Go Geeks: Mark Horvath Wins $50K
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 Posted in Internet, Society | No Comments »So homeless advocate Mark Horvath won the SXSW Pepsi Challenge. I stayed up until midnight on Monday night sending out tweets, bugging people to tweet and watching the parade of #RefreshGary hashtags come in. We went to sleep pretty sure ...
The InvisiblePeople.tv Book
Monday, March 15th, 2010 Posted in Books, Society | 3 Comments »I've been tweeting and blogging about the SXSW Pepsi Challenge all weekend (and will be until midnight tonight) trying to win a $50,000-grant for homeless advocate Mark Horvath and his InvisiblePeople.tv project. A few tweets could earn Mark the support ...
Geeks Doing Good: Help Mark Horvath Win $50,000
Sunday, March 14th, 2010 Posted in Society, Technology | No Comments »The SXSW Interactive Festival is going on this weekend in Austin, Texas. It's a bigtime collection of web geeks (and yes, I so wish I could be there). The cool thing about web geeks is that they care about causes. ...
Haiti Update from Lauren Stanley
Monday, February 15th, 2010 Posted in Society, World News | No Comments »Last night I went to hear Rev. Lauren Stanley speak about the relief efforts in Haiti (after catching the end of the Daytona 500, of course, which made me a little late). She is a missionary of the Episcopal Church ...
Consistency is the Key to Generosity
Thursday, February 11th, 2010 Posted in Society | 1 Comment »I meet with my tax guy today, which means I've been frantically pulling together forms and statements and crunching numbers. I hate accounting and I'm horribly disorganized when it comes to that stuff. Which is exactly why I hire a ...
Don’t Give, Don’t Get: Israel’s Organ Donor Law
Monday, January 25th, 2010 Posted in Health, Society | 1 Comment »I heard a very fascinating report on NPR last week about a new organ donor law in Israel. In response to an extreme shortage of organ donors, Israel decided to take drastic action and enacted a law that seeks to ...
Why Haiti Matters: Compassion by Connection
Thursday, January 21st, 2010 Posted in Society, Technology | No Comments »As the Haiti earthquake has come and gone I still find myself transfixed by the coverage. Short bursts of 140 characters, video clips, pictures, news articles. As stories come in it's hard to ignore. And it's not the bird's eye ...
Color4aCause: Kids Color to Help Haiti
Sunday, January 17th, 2010 Posted in Art, Society | No Comments »By Friday morning the flood of stories from Haiti started to get to me and I wanted to help. I'd already donated, but I wanted to do more. So I started thinking of crazy ideas. And I tweeted like mad ...
More People Are Dying Than Ever Before!: Facts Need Context
Monday, January 11th, 2010 Posted in Society | 1 Comment »It always bugs me when facts are presented without the appropriate context. One of the worst offenders is when today's numbers of a set population are compared to previous numbers in history. For example, an often repeated fact during the ...
Mark Horvath on CNN.com
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 Posted in Friends, Society | No Comments »My day started by seeing the face of my friend Mark Horvath on the front page of CNN.com. Mark Horvath is a tireless advocate for the homeless and founder of InvisiblePeople.tv. Earlier this year Mark did a national road trip ...
