Sunday, July 30th, 2017
My picks for #sundayread for July 30, 2017:
- Let’s go to Y’all Connect 2017!
- The Decline of Black Business, by @BrianSFeldman (via @SlaughterAM @K_T_Reader)
- Alabama church child care centers don’t need licenses. And it’s dangerous. By @acvollers
- Y’all Connect: The future of showrooming
- 17776: What football will look like in the future, by @Jon_Bois
- Robert Mercer, Tycoon Behind Trump Presidency, by @JaneMayerNYer (via @ErikLundegaard)
- Flashback: Y’all Connect – A beginner’s guide to sharing curation
- 10 Learnings from 10 Years of @BrainPickings, by @BrainPicker (via @mysoulswoons)
- Southern-style barbecue from Iowa’s Marlando “Big Moe” Cason, by @dixiebureau
- Flashback: Blogging fear: Not knowing where to start
- Frustration, uncertainty, layoffs: @jhorowitz33’s takeover of Fox Sports Digital, by @bkoo
- Children of the opioid epidemic are flooding foster homes, by @Julia_Lurie
- The Devastating Process of Dying in America Without Insurance, by Mark Betancourt
- How to do nothing, by Jenny Odell @the_jennitaur (via @OppositeBooks)
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Sunday, July 23rd, 2017
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Sunday, July 16th, 2017
My picks for #sundayread for July 16, 2017:
- Hard questions about Facebook, from Facebook
- Why Diversity Programs Fail, by Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev (RT @metavallon)
- Alabama Auto Boom-Low Wages, Little Training, Crushed Limbs by Peter Waldman /RT @PattyLaya
- Y’all Connect: 2017 call for media/bloggers
- Book review: Nancy Weiss Malkiel’s “Keep the Damned Women Out” (via @kikiochieng)
- The Train Line That Brought Twin Cities Together, by @ErickTrickey (via @kikiochieng)
- Flashback: Y’all Connect – The shape of stories to come
- The secret plan for the days after the Queen’s death, by @SamKnightWrites (RT @tgel0)
- Friends to Strangers: Greek Immigrants and Alabama Food, by Jennifer Kornegay @jko1974
- Flashback: Y’all Connect – It takes just 6 months to change perceptions
- Nina Simone: Her Art and Life in 33 Songs (via @JonFarriss)
- Liberal faith leaders fight Trump’s policies, by @lauriegnyt (via @stoham)
- The Long, Lonely Road of Chelsea Manning @xychelsea, by @MatthewShaer (RT @S3micolon)
- Reinventing the toilet, by @LinaZeldovich
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Sunday, July 9th, 2017
My picks for #sundayread for July 9, 2017:
- The minimalist blog
- Eternal champions: The unthinkable fate of Chapecoense, by @SamBorden
- What Is an Influencer? By @Sar_Harris (via @bryanboy @FashionUnfold)
- Y’all Connect: Don’t forget to include the Stinky Cow
- A Sociology of the Smartphone, by Adam Greenfield @agpublic (RT @Canopyinsight)
- What’s Wrong with Apple’s New Headquarters, by Adam Rogers @jetjocko
- Flashback: Y’all Connect – It takes just 6 months to change perceptions
- The Myth of the Entrepreneur, by @JanessaLantz (RT @metavallon)
- How black-market OxyContin spurred a town’s descent into crime, addiction and heartbreak
- Wade’s 6,000th on Birmingham
- @E_AlexJung talks to “Orphan Black” stars @TatianaMaslany http://bit.ly/2tucW5e and @JordanGavaris http://bit.ly/2sUj4Xr
- Outsmarted: The liberal cult of the cognitive elite, by @RickPerlstein (via @cookemooke)
- @MelinaMatsoukas, Provocateur Behind Beyoncé, Rihanna, by @alexis_ok (via @loganapayne)
- Why We’re Still Reading “My Utmost for His Highest,” by @MacyHalford (RT @WordMusicTV)
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Sunday, July 2nd, 2017
My picks for #sundayread for July 2, 2017:
- The virtue of brevity in writing
- The Rise of Roxane Gay, by Molly McArdle @mollitudo (RT @Longreads)
- What Calling Congress Achieves, by @KathrynSchulz (via @LDSDems)
- Y’all Connect: A prescription for powerful storytelling
- Most claims about inequality are groundless. One is not. By @TylerCowen (via @Longreads)
- Future of Not Working, on automation & universal income by @AnnieLowrey /via @kikiochieng
- Flashback: Y’all Connect – These metrics apps bring statistical clarity to social media
- How @AhmedDHussen rose to become Canada’s border man (RT @kikiochieng)
- @JDVance1, the False Prophet of Blue America, by @OneSarahJones
- Flashback: Everything you need to know about getting attention
- Jon Bon Jovi on hard work, losing wingman, US inequality by @LudoHunter (RT @Garigalicious)
- India, Once a Coal Goliath, Is Fast Turning Green, by @GOAnand (via @stevetrashrocks)
- Aleppo After the Fall, by @RobertFWorth (via @ashleytressel)
- The Rise of Dating-App Fatigue, by @JulieEBeck (via @AmyLaurentMatch)
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Sunday, June 25th, 2017
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Sunday, June 18th, 2017
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Sunday, June 11th, 2017
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Sunday, June 4th, 2017
My picks for #sundayread for June 4, 2017:
- Y’all Connect: A crowd favorite returns for 2017
- Phones are now indispensable for refugees (RT @Longreads)
- “My Family’s Slave,” plus related pieces to the shocking Atlantic cover story
- Get a second opinion
- The Erasure of Islam from the Poetry of Rumi, by @Rozina_Ali (via @TeaAndTemerity)
- Adventures of a cop in Bagaha, India, by Vikas Vaibhav @vaibhav_iitk
- Flashback: The mommyblogger who dared speak her mind
- How to Spot Fascism Before It’s Too Late, by Maia Kobabe
- The Big Cheese, by Emma Donoghue @EDonoghueWriter (via @EvyCoul)
- Flashback: Y’all Connect – Why Bitly is the only link shortener you need
- Zuckerberg Manifesto, Blueprint for Destroying Journalism by @AdrienneLaF (via @BaxterSally)
- As climate warms, bacteria & viruses are waking up, by @JasminFoxSkelly (via @RenaissancePete)
- Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Plays With Fire, by @MikeIsaac
- How Resilience Works, by Diane Coutu
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Sunday, May 28th, 2017
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Sunday, May 21st, 2017
My picks for #sundayread for May 21, 2017:
- Y’all Connect: A new venue, a new format for 2017
- Lead Ammo Poses Real Risks. Why Won’t Gun Owners Switch? By @LynnePeeps (via @Muscogulus)
- Why Poverty Is Like a Disease, by @ChristianCooper
- A rule of thirds for writing
- Military Times’ best books of 2016, by J. Ford Huffman (RT @MarriageByProxy)
- How Brexit vote revealed Britain’s divided culture, by Lynsey Hanley (RT @miss_agata)
- Flashback: It’s always Peak TV in blogging and social media
- Raid on Mount Carmel: ATF agents on Waco Branch Davidian raid, by @stjbs (via @tejalkpatel)
- Getting the right cultural fit for digital transformation, by @swanny_s (via @SKellyCEO)
- Flashback: Y’all Connect – The world of Facebook Live
- 4chan: The Skeleton Key to the Rise of Trump, by @DaleBeran (via @supajulie)
- Broken US Immigration Program Funds Luxury Development, by @KristonCapps (via @CrayKain)
- How to send an entire life of research into question, by @CathleenOGrady (via @CockRobin)
- Libraries are sanctuaries of civil society, by @TrevorHerriot (via @FamilyNature)
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Sunday, May 14th, 2017
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Sunday, May 7th, 2017
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Sunday, April 30th, 2017
My picks for #sundayread for April 30, 2017:
- Y’all Connect: Dress up your YouTube profile page
- The High Price of Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Life, by @TaffyAkner (RT @stoham)
- Fighting climate change with woolly mammoths, by Ross @Andersen (RT @berkers)
- The post I’ll promote till the sun collapses
- Roger Federer: Man Who Became King at Australian Open, by Sandeep Dwivedi (via esurendernegi)
- How The New York Times Is Clawing Its Way into Future, by @GabrielSnyder (via @DonnaWares)
- Flashback: Readers are rock stars!
- A Journey Into the Merriam-Webster Word Factory, by @JennySchuessler (RT @vsisson13)
- You have a destiny and AI knows it, by Tyagarajan Sundaresan @tyags6 (RT @metavallon)
- Flashback: Wade’s 1,000th on Birmingham
- Oral history of “Speed” by character actors playing bus riders, compiled by @KrisTapley
- How ISIS Guides World’s Terror Plots From Afar, by @RCallimachi (via @AlexScoville)
- Following the Money of Mass Incarceration, by @PWpolicy and @BRabuy
- Beat Generosity Burnout, by @AdamMGrant and @RebRebele (via @kikiochieng)
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Sunday, April 23rd, 2017
My picks for #sundayread for April 23, 2017:
- The habit of writing
- Caregiving: A Burden So Heavy, Until It’s Gone, by @MargaretRenkl (via @LillyTrials)
- I’m an adult carer, and it’s jeopardizing my business, by @JaneBinnion (via @SKellyCEO)
- A smarter way to respond to tweets
- 33 Amazing Six-Word Stories, compiled by @AnjaPatel (via @AnaVeciana)
- Let’s ditch the dangerous idea that life is a story, by Galen Strawson
- Y’all Connect: Is Silicon Valley turning us into smartphone junkies?
- Indian mythology is new medium of choice for feminist narratives, by @URM1 (RT @j_oberoi)
- What’s behind the urge to uncover an “authentic self”? By @MWLovelock (via @a_purbasari)
- Flashback: Wade’s 101: Haiku retrospective 38
- The Self-Publishing Train Wreck Is Upon Us, by @Derek_Haines
- ESPN Has Seen Future of TV, and It’s Not Really Into It, by @iboudway and @chafkin
- Unbelievable Story of Most Expensive Record Sold on Discogs, by @cushac (via @jordiekilby)
- Wandering New Orleans After Seeing It From the Stage, by @dessadarling
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