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My picks for #sundayread for July 19, 2015:

• Blogging’s hidden cost: tradeoffs
• Why Did @FrontlinePBS Kill Lowell Bergman’s Gambling Documentary? By @TheLloydGrove
• How @KellySue DeConnick is changing comic books, by @LauraAnnaParker (via @BooksLIVESA)
• Flashback: Blood oath
• It’s Amazon’s 20th Birthday! As Usual, I’m Being a Party Pooper, by @CRollwagen
• 5 ways Amazon has damaged the literary world, by @TheMisreadCity (via @tsutrav)
• Slides from Y’all Connect 2015
• The Sad, Strange Story of Sandy Allen, Tallest Woman in World, by Sandra Allen @sealln
• You Rang? Mastering the Art of Serving the Rich, by John P. Davidson [PDF]
• Flashback: Wade’s 101: Headline retrospective 2
• Whatever happened to Josh from “Clueless”? By @magicmolly (via @Laura_Weir)
• Revenge Killing: Race and death penalty in La. parish, by Rachel Aviv (RT @melaniesiow)
• My Year in the NRA, by @rob1cox
• A Eulogy for the Long, Intimate Email, by @TeddyWayne1999 (RT @AfrikaReads)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Planned outings

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• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for July 12, 2015:

• Twitter transcript for Y’all Connect 2015
• Newport Beach (CA) Police Made Life for Its Good Cops a Living Hell, by @RScottMoxley
• What makes a book quote more popular than its book? By @JesseBrowner (via @BooksLIVESA)
• On the air for “Biz Talk with Roy Williams”
• Prague Journal; Shirley Temple Black Unpacks a Bag of Memories, by Craig R. Whitney
• Bookindy app helps bookshops fight against Amazon, by @DavidMBarnett (via @GreenhouseAds)
• Flashback: Wade’s 101: Haiku retrospective 28: http://itswa.de/haiku-28
• The Strange Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe’s Hair, by @ElonGreen
• @TaiyeSelasi: Stop pigeonholing African writers (RT @AfrikaReads)
• Concert series “We Have Signal” ends 7-year run
• Baby abandoned outside supermarket in 1987. Update from @TellTheresa (via @DonnaWares)
• A Holacracy of Dunces, by @PaulCarr (via @MartyMcCabe)
• In the Gay Wing of Los Angeles Men’s Central Jail, by @AniUcar
• What would you pay to be happy? By @axrenton (RT @SusaWivolin)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Echoes of summer

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#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for July 5, 2015:

• The 5,000th post for Wade on Birmingham!
• Y’all Connect: Our annual 10-day video sale
• Slavery and Freedom in New York City, by Eric Foner @cwrmooc
• “Roadtrip Nation” special stops in Birmingham
• In lieu of another blog post, 2015 edition
• Farm to Fable: Deception, fraud in the farm-to-table movement, by @_TroyJohnson
• Don’t Be Afraid of the Clowns, by Leigh Cowart @voraciousbrain
• On Starbucks’ controversial #RaceTogether campaign, by @AustinCarr (RT @Cassidy_Davis)
• Obergefell v. Hodges, a 5-4 ruling making gay marriage legal across US [PDF]
• 10 celebrity memoirs to devour this summer

More posts from Wade this week:

• Happy Independence Day!
• Emmylou Harris returns to White House for PBS concert
• The Birmingham channel: Rolling along

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#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for June 28, 2015:

• Promote an event with a real Web presence
• Public radio needs more weekend hits, and fast, by Michael Arnold @radioarnold
• Book reviewing has lost its serrated edge, by Frances Wilson (via @BooksLIVESA)
• Flashback: Social Media Day 2012: Birmingham tweetup at J. Clyde
• Personal finance expert @Ramit Sethi answers questions on Reddit
• The Definitive History of Personal Style Blogs, by @CaseyMLewis
• Y’all Connect: Winners from our 2015 conference and survey
• Sail Away: The Oral History of Yacht Rock, by @lordandrewtoal
• The future of loneliness, by Olivia Laing @olivialanguage (RT @lermann)
• Flashback: The @WadeOnTweets 1,000 follower prize blowout!
• The Most Daring Cliffhanger in “Star Trek: The Next Generation” History by @AaronCouch
• Anti-Intellectualism Is Killing America, by @ahadave (via @dianabill @amtant1972)
• Between Kickstarter’s frauds and phenoms live long-delayed projects by @CaseyJohnston
• 20 Things You Might Not Know About “Office Space,” by Roger Cormier @yayroger

More posts from Wade this week:

• Y’all Connect: Video: Y’all Connect 2015 starts off with … math
• The Birmingham channel: High hopes

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My picks for #sundayread for June 21, 2015:

• Wade’s 101: Haiku retrospective 35
• Why Summer Makes Us Lazy, by Maria Konnikova @mkonnikova
• 11 Literary Luminaries’ Ultimate Summertime Reads, compiled by @imjasondiamond
• Outrage Theater
• Summer Job Diaries, by Shannon @__Keating
• Into the Woods, from Tech: Adult summer camp as “social experiment,” by @chriscolin3000
• Flashback: The power of digital storytelling: Your story (first of 3 parts)
• Notes from a Bookshop: Late Summer, or Summer Is a Kind of Island, by Kelly McMasters
• Top 10 Ways to Survive the Summer Without Air Conditioning, by @monkeykin
• My popular 1st ebook “The Social Media Stars of Birmingham” turns 2 years old in June
• Summer Camp, by Tyler Ford @tywrent
• Mental illness: The big lie that follows mass shootings by white men by @arthur_affect
• Why Parents Aren’t Making Their Kids Read During the Summer, by Stephanie Cohen
• How to Make Online Dating Work, by @AzizAnsari and @EricKlinenberg

More posts from Wade this week:

• Y’all Connect 2015 through your eyes
• Y’all Connect 2015 through photos
• The Birmingham channel: As seen from above

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#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for June 14, 2015:

• Be kind to your Twitter followers
• “Calvin and Hobbes” embodied the voice of the lonely child, by @midwestspitfire
• Powerful post on McKinney by @PoliceLawProf: 2 officers, guardian and warrior /RT @ShaunKing
• Flashback: The 500th post on Wade on Birmingham
• Definitive Oral History of How “Clueless” Became an Iconic ’90s Classic, by @chaneyj
• Robert Graves and Maurice Sendak on the Magic of Reading, by @brainpicker
• Y’all Connect: Our thanks!
• Sometimes, dead is better: Has TV’s reboot fever run amok? By @sepinwall
• Columbia House insiders explain shady math behind “8 CDs for 1¢,” by @AnnieZaleski
• Flashback: Good news from the Green Eyeshade Awards
• The making of the Simpsons’ two-part classic, “Who Shot Mr. Burns?” by @AlanSiegelDC
• SEAL Team 6: A Secret History of Quiet Killings and Blurred Lines (RT @ItsKev7)
• NPR explains the real reasons U.S. graduation rates are rising (RT @M_Bloom)
• Cam girls choose sex streaming as a long-term career path, by @mandystadt

More posts from Wade this week:

• Y’all Connect: A typical Friday night in Birmingham

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#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for June 7, 2015:

• Flashback: Y’all Connect: A guide to getting the most out of any conference
• Holy Crop: How Federal Dollars Are Financing the Water Crisis in the West (via @ev)
• Books: Excerpt from Patti Callahan Henry’s @pcalhenry “The Idea of Love” #bham
• Uncovering the Fraud Behind Gay Marriage Data, by @jessesingal (via @bijupunalor)
• Blogging fear: Opportunity costs
• Teen Sylvia Plath writes to Mom on joy of living, writing as salvation by @brainpicker
• Flashback: Denial of coverage: Bham Business Journal banned stories on my company
• @mshrayber details his encounter with @RealGrumpyCat
• Flashback: Wade’s 101: Haiku retrospective 24 #haiku
• The role of black dolls in American culture, by @BritRBennett (RT @AfrikaReads)
• Amy Poehler Is Really Making Herself Uncomfortable, by @BSvetkey
• Red Cross Raised Half Billion Dollars for Haiti ­and Built 6 Homes (via @nic_mclean)
• How a curmudgeonly reporter exposed FIFA scandal, by @MikeMillerDC (RT @nelson_aj)
• The quick, offstage choreography of SNL costume changes, by @RyanVlastelica

More posts from Wade this week:

• Y’all Connect: The last 25 tickets

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• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for May 31, 2015:

• Y’all Connect: Our last two speakers are …
• Why an Oregon official leaked @GovKitz’s emails, by @NigelJaquiss
• “Click-clack the Rattlebag,” by Neil Gaiman @neilhimself
• The art of the brand [Rocket City Bloggers]
• Inside Walt Disney’s Failed City of Tomorrow, by Matt Patches @misterpatches
• Nikki Finke, Feared Hollywood Reporter, Turns to Fiction, by @RaviSomaiya
• Y’all Connect: Spotlight on 2015 speaker Taylor Robinson
• Fanboi @StephenFry talks with Apple’s chief design officer Jony Ive
• John Bohannon Fooled Millions Into Thinking Chocolate Helps Weight Loss. Here’s How
• Flashback: Project Bulk – Day 273: End of the third trimester
• Did your favorite TV show get canceled? 7 possible reasons by Todd VanDerWerff @tvoti
• A Choice for Recovering Addicts: Relapse or Homelessness, by @Kim_Barker
• Escape or Die, by James Verini (RT @thehiphopswami)
• Dunham, Schumer, Ellie Kemper, Kate McKinnon, Gina Rodriguez, Tracee Ellis Ross comedy roundtable

More posts from Wade this week:

• Y’all Connect: Video: Wade visits “Talk of Alabama”
• The Birmingham channel: Making tracks
• Happy Memorial Day

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#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for May 24, 2015:

• Y’all Connect: Our next, next three speakers are …
• Dangerous Bites: Cultural Implications of Food Allergies, by @HapaMamaGrace
• Last steps for Noah Galloway in “Dancing with the Stars” finals
• Hacker @Sidragon1’s Tweet Reignites Ugly Battle Over Security Holes, by @KimZetter
• The art of the brand
• The war on big food, by @BethKowitt
• Flashback: Project Bulk – Day 266: The days go by so fast
• The Watchdog, the Whistleblower, and the Secret CIA Torture Report, by @JasonLeopold
• Fall of the Hipster Brands: Decline of American Apparel, Urban Outfitters, by @LizSegran
• I Can’t Just Look at the Grand Canyon, by @ethicalthinker (RT @FamilyNature)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: What we do in our off-hours

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#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for May 17, 2015:

• Speaking gigs: PRCA North Alabama chapter on Wednesday
• Perfect Nails, Poisoned Workers, by @SarahMaslinNir
• Noah Galloway enters the ring on Week 9 of “Dancing with the Stars”
• A Farewell to the Homewood History Hunt, by @MrJakeCollins #bham
• Y’all Connect: Wade Kwon on “Birmingham Shines” for May 2015
• The Mystery of $2 Bills, by @RickPaulas
• Y’all Connect: 2015 call for volunteers, media and bloggers
• 6 Reasons Modern Movie CGI Looks Surprisingly Crappy, by @MovieHooligan
• Flashback: Project Bulk – Day 266: The days go by so fast
• Deconstructing the Star Beast: How “Alien” Saga Went Wrong, by @Kneumsi (RT @bmbufalo)
• Speaking gigs: See Jane Write on Tuesday
• An Impossible Choice, investigative series on CA “vent farms,” by @JoanneFaryon
• The Secret to Love Is Just Kindness, by @EmEsfahaniSmith
• David Letterman: Happy at Last, by @JoshEells

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: A stage for everyone

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• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for May 10, 2015:

• Y’all Connect: Our next three speakers are …
• Anna Jarvis Was Sorry She Ever Invented Mother’s Day, by @JoelOliphint
• Killing UAB Football Part of Larger Plan for UA Board of Trustees, by @Doctor_Nicolas
• Double time for Noah Galloway on Week 8 of “Dancing with the Stars”
• Can books save us from what digital does to brains? By @HughMcGuire (h/t @mitchjoel)
• How Click Farms Inflate Social Media Currency, by @DougBockClark (RT @kickpointinc)
• Flashback: Project Bulk – Day 253: Feelings, noting more than feelings
• 7 essential @BillSimmons columns
• Kidnapped at the Border, by Sarah Stillman @stillsarita (via @melaniesiow)
• Speaking gigs: Florida Public Relations Association, Pensacola chapter, May 2015
• How a fake newspaper is turning into real media empire, by Chris Heller @c_heller
• Why Cops Like Me Are Quiet on Police Brutality, by @GrahamCC (via @radleybalko)
• The Price of Nice Nails, by @SarahMaslinNir
• Letterman and 23 Writers on Greatest Jokes That Never Made It on Air, with @NellSco

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: A sense of place

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#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for May 3, 2015:

• Y’all Connect: Our new media sponsor: WBHM 90.3 FM
• Author @TFerriss answers questions on Reddit
• Why I’ll always be a “high-maintenance” speaker
• The Moral Bucket List, by @NYTDavidBrooks (RT @MsCarleeJean)
• Noah Galloway gets his strut on for Week 7 of “Dancing with the Stars”
• Birmingham’s @LochamyBrothers profiled by Greg Robinson
• [aff. links] Just read Yes Please by Amy Poehler http://amzn.to/1EMT6Dz, To Sell Is Human by @DanielPink http://amzn.to/1EMTcv4
• 2010: Publishers rejected his poetry book. 2015: Pulitzer. By @xanalter (via @nytimesarts)
• Flashback: 1 year ago, the successful conclusion of Project Bulk
• The Worst Parents Ever, by @MooneyMichaelJ
• “Wheel of Fortune” winner @ChadMosher tells all to Marah Eakin @marahe
• 2 decades ago, $130m sunk into Baltimore neighborhood failed to revive it. (RT @dabeard)
• The higher education sweatshop, by Tanya Paperny @tpaperny (via @NTEUNSW)
• David Letterman Reflects on 33 Years in Late Night, to NYT’s Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Blazer film festival

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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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#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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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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#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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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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• More #sundayread recommendations from me