Sunday, September 11th, 2016
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Sunday, September 4th, 2016
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Sunday, August 28th, 2016
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- On starting at the Birmingham Post-Herald 20 years ago #bham
- Internet Glitch Turned This Kan. Farm into Digital Hell, by @kashhill (via @acearley)
- Want to Work in 18 Miles of Books? First, the Quiz. By @AnnieCorreal
- Revisiting the question of catering to smartphones again
- The dark side of @Guardian comments
- Epic Story of Dropbox’s Exodus From Amazon Cloud Empire, by @CadeMetz (RT @NancyThanki)
- Y’all Connect: Let’s connect on Instagram, y’all …
- How colonial blunder became part of War on Terror by @RafiaZakaria (via @JBhattacharji)
- Vote 2016: Municipal election results for Jefferson, Shelby Counties #bham
- The Minecraft Generation, by Clive Thompson @pomeranian99 (RT @irwin)
- The best TV of 2016 so far: The A.V. Club’s catch-up guide
- How U. of Alabama System funneled $1.4m through “dark money” web, by @ConnorASheets
- Neoliberalism, the ideology at the root of all our problems, by @GeorgeMonbiot
- What Research Says About the Best Profile Picture, by @KevanLee (via @MSUmalaysia)
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Sunday, August 21st, 2016
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- Y’all Connect: Help Baton Rouge. Here’s how.
- The Adolescent Brain – What All Teens Need to Know, by @hey_sigmund (RT @DrMaidenberg)
- Lessons from 26 Years of Web Design by Victor Sorescu @Pixelated_Vic (RT @frantastic__)
- Speaking gigs: Southern Public Relations Federation annual conference, September 2016
- Oral history of “Taxi Driver” for 40th anniversary, compiled by Gregg Kilday @gkilday
- Escobar’s Hippos Keep Having Sex — No One Knows How to Stop Them, by @SarahNEmerson
- Books: Excerpt from Carla Jean Whitley’s “Birmingham Beer: A Heady History of Brewing”
- The Tragic History of RC Cola, by @JeffWellsWH
- Flashback: How I’m listening to improve my communication: An update
- K-pop goes India! Riding the Korean musical wave, by @captbackspace (via @damrita)
- Gawker and the rage of the creative underclass, by @VanessaGrigor iadis
- USDA Was Black Farmers’ Worst Enemy. How It Became Ally, by @Ms_SAH (via @cadwego @bittman)
- Mother for Hire, by @RachelAviv
- In the comments, the drama of “Law and Order” unfolds …
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Sunday, August 14th, 2016
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- Never read it in h.s., but finally finished “Slaughterhouse-Five”: [aff. link] http://amzn.to/2aPxgnq
- Gay Talese’s New Yorker Article Is a Failure of Journalistic Ethics, by @IChotiner
- How Poor Kids Bear the Brunt of Overdue Library Book Fines, by @AarianMarshall
- Writers: Stop reading, start writing.
- The World Changing Ideas of 2016, by Morgan Clendaniel @MClendaniel (via @streamltd)
- Dear Parents: Everything You Need to Know About Your Child’s University But Don’t, by Ron Srigley
- Y’all Connect – Beyond 1st draft’s 1st sentence: Superior storytelling starts here
- The 2016 Pulitzer Prize Winners
- When Yahoo Ruled the Valley: Stories of the Original “Surfers,” by @VinduGoel
- Flashback: Books: Excerpt from Emily Brown’s “Birmingham Food: A Magic City Menu”
- Adventures of Richard Donner & 1st “Superman” movie, by Stephen Galloway (RT @crewless)
- A year ago, Obama commuted sentences of 46 nonviolent drug offenders (via @splcenter @lisawborden)
- Million-Dollar Murray, by Malcolm @Gladwell
- I Has a Sweet Potato
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Sunday, August 7th, 2016
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Sunday, July 31st, 2016
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Sunday, July 24th, 2016
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- Just finished terrific “Thinking in Pictures” by @DrTempleGrandin: [aff. link] http://amzn.to/29X8mpt
- Why the Hillary Clinton we see isn’t the one colleagues know, by @EzraKlein (via @jayrosen_nyu)
- A Young Athlete’s World of Pain, and Where It Led, by @TimRohan (via @IamDivs)
- Y’all Connect: The shape of stories to come
- The decade-long poaching crisis, by @VFelbabBrown and Bradley S. Porter (via @usunvie)
- I Found My Father’s Eulogy in Junk Food, by Kaitlyn Greenidge @kkgreenidge
- Flashback: How to make an awesome slide deck, and why you don’t need it
- The Dragnet, by @RussellBrandom (via @kickpointinc)
- 2016 @BeardFoundation Book, Broadcast and Journalism Winners
- Flashback: As Diverse a Conference Lineup as Fans Deserve
- “The Revenant,” “Mad Max: Fury Road” and the Nexus of Cinematic Language, by @FilmCritHulk
- The Love Song of Robert Bentley, Alabama’s Horndog Governor, by Jason @Zengerle
- Unearthing the Secrets of New York’s Mass Graves, by @NinaBernstein1
- A Field Guide to Getting Lost: Rebecca Solnit on How We Find Ourselves (via @patrikfrauzem)
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Sunday, July 17th, 2016
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Sunday, July 10th, 2016
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Sunday, July 3rd, 2016
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Sunday, June 26th, 2016
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Sunday, June 19th, 2016
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Sunday, June 12th, 2016
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- The mommyblogger who dared speak her mind
- A look at TMZ, by @NickSchmidle
- #Bham’s @Spann talks with @SciGuySpace about weather forecasting and technology
- Y’all Connect: Why Bitly is the only link shortener you need
- The Deconstruction of the K-12 Teacher, by @TheMrGodsey (via @PPTAWeb)
- Lucinda Williams @HappyWoman9’s sad stories behind songs, by #Bham’s Jonathan K. Dick
- Flashback: Outrage Theater
- 7 African Women Poets to Read This Summer, by @Omnia_Saed (via @_SKProject)
- 5 inspiring global activists on social media, by @JamesonFleming (via @HootsuiteAPAC)
- Flashback: A look back at City Stages 2006
- @FilmCritHULK explains Marvel Cinematic Universe’s big problem, stagnant characters
- Shame of Middle Class Living Paycheck to Paycheck, by Neal Gabler (via @LDSDems)
- For gifted children, being intelligent has dark implications, by Marcello @DiCintio
- How I mourned my sister through books she left behind, by Tom Rachman (RT @vsisson13)
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Sunday, June 5th, 2016
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