February 2012
6 posts
MissionPeru: Canto Grande →
missionperu:
My fellow students and myself had a great two days working in Canto Grande. At first we were all taken back by the level of poverty of the families and dilapidation of the homes. But I think I can speak for everyone in how quickly we fell in love with the community. The locals welcomed us into…
MissionPeru: Serving in Canto Grande →
missionperu:
Our first day of service saw us in Canto Grande. This poor barrio (called a ‘pueblo joven’ in Peru) is on the outskirts of Lima. It is there that the Christian Brothers run a school called ‘Fe y Alegria 26’, one of a system of schools funded by the government but run by religious communities which…
The Wired Nonprofit 2012: #wnpNYU Thursday Links:... →
thewirednonprofit2012:
Greetings once again Wired Nonprofiteers! Here’s the Thursday serving of linkages from the network related to yesterday’s class discussions. Please read, watch, share, and discuss.
We talked about leadership and its qualities, both inside and outside organizations. This Forbes post by Chris…
November 2011
1 post
Occupy Words: Mic check catches on →
wordsofoccupy:
The Occupy movement seems to be prototyping new language and civic ritual. Fascinating to see the lexicon of dissent growing as we watch. Reuters’ Laird Harrison concludes that the ‘human mic; (or ‘mic check’) is at least a part of Occupy culture. I predict that this weird, awkward…
August 2011
3 posts
“Those public charities are a screen to cover his private iniquities.”
– Holmes on philanthropy…
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Collection (4 Novels and 46 Short Stories… by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“In a larger sense, the anarchists were doomed by their own contradictions. They...”
– From Crazy ‘08 by Cait N. Murphy
The story of the 1908 baseball season also has some links to our own times - I found the description of the anarchist movement of those days eerily similar to some of the rhetoric from Julian Assange and his followers, as well as Anonymous, Lulzsec and the...
June 2011
9 posts
Matt Galligan: Things I'd like to see in... →
mattgalligan:
First off, if you haven’t heard of Turntable.fm, what rock have you been hiding under? It’s the new killer music site started by Stickybits founders Seth Goldstein and Billy Chasen. Basically you join a room, where up to five DJs are spinning their tracks for an audience, sometimes…
Happy 69th birthday Paul McCartney - this is my...
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April 2011
1 post
Mad Men and Women →
For fans of Matthew Weiner’s Mad Men, on temporary hiatus due to rancorous contractual disputes and John Slattery’s commitment to embarrassing “Smarter Than Luxury” Lincoln…
March 2011
4 posts
WatchSleetstorm over Manhattan
Love this tune, and here’s pretty good...
Japan Faces Nuclear Disaster
February 2011
2 posts
From Cairo to Algiers →
Instant movies on Netflix, streamed through my son’s hand-me-down xBox (he’s traded up) brought me to the teeming streets of a North African revolt a few weeks ago, in my insanely prescient…
The Revolution Will be Televised →
You won’t find it on Time Warner or FIOS or Cablevision, but Al Jazeera’s English language television service is laying claim to the viewing loyalty of vast numbers of news-hungry,…
January 2011
5 posts
RT @orbooks: We’ve done it now…we’re thrilled to announce WIKILEAKS AND THE AGE OF TRANSPARENCY by Micah L. Sifry! pre-order… http:/ …
Pablo Eisenberg: Unintended Consequences of Giving... →
Only a tiny fraction of their money is channeled to low-income oriented nonprofits, grassroots organizations, local social service groups or advocacy and activist organizations.
The Field: Tucson: An Eye for an Eye Blinds All →
…little has changed in the essence of the American character, except that technology, and in particular, media, have ramped up the echo chamber that takes a violent act in one corner (Memphis, Los Angeles, Tucson) and brings such tragedies and traumas at higher speed and reverberation to every TV room, every workplace, every school, every home, and to the inner dialogue of every lone...
“Twitter beta-tested a spine.”
– Twitter’s Response to WikiLeaks Subpoena Should Be the Industry Standard | Threat Level | Wired.com (via fred-wilson)
December 2010
13 posts
Reading #wikileaks cables - frankly feeling good about paying diplomatic corps salaries - smart, committed, good at listening.
Stuck inside of Best Buy with those Memphis blues again
Opening the Conversation: Fiscal Future Daily http://bit.ly/fjyfbX
RT @dallant: Be strong, New York friends going through torrential downpour. I’m bringing you some California sun! @tomwatson @jennedeau …
Help stop hate on Long Island! http://bit.ly/gJe9tq
Negative reaction to Starbucks #Share - why? - because they line-jumped on Twitter
RT @peterdaou: This is a world where a woman is sentenced to hang for “blasphemy” http://bit.ly/dXIdhT
RT @geoffliving The Zoetica Salon, a free community for NPOs on @kanter’s Facebook page http://ow.ly/3hUYC
Can’t help but wonder what $3.5 mil for Jumo giving platform could have done for real network innovation like @socialactions
RT @FiscalFuture: It’s official: Deficit Commission Postpones vote until Friday http://bit.ly/e4Glh2 But stay tuned: they’ll unveil a ‘f …
Jumo Grabs the Hype, But What’s the Value? http://bit.ly/ffN6k9
Speaking to great Connecticut nonprofits next week - sign up here - it’s free! http://bit.ly/gS3wIj
RT @bowbrick: Gawker redesign interesting refinement but probably not “an evolution of the very blog form” http://lifehac.kr/ge8Icx #fb
November 2010
37 posts
The Jets are bragging that they topped the Patriots in Twitter folos - yet they *bought* a folo rec. Twitter is dying….
RT @SMacLaughlin: 68% of nonprofits reported increased demand for services in the first nine months of 2010. http://ow.ly/3gM01 #nptrends
Contrarian view on #wikileaks - proof that mainstream journalism really is in dark about U.S. intel?
RT @peterdaou: OK to be morally conflicted about #Cablegate. Competing interests of transparency, privacy, diplomacy aren’t easily recon …
RT @hardaway: Twitter has suggested a “promoted” account for me to follow. No chance, Twitter. Just for that one reason.
‘A rising tide has lifted all yachts’ - Warren Buffett on tax cuts for the wealthy