, by John Brownlee (RT @1iShahin)
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Sunday, November 27th, 2016
My picks for #sundayread for November 27, 2016:
- Y’all Connect: What do we need to build an online buyer persona?
- The Writer Who Was Too Strong to Live, by Dave McKenna
- The 93-year journey of Kool Korner sandwich shop’s Ildefonso Ramirez, by @ExcitableBob
- Thankful for … Part 2
- How Soviets invented internet, and why it didn’t work, by @BJPeters (via @michaelkloepzig)
- @JimCarrollOTR talks with @BenRatliff on music in age of streaming (via @RanjibMazumder)
- Flashback: Y’all Connect – Meet our new Volunteer Coordinator, James
- What Happens When Police Misidentify You as the Dallas Shooter, by Darryl Campbell
- The future of food, by @KillianFox0 (via @AtBristol_LST)
- Flashback: LinkedIn for smarties, a five-step program
- Oral history: Jon Stewart’s “Daily Show,” compiled by @ChrisSmithNYMag
- The Rise of the Supertemp, by @JodyGMiller and @MattMillerNow (RT @Fenero)
- Haunted by hackers: A suburban family’s digital ghost story, by @KevinRoose
- “Jersey Belle” @JaimePrimak Sullivan shares Southern love story in new book (with excerpt)
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Sunday, November 20th, 2016
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Sunday, November 13th, 2016
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Sunday, November 6th, 2016
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Sunday, October 30th, 2016
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Sunday, October 23rd, 2016
My picks for #sundayread for October 23, 2016:
- Weaponize content
- Patagonia’s Philosopher-King, Yvon Chouinard, by @NickPaumgarten (via @Project_JUST)
- Land, Law and Traditional Leadership in South Africa, by Nick Branson @nhbranson
- Y’all Connect: How long should my blog posts be?
- 5 Emails to Send to Maximize Event Attendance, by @NirajShah (via @ODEONBusiness)
- On Transitioning Out of Being a “Young Composer,” by @AaronGervais (RT @soundandmusic)
- Vote 2016: Sample ballots for Jefferson, Shelby County, Ala., general election
- Virtual memory: a race to save the information age, by @richove (RT @Garigalicious)
- Clippy and History of Future of Educational Chatbots, by @AudreyWatters (RT @PPTAWeb)
- Friends of the Homewood Public Library @WeKnowBooksETC $5 Bag Sale on 11/6 #bham
- The man who smuggled punk into East Berlin, by Joseph Delves (via @TicketSellers)
- American Democracy Down for the Count, by Ann Jones (h/t @danielduwa)
- Inside @EvanSpiegel’s very private Snapchat Story, by @KurtWagner8 (RT @dadica)
- A ripper interview with the late Edward Albee, by William Flanagan (RT @ATYP_Theatre)
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Sunday, October 16th, 2016
My picks for #sundayread for October 16, 2016:
- Y’all Connect: Don’t tell a story just to tell a story
- America Has Never Been So Ripe for Tyranny, by @sullydish (RT @danielduwa)
- The Unbelievable Tale of Jesus’ Wife, by @ArielSabar (RT @NgigiNiro)
- Flashback: Email marketing (1 of 3): Start spreading the news
- Uncanny Valley, by @AnnaWiener (via @ThemisAndThread)
- Among the Ghosts of Industry, by Cody Owens #bham
- Flashback: I survived a speaker’s worst nightmare! (And you can, too.)
- Science, Chance and Emotion with Real Cosima, by @MaudNewton (via @AtBristol_LST)
- Bad analogy: The brain is not a computer, by @drrepstein (via @michaelkloepzig)
- Finishing up 3rd part of Faulkner’s “Three Famous Short Novels”: [aff. link] http://amzn.to/2e2NXOH
- I Published My Debut Novel to Acclaim, Then I Promptly Went Broke, by @MerrittTierce
- Why Do People Who Need Help From the Government Hate It So Much? By Jason DeParle
- How the FDA Manipulates the Media, by Charles Seife @cgseife
- A Life in Google Maps, by Jess Zimmerman @j_zimms
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Sunday, October 9th, 2016
My picks for #sundayread for October 9, 2016:
- ESPN faces reality: Losing subscribers by bucketload, by @RickMaese (RT @TVNewsLab)
- In search for MD teens, authorities make deal w/ killer, by @Justin_Fenton (via @MegPryce)
- Is blogging still a thing? Hell yes. – Birmingham Blogging Academy
- Is blogging still a thing? Hell no. – Y’all Connect
- Where Soul of Nashville Never Dies: the Ryman, by @JenniferJustus (via @justinHwilson)
- A Surge of Startups Is Changing Life in Utah, by @ceodonovan (RT @kickpointinc)
- Vote 2016: Municipal election runoff results for Jefferson, Shelby Counties
- Patient Engagement Survey: Better Tools Are Needed, by Kevin Volpp (via @LillyTrials)
- The Sixth Extinction? By @ElizKolbert (via @100MilesGA)
- Flashback: Wade on Birmingham’s 10th anniversary
- The Oral History of the Comedy Central Roast, by @JulieSeabaugh
- How Fox News Women Took Down Roger Ailes, by @GabrielSherman
- Paula Broadwell, David Petraeus & Afterlife of Scandal by @jess7bennett (RT @Mumia_Julius)
- How People Learn to Become Resilient, by Maria Konnikova @mkonnikova (RT @danielduwa)
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Sunday, October 2nd, 2016
My picks for #sundayread for October 2, 2016:
- 1-year anniversary of my collaborative book, “The Future of Birmingham.” Free copy: http://itswa.de/futureofbham
- Boarding homes stand between mentally ill and homelessness, by @AmyKingsley4
- Secret Cameras Record Baltimore’s Every Move From Above, by @MonteReel
- Y’all Connect: Great ebook ideas to win new blog subscribers
- When Parks Were Radical, by @NathanielRich (via @BaxterSally)
- How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds, by @TristanHarris (RT @mandyjwatson)
- Flashback: The Future of Birmingham: Cultural mining, by @cbprints #futureofbham
- Why do we follow digital maps into dodgy places? By @GIMilner (RT @legalnomads)
- Flashback: 400 posts on Birmingham Blogging Academy and counting
- Asian-American Actors Fighting for Visibility, by @AmandaHess (via @katherine_lee1)
- We Built This S#!tty: An Oral History of the Worst Song of All Time, by @tannenbaumr
- The end of capitalism has begun, by @PaulMasonNews (RT @danielduwa)
- The Aspiring Novelist Who Became Obama’s Foreign-Policy Guru, by David Samuels (via @ajkeen)
- Enjoli, by @KristiCCoulter
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Sunday, September 25th, 2016
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Sunday, September 18th, 2016
My picks for #sundayread for September 18, 2016:
- Flashback: The Future of Birmingham: 101 #futureofbham
- Charming Doodles by Charles Darwin’s Kids, by @brainpicker (via @FamilyNature)
- Inside Twitter’s 10-Year Failure to Stop Harassment, by @cwarzel (via @NiemanLab)
- Finally read and finished the gripping “Homicide” by David Simon: [aff. link] http://amzn.to/2c3H7uS
- 9 Learnings from 9 Years of @BrainPickings
- Hoover Dam, built for eternity, by @Elmo_Keep (via @kickpointinc)
- Y’all Connect: Where to start blogging right now
- The Peace of Hopelessness, by Jessie Carson @livingpractice (RT @FamilyNature)
- Bill Gates, Buffett and Oprah Use 5-Hour Rule for Learning, by @MichaelDSimmons
- The comeback of copywriters
- Art, Calif.’s Response to Broken Prison System, by @shelikestowatch (via @18thStreetArts)
- The Agency, by @AdrianChen
- An Exegesis on Spanking Fetishists: @jessicagross talks with @JillianKeenan
- The World Isn’t Safe, But Explore It Anyway, by @DangerousBiz (via @JourneysMagUK)
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