Originally posted at socialaxcess.com The revolt in Egypt has shades of the Green Revolution of 2009 in Iran. Like then, the revolution has been supported and promoted by social media like Twitter, YouTube and Facebook. Iran cracked down hard, blocking many IP addresses and making the internet so slow that it was difficult to use, …
Monthly Archive: January 2011
Jan 28 2011
David Kato Slain
Since I’ve been talking about civil discourse, I think I really need to talk about the tragic death of David Kato. David Kato was an LGBT activist in Uganda, where homosexuality is illegal and where a bill was introduced in 2009 suggesting the death penalty for anyone convicted of committing homosexual acts. Much of the …
Jan 27 2011
Social Axcess
So, biggish news, I’m working as a staff writer at social axcess and writing about social media. Which is just about as meta as it gets. I don’t know that there’s much that isn’t post modern about blogging, but there you have it. My first post went up and there’s even a little picture and …
Jan 26 2011
Forum Network: Civil Discourse
Forum Network is a site from PBS and NPR that’s created a new series about promoting civil discourse, particularly in the wake of the shootings in Arizona. They sent me an e-mail asking me to check out the site and promote it if I thought it was something I liked, and I do like it …
Jan 25 2011
Woman Jailed and Fined for Sending Kids to Wrong School
A woman lied about her address so that her kids could go to a different school. This happens all the time. I know, because my parents did it. They said I lived at rental property they owned so that I could go to the best public school in town. Is it legal? Not really. Is …
Jan 25 2011
Academy Award Noms: Lee Smith Snubbed
Last year I listed who I thought was going to win, but this year I think I’m going to list who I want to win. Let me start with something that you’ll find running through all this commentary, Lee Smith edited the most technically impressive film of the year, Inception. You’ll find that he did …
Jan 21 2011
Keith Olbermann: WTF
He was fired? Doesn’t he have the best ratings on MSNBC? I mean, I’m no particular fan of Olbermann, and he has a tendency to be histrionic, but he occasionally says things very well. Fired just like that… Was it Comcast? Anderson Cooper, you silver fox, you must get on the news and tell us …
Jan 09 2011
Assassination Attempt on Giffords: Religion Enters the Picture
You know, it’s never good when religion gets involved with these things. The Westboro Baptist Church (aka We’re Bugfuck Crazy) is hailing Jared Lee Loughner as a hero and going to picket at the funerals of the shooting victims. Your federal judge is dead and your (fag-promoting, baby-killing, proud-sinner) Congresswoman fights for her life. God …
Jan 09 2011
Are The New Viewers Gone Yet?
My website exploded yesterday. I’ve had some big days, thanks to links from PZ, but I actually went viral all on my own yesterday. I mean, nothing like Afro Ninja, but I was a top ten post on WordPress with 20k hits in 12 hours. The hits have already become relatively anemic compared to that, …
Jan 08 2011
Sarah Palin’s Target List and the Assassination of Gabrielle Giffords
Gabrielle Giffords is a Democratic representative from Arizona, who was reportedly shot in the head today at a political event in her hometown of Tucson. There are rumors, but no official word on whether she has survived yet. What I’d like to point people to is something that is in incredibly bad taste, and was …
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Kate Donovan
Ashley's co-blogger is a third year student at Northwestern University who runs on coffee and snark. . At some point, she'd like to make people sit on couches and tell her about their feelings, but right now she writes in different places around the internet and makes silly faces when she doesn't know what to say. She's the president of her local Secular Student Alliance affiliate, and she is on the Secular Woman speakers bureau. Opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Secular Student Alliance
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