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Jump! Retweeted by Clay Shirky

17 November 2009 · 0 Comments

On Twitter this weekend:
cshirky: The New Yorker still runs cartoons of crazy people carrying placards. What do 25 y.o’s make of that? In their world, crazy people have blogs
8:07 AM Nov 15th
leesean: @cshirky 25ish y.o.’s like me make mashup/remixes of crazy people with placards and put them on YouTube http://bit.ly/x0BQV
10:28 AM Nov 15th
cshirky: RT @leesean: [...]

Activism · Audio · Music · New York · News · Video · YouTube


NYC Taxicab Rider Bill of Rights AKA Anger Makes an Activist

25 October 2009 · 1 Comment

I’ve had two bad taxi experiences in one weekend. One incident made me furiously angry, which was kind of embarrassing in front of my friends. But I have decided that instead of holding on to my anger and getting angry in the future I am now going to be an activist. I [...]

Activism · New York


Healthcare IS a Right

13 August 2009 · 2 Comments

Healthcare is a human right.  But as the healthcare debate drags on here in the US, its legitimacy as a right is under attack.
Eddie (friend from college) shared on Facebook today an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal by John Mackey, co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods, “The Whole Foods Alternative To ObamaCare”:
Many promoters [...]

Activism · Democracy · Human Rights · Politics


Comments on “In a Digital Future, Textbooks Are History”

10 August 2009 · 5 Comments

This past weekend the New York Times published an article called “In a Digital Future, Textbooks Are History” by Tamar Lewin.  The article profiles the increasing adoption of digital textbooks by school districts as a way of cutting costs and as a way of updating pedagogical methods in response to technological and social advances.  Lewin [...]

Activism · California · Creative Commons · Education · Internet · New York · News


Free the film, Free dolphins

10 August 2009 · 3 Comments

Today, I went to see The Cove, a documentary centering around the annual dolphin slaughter in Taiji, Japan.  As some reviewers have already said, the movie marries spy-thriller suspense with compelling investigative storytelling.  Because of the Japanese government and whaling interests not wanting the story to get out, the filmmakers had to secretly (and perhaps [...]

Activism · Animals · Japan · Japanese · Movies · News · Video · YouTube