with my two hands... i can change the world
צֶדֶק צֶדֶק, תִּרְדֹּף
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Just sayin’
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Chris Hughes: Gladwell on Social Media
One of Malcolm Gladwell’s favorite activities is taking a contrarian position on a popular topic. He learned early on that it’s a very effective way of garnering attention, regardless of the merit of the argument. Sometimes he’s right on, like with his most recent book Outliers. But…
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Don’t just post, do something.
I’m really happy that everyone is posting and reblogging the ‘It Gets Better’ videos from various famous people.
It’s great that tumblr, twitter and Facebook are filled with posts, tweets and groups where people are expressing outrage over the 6 suicides of gay teens last week.
It’s cool that some people came up with a “wear purple day” to commemorate the victims of homophobic harassment/bullying.
But what does all that do? Not a whole lot of anything.
Online activism is fantastic, if something comes of it.
Use Facebook to arrange a meeting at your school, where people can discuss organizing an event, an assembly, a fundraiser, or a conference.
Use twitter to promote the event, to get input from other people and to plan what you’re going to do to help prevent this from happening again.
Use tumblr to get new ideas, to crowdsource media and to give others ideas after your event is over.
It may be overused, but Margaret Mead said it best;
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
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This man is the definition of gorgeous. Also generous, socially conscious, brilliant, funny, cute and humble.
(Chris Hughes is a co-founder of Facebook, the brains behind Obama’s web campaign and a massive supporter of human rights causes in the US) -
One of my favorite power couples
For whatever reason, this happened and I wasn’t informed. What does this mean? Admittedly, not much. Following this guy is as close as I come to celebrity gossip but, still, Chris is getting hitched (sometime soon)! I think it’s important that one of the wealthiest members of the gay community lead the charge in marriage equality. And I think it’s great that he and his partner are committed to GLBT issues and like to remain out of the lime light. His significant personal resources aside, he’s a good speaker and has more than proved himself as an “idea man”. I’m curious to see where his continued success takes him. You can investigate his newest venture here.
While I’m not a huge fan of queerty as a news source, I love that Chris Hughes is getting marries. So happy for him. He really is one of the most important minds of our generation.
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One of the things you learn as a college president is that if an undergraduate is wearing a tie and jacket on Thursday afternoon at three o’clock, there are two possibilities. One is that they’re looking for a job and have an interview; the other is that they are an asshole. This was the latter case.
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#Anonymous plans on taking down Facebook on November 5th. Guy Fawkes would ‘like’ that. #OpFacebook
Idiotic. While I think the message #Anonymous has is generally a good one (in that it brings light to things that some authorities would rather keep hushed up), Guy Fawkes would have no interest in taking down Facebook and would certainly not ‘like’ it.
Guy Fawkes’ only interest in his “gunpowder plot” was to kill the King - not because the King represented tyranny, but because the King was protestant. Fawkes’ plan was to replace him with a Catholic King.
Also, for what it’s worth, it doesn’t matter if Facebook is selling our information to “information security firms.” Those firms - notably Lockheed Martin, already owns all our personal information - they handle the census information for the US, Canada and the UK.
I’m all for political activism, but do it right.
(Source: rubinreport)
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So this happened today
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