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My picks for #sundayread for September 11, 2016:

• Flashback: The Future of Birmingham: Modest incremental improvement #futureofbham
• Internet transforms way we confront sexual harassment, by @Rebecca_Ruiz @MiriKramer
• How @ALBooksmith uses its unique business plan to succeed, by @SusanSwagler
• Y’all Connect: Sponsoring Y’all Connect in 2017
• I Recorded Racist Things People Said/Did to Me for 2 Wks by @MargeJacobsen (via @roshabra)
• WordPress SEO Tutorial: The Definitive Guide, by Joost de Valk @jdevalk
• Flashback: 7 hard-won lessons from creating my latest blog series and ebook
• Buffalo, by Spencer Hall @edsbs
• The world of invisible bestsellers, by Kevin J Anderson @TheKJA
• Flashback: Blogging fear: Looking stupid / writer’s block
• Playwright Michael Gow’s soul searching in struggle of making art (via @ATYP_Theatre)
• California couple uses more water than every L.A. home combined, by @JoshHarkinson
• Why America’s Schools Have a Money Problem (via @lisawborden)
• The secret history of the GIF, by @LanceUlanoff

More posts from Wade this week:

• Birmingham Blogging Academy: Video: More on picking the right marketing channels
• The Birmingham channel: Declarations at season’s end
• Happy Labor Day!

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My picks for #sundayread for September 4, 2016:

• The rewrite for SEO is on
• @MeganPhelps on life after Westboro Baptist Church, as told to @shahestas (via @jimaids)
• Tailing Zora Neale Hurston & Langston Hughes across South, by Yuval Taylor (via @shawnz)
• Y’all Connect: The intersection of ad agencies and YouTubers
• When the Boss Says, “Don’t Tell Your Coworkers How Much You Get Paid,” by @jdrtimm
• Teaching Neuroscience in Prison, by Sam Doernberg and Joe DiPietro (RT @gsisson64)
• Flashback: Blogging fear: Getting started
• What’s driving teenagers in India to anxiety, depression? (via @prathamdev)
• Unwanted Australians (RT @BronwynOrsatti)
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – Bloggers share lessons from conference: http://itswa.de/1JdDdnD / http://itswa.de/1KJ5Ytf
• History of @ComedyCentral compiled by @JulieSeabaugh http://avc.lu/28Rmn4b / http://avc.lu/28RmqgH / http://avc.lu/2bPmHUr
• The Case for More Female Cops, by @Sarah_Smarsh
• RT @nelson_aj: @mattwynn’s data-driven story on crime in Omaha neighborhood is great
• Birubala Rabha, the Indian woman who hunts witch hunters, by Soutik Biswas @soutikBBC

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• The Birmingham channel: First responders on the scene

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My picks for #sundayread for August 28, 2016:

• 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)

More posts from Wade this week:

• Vote 2016: Municipal elections today
• The Birmingham channel: Goat patrol

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My picks for #sundayread for August 21, 2016:

• 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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• The Birmingham channel: 500,000 seconds of summer

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My picks for #sundayread for August 14, 2016:

• 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

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Chasing bubbles
• Birmingham Blogging Academy: Video: What makes us distinct as a brand?

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My picks for #sundayread for August 7, 2016:

• Wade’s 101: Haiku retrospective 39
• How Aerial Surveillance Has Changed Policing — and Crime — in Los Angeles, by @bldgblog
• Amazon’s Audible Goes Long on Short-Form Audio, by Niraj Chokshi @NirajC
• Interesting book I finished this week, “The Way of the Superior Man” by @David_Deida: [aff. link] http://amzn.to/2aHvRkY
• Adam Neumann’s $16B Play to Turn WeWork Into WeWorld, by @SarahFKessler (via @streborv)
• AI and language, by Vasco Pedro @justvasco (via @Beatriz_Sercas @SpirosMargaris)
• Y’all Connect: A beginner’s guide to curation the easy way
• Is it time to give up leather? By @LucySiegle (via @Project_JUST)
• The law clerk who fell for a convict, by @TonySaavedra2 (RT @DonnaWares)
• Blogging fear: Not knowing where to start
• @TaNehisiCoates, the Playboy interview, by @Bomani_Jones (via @nic_mclean)
• 7 areas where cybersecurity overlaps with foreign policy (RT @CrisLeeMaza)
• Devastating piece on doctors in Syria beautifully reported by @BenTaub91 /RT @emilynussbaum
• The Cost of Photographer Diane Arbus’ Life on the Edge, by @_Alex_Mar

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Super deluxe heat wave edition

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My picks for #sundayread for July 31, 2016:

• Just finished the pretty good “Crush It!” by Gary Vaynerchuk @garyvee: [aff. link] http://amzn.to/2aeLAp0
• @KimballScott shares her thoughts on gender and radical candor (via @tferriss)
• Former students’ stories of Alabama’s worst religious school, by @acvollers
• Y’all Connect: Not just for directors: 10 storytelling rules from documentary cinema
• Mercy Ships: a floating hospital for the world’s poorest regions, by @EvaGrrey
• AI and language, by Vasco Pedro @justvasco (via @Beatriz_Sercas @SpirosMargaris)
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – The strength of blogging is community
• In New Book “Callings,” @StoryCorps Honors Voices of Unsung U.S. Workers
• How to Finally Play the Guitar: 80/20 Guitar and Minimalist Music, by @CharlieHoehn
• Flashback: Books: Excerpt from Blake Ells’ “The Muscle Shoals Legacy of FAME”
• How @AgathaChristie poisoned victims in her books, by @JaiArjun Singh (RT @Shrinterest)
• The Age of Facts Is Over, by Jill Lepore (via @PPTAWeb)
• The land that no country wants, by Jack Shenker @hackneylad (via @TamsinChislett)
• Local bookstore has hilarious new sections, by Julija Nėjė

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: The sporting life, summer edition
• Audio: Do the hustle

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My picks for #sundayread for July 24, 2016:

• 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)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: The main events
• Video: The Absolutely Essential Social Media Tools [Birmingham Ad Fed]

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My picks for #sundayread for July 17, 2016:

• Y’all Connect: It takes just 6 months to change perceptions
• One look at supporters of Trump’s presidential run, by George Saunders (via @jayrosen_nyu)
• She Wanted to Do Her Research. He Wanted to Talk “Feelings.” By @HopeJahren (RT @stephinlala)
• Revisiting the question of catering to smartphones
• @ConstanceWu Doesn’t Want to Be Your “It” Girl, by @E_AlexJung
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – Your brand’s story isn’t looney enough
• The Journalist and the Troll: This Man Spent 2 Years Trying to Destroy @DuneLawrence
• Flashback: Getting the brand back together
• The science of craving, by @Amy_Fleming (RT @applepieisgood)
• Ukrainian Hacker: FBI’s Best Weapon and Worst Nightmare, by @kpoulsen (via @ilginigli)
• 33 Fun Facts About “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” by @ErinCMcCarthy
• The Obama Doctrine, by @JeffreyGoldberg
• The Storm That Will Destroy Houston //Plus, Hell and High Water
• How much does it cost to own a dog? (RT @DogDialog)

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• The Birmingham channel: The saga continues

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My picks for #sundayread for July 10, 2016:

• Flashback: Blogging’s hidden cost: tradeoffs
• CNN investigation into one of history’s biggest scams, psychic Maria Duval
• Pinterest Reinvents to Prove It’s Really Worth Billions, by @jessiwrites (RT @sarahwuslp)
• Y’all Connect: These metrics apps bring statistical clarity to social media
• Real-World Blueprint for a $5-Million Week, by @Ramit Sethi
• Doing a TED Talk: The Full Story, by Tim Urban @waitbutwhy (RT @Rk80J)
• Flashback: Wade’s 5,000th on Birmingham
• 2016 Winners, Livingston Awards for Young Journalists
• 100+ Fantastic Pieces of Journalism, compiled by @conor64 (RT @jesspatterson)
• Flashback: Concert series “We Have Signal” ends 7-year run
• The music industry cranks up the volume in its fight against YouTube (RT @TicketSellers)
• The Plot to Take Down a Fox News Analyst, by @FrenchAlexM
• Can We Keep the Schuylkill River Trail Safe? By David Gambacorta @dgambacorta
• What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team, by @cduhigg (RT @simidbg)

More posts from Wade this week:

• Video: Picking the right marketing channels
• The Birmingham channel: Down from Red Mountain

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My picks for #sundayread for July 3, 2016:

• A Marine’s convictions, by @JohnWoodrowCox
• Who’s Looking Out for L.A.’s Endangered Children? By Miles Corwin
• Y’all Connect: The secret is in the editing
• The Weight of James Arthur Baldwin, by Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah (RT @AfrikaReads)
• Blogging fear: Stuck using a phone to blog
• Chicken With a Beef: The Untold Story of @ChickfilA’s Cow Campaign, by @ktjrichards
• Can Anyone Save The New York Times from Itself? By @SarahLEllison
• American Capitalism’s Great Crisis, by @RanaForoohar (RT @PPTAWeb)
• 25 things you didn’t know about “Terminator 2,” turning 25 today, by @reverend61a
• A Caucasian’s Guide to Spades, by @MichaelHarriot

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• The Birmingham channel: Songs of the South

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My picks for #sundayread for June 26, 2016:

• Y’all Connect – Build your own corporate newsroom
• Millennials and Political News, a @pewresearch report
• The Rise and Fall of a Bitcoin Kingpin, by @DavidKushner (RT @kickpointinc)
• Better webinars from the audience’s perspective
• The History of Pho, by Andrea Nguyen @aqnguyen (RT @kickpointinc)
• 25 Queer Authors You Should Be Reading, by Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly (via @torontofac)
• Flashback: #yallconnect opens with … math.
• Petra Schulz is teaching students about the human face of addiction
• Citizen Khan, the Old West’s Muslim Tamale King, by @KathrynSchulz (via @seanbeh3)
• Flashback: “Roadtrip Nation” special stops in Birmingham
• 19 essential books about TV
• For poor in Ivy League, full ride isn’t what they imagined by @wpnick (RT @NancyThanki)
• Family fought predatory monopoly of prison phones. By @ColinLecher (via @kickpointinc)
• Hook, Line, Sinker: Rich shipwreck find or scam? By @ErickTrickey (RT @kickpointinc)

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• The Birmingham channel: Always another angle

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My picks for #sundayread for June 19, 2016:

• For WordPress admins, a dangerous default setting
• Jesus 😢: The Bible translated into emoji by @KittyGKnowles (via @museumofBible)
• Columbine shooter’s mother Sue Klebold: I carry him “everywhere I go, always”
• Y’all Connect: Where do you curate your information?
• Those fitness monitors lie — sometimes a lot. By @BobSegallWTHR (RT @atompkins)
• Democrats Will Learn Wrong Lessons From Brush With Bernie, by Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi
• Flashback: Promote an event with a real Web presence
• The “Boys” in the Bunkhouse, by @DanBarryNYT (via @NPFreelance)
• Profile of food scholar Michael Twitty @KosherSoul, by @MichaeleWeissma n
• Flashback: Wade’s 101: Haiku retrospective 35
• “NYPD Blue” creator David Milch Made $100M and Gambled Away His Fortune
• 5-part @NewRepublic series on many legal/ethical troubles of Ala. govt, by Joe Miller
• Olympics observer @JulesBoykoff talks with Janine Jackson about 2016 Summer Games
• Robert Frank, the Photographer Who Captured America’s Dark Side, by @LucasReilly1

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• The Birmingham channel: We jazz June

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My picks for #sundayread for June 12, 2016:

• 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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• The Birmingham channel: The dance goes on

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My picks for #sundayread for June 5, 2016:

• How to conduct a social media audit
• 1989’s Great Men Die Twice: Muhammad Ali in Decline, by Mark Kram
• Stanford rape victim’s heartbreaking letter to her attacker
• Flashback: Excerpt from Patti Callahan Henry’s “The Idea of Love” #bham
• The fall of Salon·com, by @KelseyMSutton and @PeterSterne
• Istanbul’s meyhane culture, by Arzu Sak @cheesist
• Y’all Connect: Resisting the seduction of the digital marketing rut
• Story of Stewart Who Accidentally Created Flickr & Slack, by @Mat Honan (RT @hubsg)
• TED founder on building most popular conference by @MichaelGrothaus (via @cmansfield27)
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – A typical Friday night in Birmingham
• 1989’s My Dinner With Ali, by Davis Miller
• When the Hospital Fires the Bullet, by Elisabeth Rosenthal @nytrosenthal
• The day we discovered our parents were Russian spies, by @ShaunWalker7 (via @SandiSolow)
• The Moral Bucket List, by @nytDavidBrooks (RT @NeetaBhatia)

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• The Birmingham channel: Jack Bauer lives!

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