This is a fascinating read by the brilliant Gladwell. In it, he draws a distinction between networked activism (twitter/facebook) and “old-school” hierarchical machine-style mobilization. He contrasts the intimate connections between local NAACP/CORE desegregation activists with the successful efforts of a contemporary New Yorker to retrieve his lost/stolen mobile through the use of social media. He [...]
Taken directly from James Howard Kuntsler’s Blog: Here come the Corn Pone Nazis! Fox News entertainer, former drug addict, and professional weeper Glenn Beck took center stage at the Lincoln Memorial exactly forty-seven years to the day after Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech for a rally dedicated to “restoring honor,” which is [...]
Regular readers will know of my fondness for Bill Moyers, and his thoughtful brand of journalism. The conversation below with Barry Lopez, someone of whom I had not heard, is simply marvelous. I’ll miss the Journal badly. Bill brought an inquisitive, boyish and affirming spirit to his work; in so doing, he gave voice to [...]
On Storytelling
Regular readers will know of my fondness for Bill Moyers, and his thoughtful brand of journalism. The conversation below with Barry Lopez, someone of whom I had not heard, is simply marvelous. I’ll miss the Journal badly. Bill brought an inquisitive, boyish and affirming spirit to his work; in so doing, he gave voice to [...]