Archive for 'Technology'

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…

Customizing ShareThis WordPress plugin

I realized that having the ShareThis links at the end of my blog posts might actually prevent them from being shared as much, assuming that most people won’t read the posts in their entirety (sad, but probably true). So, I decided to add the ShareThis links in the left sidebar where it lists the dateRead More…

I'm back!

I know I’ve said it before, but this time I swear I intend to actually come back to this blog. And by ‘come back’ I only mean actually paying some attention to it, whether that attention is apparent to you or not is irrelevant (to me, obviously). Here are some thoughts on what I’ve beenRead More…

I love the smell of Woot in the morning

Cross-posted on my EchoDitto blog I have to admit – I don’t check w00t.com on a daily basis. Most of the time I’ll check it on a whim, or if my coworkers or friends point me to the site for a cool product. So, it’s for this reason that I point your attention, right now,Read More…

Amazon down. Wow.

I've been busy

You may have noticed (or not, if you’ve just stopped checking all-together) that I haven’t written here in a while. Well I’ve been busy! I, with my limited technical knowledge, helped build a blog focused on the Washington Nationals. Granted I’m a die hard Cubbies fan, as are a few of the writers on river-dogz,Read More…