By bluerasberry on 2015-07-21
On Monday 20 July I went to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Leading up to this visit I became aware of my ignorance as to the importance of this place. I knew it was important, but I failed to recognize that it was considered to be the holiest place in the Catholic tradition […]
Posted in Mexico City, religion | Tagged Catholicism, war
By bluerasberry on 2015-07-13
Puerta Vallarta is a resort town in Mexico. I am in Mexico for the 2015 Wikimania conference. Fabian is joining me for the travel. We left early for tourism and From Friday 10 July – Tuesday 14 we are in Puerta Vallarta. I knew some about the place before arriving but there was not much […]
Posted in gay stuff, Puerta Vallarta, service industry, tour | Tagged botanical garden, expatriate
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 2015-06-28
I attended Aspen Ideas Festival Spotlight Health from Thursday 25 June – Sunday 28 June. It was educational, pleasant, and insightful for me. The most striking characteristic of this conference to me was the frequent talk of entrepreneurship and market forces. In most of the conferences which I attend there is a lot of community […]
Posted in Colorado, Consumer Reports, education, health, presentation | Tagged conference, journalism
By bluerasberry on 2015-06-28
The “Aspen Ideas Festival Spotlight Health” conference is over. It is late Sunday afternoon and I am having tea at a restaurant listening into the conversation at a table nearby. A table of four people are talking about how their employees fake job injuries so that they can get payments from employers while enjoying time […]
Posted in encounter | Tagged class struggle, conference
By bluerasberry on 2015-06-24
Right now I am on a plane from New York to Colorado going to the Aspen Ideas Festival Spotlight Health, which is a medical spin off of the Aspen Institute conference. A team of us from Consumer Reports are coordinated to present and promote some Consumer Reports projects, including education about unnecessary health care and […]
Posted in Colorado, health | Tagged Aspen Institute, Consumer Reports, medicine
By bluerasberry on 2015-06-22
On June 20 I went to a conference in New York called The Seed. It is organized by a consortium of activists and nonprofit organizations who promote the vegan lifestyle, and this annual conference is a special event to complement a monthly vegan market and meetup which they group also hosts. At their events they […]
Posted in animal, health, New York City, non-profit | Tagged conference, food, PETA
By bluerasberry on 2015-06-12
I talked with Alex Stinson (user:Sadads on Wikipedia) today about libraries and archives. The context was that Consumer Reports has a light relationship with Kansas State University because their library system holds some archives relating to the Consumer Movement, including Colston Warne‘s papers. I am not going to give context to our conversation, but I […]
Posted in non-profit, Open access, Wikipedia | Tagged library
By bluerasberry on 2015-06-05
As I described in another post this month, the Wikipedia article on Jashodaben has been deleted four times already. In another post from September 2014, I discussed some reasons why I support Jashodaben’s demands for recognition as the Spouse of the Prime Minister of India. There is pressure on the Indian media to avoid discussing […]
Posted in India, rights | Tagged Jashodaben, Narendra Modi, women's rights
By bluerasberry on 2015-06-05
When a topic is not well covered on Wikipedia, that is often an indication that a topic is not accessible or well covered in available sources on the Internet. When I was developing a draft for a Wikipedia article on Jashodaben I searched for all the information I could find. In November I set a […]
Posted in art, India, Wikipedia | Tagged Jashodaben, Narendra Modi
