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17th of January 2012
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Reading Landscape by Kyle Kirkpatrick
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22nd of December 2011
20th of October 2011
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I wish I had a library card. I would love to have a library card to a university library, and see what they have in there and find deeper stuff. But they’re not that easy to get. Every few years I will say to some intern at some place that I’m working, “Hey, do you have a library card? Could you, like, give me your library card?” It’s a shame, because journalists really should have access to them. And public libraries are pretty but slow. You have to order everything, and it’s incredibly expensive to Xerox it. They should have a journalist card. Even JSTOR. Anything. How do you get this stuff, to put your features in a different realm? We all know how to do it, and how you do it is you start getting some journals, and you start looking for academic books that have a historical perspective, and it’s not that easy to do that. I’m just going to set aside a million dollars right there to get us all library cards. ”
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New York, Rolling Stone, and Vanity Fair contributing editor Vanessa Grigoriadis lays out her media diet. Read more at The Atlantic Wire. (via theatlantic)
7th of October 2011
Please put out the word for Amit!
How to use Tumblr to save your own life:
Two weeks ago I got a call from my doctor, who I’d gone to see the day before because I’d been feeling worn out and was losing weight, and wasn’t sure why.
He was brief: “Amit, you’ve got Acute Leukemia. You need to enter treatment right away.”
I was terrified. I packed a backpack full of clothes, went to the hospital as he’d instructed, and had transfusions through the night to allow me to take a flight home at 7am the next day. I Googled acute leukemia as I lay in my hospital bed, learning that if it hadn’t been caught, I’d have died within weeks.
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I have a couple more months of chemo to go, then the next step is a bone marrow transplant. As Jay and Tony describe below, minorities are severely underrepresented in the bone marrow pool, and I need help.
A few ways to help:
- If you’re South Asian, get a free test by mail. You rub your cheeks with a cotton swab and mail it back. It’s easy.
- If you’re in NYC, you can go to this event my friends are putting on.
- If you know any South Asians (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives, or Sri Lanka), please point ‘em to the links above. Thank you.
My friend Amit Gupta founded my favorite photography site Photojojo. A few weeks ago, he was diagnosed with leukemia. Amit is one of the nicest, most genuine, most creative people you could ever meet. Prior to founding the awesome Photojojo, he also co-founded Jelly in 2006 in NYC, a coworking community, that’s now spread to 60 cities across the world and helped spark the coworking revolution. It looks like Amit will need a bone marrow transplant quite soon. We can help him with that.
Unlike blood transfusions, finding a genetic match for bone marrow that his body will accept is no easy task. The national bone marrow registry has 9.5 million records on file, yet the chances of someone from South Asian descent of finding a match are only 1 in 20,000.
This is where we come in. We’re going to destroy those odds.
How? By finding and registering as many people of South Asian descent as we possibly can.
Tests are easy– a simple swab of the cheek. If you’re a match, the donation involves an outpatient procedure. It’s not fun, but it’s not dangerous either. And doing it could save a life.
We are encouraging anyone of South Asian descent to take a test to see if you’re a match.
You can get a free test by mail, or, if you’re in New York, you can join us Friday, October 14th for a special party to rally support.
We’ll have test kits on hand at the party, as well as music, booze, and maybe even a photo booth. It will, for the first time, combine a House 2.0-style party with a New Work City-style party, and if you’ve ever been to either, you know they are always something special.
Please spread the word and please do everything you can to help Amit beat leukemia. He’s a superstar.
Much thanks to Tony and pals for organizing this event, and EVERYONE who’s been tweeting and reblogging.
Please help get the word out any way you can. My life quite literally depends on it.
My cousin once had a life-saving bone-marrow transplant. I went out to Seattle for a while while it was happening.
Amit Ghupta is an awesome person.
Are you of South Asian descent? Help save his life.
What the Catalog Card Tells Us by bibliovox on Flickr.
31st of August 2011
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30th of August 2011
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