By bluerasberry on 2018-05-20
Today Sunday 20 May 2018 I went to the University of Virginia (UVA) graduation ceremony which includes “walking the lawn” in front of the Rotunda. The ritual is that graduating students should walk from the Rotunda on UVA grounds through the lawn out into the world as a symbol of taking learning from here to […]
Posted in Charlottesville, education | Tagged death, protest, university
By bluerasberry on 2016-04-13
On Friday-Saturday April 8-9 I participated in the The Huffington Post and Change.org Editors Lab] with Richard Knipel (user:Pharos) and a new friend, Pablo Duboue introduced to me by user:JeremyB. The theme of the event was, “Impact Journalism”, with the question to address being, “How can news organizations develop innovative and interactive ways to create […]
Posted in New York City, Wikipedia | Tagged authority control, conference, protest
By bluerasberry on 2016-02-25
Lila Tretikov (known as “Lila”), executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, just resigned. The cause of her resignation was Doc James‘ request that she directly state the anticipated cost of the Knowledge Engine project and publish and discuss the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation employee satisfaction survey. She and the Wikimedia Foundation Establishment declined to provide this […]
Posted in non-profit, Wikipedia | Tagged James Heilman, money, protest
By bluerasberry on 2015-07-05
As a paid professional who is employed to encourage volunteers to donate their labor so that Wikipedia can be developed with their crowdsourcing, I feel that I have expert insight into the relationship between staff and volunteers in online collaboration. This is a niche field and the relationships between staff and volunteers are broadly misunderstood, […]
Posted in rights | Tagged class struggle, protest, reddit, wealth
By bluerasberry on 2012-11-25
I went to see Reverend Billy at the Highline Ballroom on Sunday 25 November 2012. Chuck had received some notice that he would be preaching and when he told me about this, I was excited and went. I had been a fan of Reverend Billy since about 1999, about the same time I discovered Adbusters. […]
Posted in New York City, religion | Tagged consumer rights, protest, Reverend Billy
By bluerasberry on 2012-08-12
I visited the Museum of the City of New York, El Museo del Barrio, the Museum of Arts and Design, and the Noguchi Museum this weekend. I also went again to the Metropolitan Museum of Art – this being perhaps my tenth time there and I still have not walked through all the galleries – […]
Posted in art, education, museum, New York City, tour | Tagged industrial design, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Noguchi, protest, Shakespeare
By bluerasberry on 2009-01-01
In my previous post I showed a picture of the view of Seattle to the south of where I live. Immediately north of where I live is what used to be a house where a lot of kids met until about three months ago, when this house was closed by the landlord and all the […]
Posted in health, presentation, Seattle | Tagged homeless, police, protest, youth