By bluerasberry on 2016-12-02
Since I have arrived in 2012, Consumer Reports has been in a series of management and operation shakeups related to converting from a primarily paper publication to a primarily digital service. Since moving to New York City to join CR, I have had the experience of meeting other media professionals in NYC whose observations about […]
Posted in computer, Consumer Reports, New York City | Tagged publishing
By bluerasberry on 2016-11-17
I had the positive experience of publishing a paper titled “Why Medical Schools Should Embrace Wikipedia” in Academic Medicine, which is the journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges. Their conference was in Seattle Saturday 12 November to 15 November, and as an author I could present the paper at the conference. I wanted […]
Posted in HIV, Seattle | Tagged Evan J. Peterson, history, Lee Haertel, Pat Slaven
By bluerasberry on 2016-11-16
In November 2016 I and my friend Lee went on a tour of about 10 cannabis shops in Seattle. Cannabis is legal in Washington state. Lee and I have both done regular activism toward legalization of cannabis for years, with us participating since 2001 when I moved to Seattle and him participating for years before […]
Posted in Seattle, Wikipedia | Tagged marijuana, politics, Vivian McPeak
By bluerasberry on 2016-11-13
Earlier in the year Ann Matsuuchi (wiki user:Mozucat) and Ximena Gallardo (wiki user:Doctorxgc) had done a pilot project in which several of their students developed the Wikipedia article HIV/AIDS in New York City based on source material and insights collected in the Ed Koch Archives. On Thursday 10 November I visited them at their school […]
Posted in education, gay stuff, HIV, New York City, non-profit, research, Wikipedia | Tagged library
By bluerasberry on 2016-11-12
The process elected Trump to be President of the United States on 8 November. Lots of people are publishing reactions. I am from Texas, and because I know the culture there, I always felt that Trump was a respectable candidate from the perspective of my culture of birth. Most of my friends are in Seattle […]
Posted in election, New York City, Seattle | Tagged harassment, politics, president, violence
By bluerasberry on 2016-10-15
I am happy to have been among the organizers for the October 2016 WikiConference North America. I had previously helped to organize the conference in New York and another in DC. It is nice that attendees of the previous conferences and the general Wikipedia community appreciated those conferences enough to give more support for continuing […]
Posted in DC, New York City, non-profit, San Diego, service industry, Wikipedia | Tagged conference, management
By bluerasberry on 2016-09-29
I was doing some research on the concept of LGBT bookstores, and I started thinking about how LGBT bookstores provided information which was not otherwise available. Nowadays it is harder to identify examples of physical locations which share information of a sort which absolutely cannot be found outside of those locations. I feel like there […]
Posted in gay stuff, religion, Texas | Tagged book, sex
By bluerasberry on 2016-09-07
I moved to New York from Seattle in April 2012. NYC has a reputation as a city which has everything, but after having visited 100 coffeehouses here over the past few years I am sure that Seattle has the better coffee culture. I miss it. I just visited Seattle again a bit over a week […]
Posted in Seattle, service industry | Tagged coffee, culture
By bluerasberry on 2016-08-13
I attended the 2016 Hackers on Planet Earth conference, which was in late July 2016. At the beginning of August, it was my turn to give a speech at my Toastmasters club, and I choose to share a story that I learned at the conference. Toastmasters is a nonprofit organization which helps to organize local, […]
Posted in computer, New York City | Tagged Hackers on Planet Earth, privacy, Toastmasters, Tor