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On Storytelling: First thoughts from Web of Change

In March of this year I worked on a political campaign in Nigeria, and it absolutely changed how I think about activism and movements. Ironically, it wasn’t necessarily the experience on the campaign itself that made the difference, it was being in Nigeria during an election season while a tsunami hit Japan, Egypt continued itsRead More…

3 campaigners, 6 years, 7 schools: Building Tomorrow

Cross-posted from my EchoDitto blog. How much did your elementary education cost? The clever folks at Building Tomorrow have found a great way to use that simple question to drive an innovative campaign that connects the costs of a primary school education in the United States to the work they do building schools in Uganda.Read More…

On being a (moderately successful) photographer

Over a year ago, in late October/early November of 2009, I bought my first “real” camera – a Canon 20D. I was nervous, but psyched. I had always been interested in photography, and before this had been using a film camera (gasp), a Nikon N55. The pics I was taking on my Nikon were goodRead More…

Austin

Last weekend I went to Austin to visit Cristen, snapped some photos, had a few margaritas, launched a website, ate bbq, went hiking (and got lost), saw a UT football game, and ate and drank at an awesome brewpub. Did I mention the Legos?

Today I Learned: PHP handlers & .htaccess

At work, we have an email thread that goes around daily, called “Today I learned.” It is how it sounds – we share things we’ve learned as we build functionality for sites, mostly using Drupal or WordPress. It’s pretty rare for a day to go by without a today I learned email. I enjoy theRead More…

Blogging, Day Three

I’m already getting a little frustrated with the “blog every day” thing I brought upon myself, but in an effort to overcome my own laziness, here I am. I’m taking the easy road, though, and instead of blogging something worthwhile or possibly even interesting, I’m going to tell you about my shoulder. About a yearRead More…

Pimping out WordPress Admin

First, let me assure you that this entire blog will not revolve around WordPress, but for now, that’s how it seems to be going. On Saturday I wrote about the admin menu I found for WordPress called Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu. When I emailed the tech team at work, I got a response fromRead More…