Sunday, November 12th, 2017
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- Video everywhere, including Facebook page headers
- The Beleaguered Tenants of “Kushnerville,” by @AlecMacGillis
- Crystal City: Frank Lloyd Wright’s lost DC masterpiece by Rodrigo Duran /RT @cave_interiors
- Flashback: Y’all Connect – 5 questions you should ask before guest blogging
- How to Fix Design, by @MattMcCueWriter, @SeanBlanda and Kiana S. (RT @bluescaper)
- The difficulty of finding an egg donor who is a racial match in Canada, by @DakGlobe
- Flashback: At a loss for words: Digital success for nonwriters
- Simone de Beauvoir on The Ethics of Freedom (RT @MLekushoff)
- Plan: Cheap chemo drugs for 6 poor African countries by Donald G McNeil Jr /via @kikiochieng
- Flashback: From 2007, Magic City Mission … Live from Biloxi
- @JohnGreen Tells Story of Emotional Pain and Crippling Anxiety. His Own. By @xanalter
- VA hides shoddy care, health workers’ errors by @DonovanSlack, @MikeSallah7 /via @jonathanderson
- Small Towns, Big Potential, by Morgan Mercer
- What My Mother & I Don’t Talk About by Michele Filgate @readandbreathe /via @_Annie_Crawford
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Sunday, November 5th, 2017
My picks for #sundayread for November 5, 2017:
- Do you need courage to write?
- Why Venture Capitalists Aren’t Funding Businesses We Need by @btschiller (RT @kikiochieng)
- The plot by Trump supporters to murder Somali refugees in a KS town, by @TedGenoways
- @HometownReads has a growing list of Birmingham authors and books #Bham
- How WeRateDogs Turned a Pet Project Into Profit, by Megan Greenwell @megreenwell
- Interview with actor @KevinBacon, by @HadleyFreeman (via @BaxterSally)
- Flashback: Y’all Connect – How much should our brand post on social media?
- The secret lab hidden inside a famous London monument by @ZariaGorvett (RT @LiberMedia)
- The wilderness library, a lonely haven for books, by @PSainath_org (via @NamitaWaikar)
- Flashback: From 2016, Wade’s 101: #Haiku retrospective 40
- Whitney Houston’s secrets, by @BernsteinJacob /RT @supajulie
- The Untold History of Charter Schools, by Rachel Cohen @rmc031 (RT @PPTAWeb)
- The Coming Software Apocalypse, by James Somers @jsomers (via @kachumbali)
- 10 years later, the aftermath of the infamous “2 Girls, 1 Cup” video, by @MilesKlee
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Sunday, October 29th, 2017
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Sunday, October 22nd, 2017
My picks for #sundayread for October 22, 2017:
- Sponsoring Y’all Connect in 2018
- Rap on Race: Margaret Mead & James Baldwin’s Conversation by @BrainPicker /via @32degreeseast
- Africa, the World’s Next Great Manufacturing Center, by Irene Yuan Sun (via @kikiochieng)
- Comfortable language
- Blood, crime, gore: Invisible world of India’s police photographers, by @Paro_ghosh
- Interview with actor @VinDiesel, by @JenYamato (via @TicketSellers)
- Flashback: From 2007, a look at the Birmingham News’ Readers’ Choice Awards
- The Vampire Problem: Brilliant Thought Experiment by @BrainPicker (via @DrSteveMarshall)
- How Big Business Got Brazil Hooked on Junk Food (via @rapha_lapierre @EvyCoul)
- Flashback: Y’all Connect – Don’t tell a story just to tell a story
- Interview with actor-activist Robert Redford, by @MichaelHainey (via @BaxterSally)
- When towns run dry, by @YolandiG roenewald (via @WWFSouthAfrica)
- The great nutrient collapse, by Helena Bottemiller Evich @hbottemiller (via @4PFoods)
- Ebolawood: Liberia’s golden age of film, by @Thomas_Page (via @kikiochieng)
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Sunday, October 15th, 2017
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Sunday, October 8th, 2017
My picks for #sundayread for October 8, 2017:
- Weird but fun places to blog
- In Southern Magazines, Easy Pleasures and Hard Questions, by @RichardFausset
- The Fantastically Strange Origin of Most Coal on Earth, by @rkrulwich (RT @kikiochieng)
- Flashback: Y’all Connect – Great ebook ideas to win new blog subscribers
- After lifetime of hiding, gay refugees seek protection in Canada, by @ZosiaBielski (RT @EvyCoul)
- Canada unveils plan to legalize pot, by @Justin_Ling (RT @mcinnescooper)
- Flashback: My communications credo
- Out of the bell jar: the Write Out Loud poetry club, by Barkha Prasad @Barkha2803
- What Best Transformational Leaders Do by @ScottDAnthony & @eischwartz (via @TheBusinessTN)
- Flashback: In 2007, an upstart beats an incumbent (and 8 others) to become Birmingham’s mayor
- Oral History of “Austin Powers” on the 20th anniversary, compiled by @TheRyanParker
- How Exxon-Mobil knew climate change was caused by humans, by @dana1981 (via @BHenergyservice)
- Can Facebook Fix Its Own Worst Bug? By Farhad Manjoo @fmanjoo (via @BuzzyRocket)
- In a Swimming Pool, Learning to Trust, by @MattGrantWriter
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Sunday, October 1st, 2017
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Sunday, September 24th, 2017
My picks for #sundayread for September 24, 2017:
- Y’all Connect: Building a mythology through storytelling
- The Resegregation of Jefferson County, Ala., by Nikole Hannah-Jones @nhannahjones
- Why Suburban Schools Are Inflating Kids’ Grades, by @JonMarcusBoston (via @WidmeyerED)
- In the beginning: Revisiting blog posts for fun and profit
- Last-Mile Delivery and Rise of Urban Warehouse, by @JBreezeiii33 (via @commsource)
- The woman who never could remember a thing about her past, by @ErikaHayasaki /via @nxthompson
- Y’all Connect 2017 through photos
- How not to create traffic jams, pollution and urban sprawl (RT @kikiochieng)
- The evolution of war photography, by Gaja Pellegrini-Bettoli @gajapell (RT @malakyz)
- Flashback: 2007 preview of Ken Burns’ “The War,” plus @APTV’s “WWII: Alabama Remembers”
- How AI Is Creating Building Blocks to Reshape Music and Art, by @CadeMetz (RT @EvyCoul)
- When Our Troops Are Abandoned & Neglected at Home: reading list on vets compiled by @markarms
- Hurricane Katrina: Beyond the Breach, by Wright Thompson (via @Longreads)
- Digital culture & Thoreau’s Philosophy of Communication by John @TinnellCUdenver /RT @zerecon
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Sunday, September 17th, 2017
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Sunday, September 10th, 2017
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Sunday, September 3rd, 2017
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Sunday, August 27th, 2017
My picks for #sundayread for August 27, 2017:
- Vote 2017: Birmingham municipal election results
- Shifting sights: On UAB, the students and Birmingham, by @Syd_Cromwell #bham
- Becoming Duterte: The Making of a Philippine Strongman, by @RCPaddock (RT @kikiochieng)
- Y’all Connect 2017 through your eyes
- The death of reading is threatening the soul, by Philip Yancey
- Technology Is Biased, Too. How Do We Fix It? By @Laura_Hudson (RT @PPTAWeb)
- Let’s share our why-how-what
- A Liberated Woman: The Story of Margaret King, by @EmmaGarman (via @vsisson13)
- Crimetown USA, by @DavidGrann (via @tejalkpatel)
- Flashback: The rewrite for SEO is on
- The Man Who Invented Scrobbling and Changed the World, by @eliotvb (RT @juliomontas)
- How war on drugs has made drug traffickers more ruthless by @GermanRLopez (via @LDSDems)
- Inmate Isolation: Inside the Battle to Stop Solitary Confinement, by @GabrielleCanon
- Origin Stories, by Rachel Callahan @ObjectivityRach
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Sunday, August 20th, 2017
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Sunday, August 13th, 2017
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Sunday, August 6th, 2017
My picks for #sundayread for August 6, 2017:
- Finished wonderful audiobook, @MarieKondo’s Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: [aff. link] http://amzn.to/2ffUJWv
- Learn in 2 Days What Normally Takes 6 Months, by @BenjaminPHardy (via @smartergerman)
- Inside the Hunt for Russia’s Most Notorious Hacker, by Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg
- Is “17776” the future of storytelling?
- Why Father of Modern Stats Didn’t Think Smoking Caused Cancer by @BenCAbbr /via @jacyreese
- Big Sur lost a bridge. Residents wonder what’s next. By @misterfleming (via @DonnaWares)
- Flashback: Y’all Connect – Superior storytelling starts here
- Who mourns for William Peter Blatty, “The Exorcist” author? By Nicholas Rixon. (via @j_oberoi)
- Muslim doc tries to understand MN neighbors in Trump country, by @mccrummenWaPo /via @LDSDems
- Flashback: How to get 146 retweets on Twitter
- Oral History of @LilithFair, as Told by the Women Who Lived It, compiled by @MsMelissaMaerz
- Calif. was tired of women bleeding to death in childbirth by @juliaoftoronto /via @baratunde
- What about Gary, Ind.? Blaming automation, not immigrants. By @Chris_Arnade (via @Muscogulus)
- Even in 1700s, Book Clubs Really About Drinking, Socializing by @slaskow /via @NeilRussellAuth
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