@RyanNewYork
He sits on the Broad of Directors of The Ali Forney Center, where he is the founding producer of their annual Broadway Beauty Pageant fundraiser. He's also on the Board of Directors of The Deconstructive Theatre Project and the Board of Advisers of the startup TV Dinner.
He's also a director/producer, who lives in Brooklyn, NY and created the musical White Noise. Ryan writes about politics for The Huffington Post & The Hill. He has been a guest editor for Queerty and is the host of the podcast Gay History: Uncut.
Here Ryan blogs about politics, film, TV, history, religion, science, books, theater, digital media, LGBT issues, Bushwick & Williamsburg, New York City, and anything else he's interested in at the moment. Oh, and he'll probably talk a lot about himself.
This is a personal blog. Any opinions expressed here and on my Twitter represent my own and not those of my employer or clients.
Looking forward to speaking for Blue State Digital at ArtezInterAction in Toronto again this year, on marketing to Millennials.
Details on my keynote below. Still plenty of time to register.
Engaging Digital Natives
Ryan Davis, Executive Director of Social Innovation, Blue State DigitalThis is the first generation of digital natives, who engage with technology in a more natural and instinctive way than any prior generation. How do we connect with the over-connected? Ryan will talk about strategies, tactics, and content that Blue State Digital has learned truly target this new demographic, with client examples from The Born This Way Foundation to The NAACP and cultural movements like #Kony2012 and Occupy Wall Street.
Really excited to speak for Blue State Digital at the eCampaigning Forum Europe, held in Austria! You know you wanna come see me.
I’m in Maryland for the weekend and am going through lots of boxes full of stuff that I owned as a kid. Last night, I came across an envelope labeled ‘Internet,’ which contained my 1995 invitation to use Sailor, “Maryland’s Online Public Information Network…. provides free access to the Information Superhighway.”
Especially love the prescient tip - don’t believe everything you read on the Internet. Truer today than in 1995.
Really terrific feature from Wired on Anonymous, from Occupy Wall Street to The Arab Spring, and the rise of the do-ocracy.
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The Infiltration of Anonymous
Writing for Wired Magazine, Quinn Norton brings us the story of how Anonymous was born, developed into a hacking force, and was subsequently infiltrated by the FBI:
Sabu’s arrest cut to the heart of what Anonymous claimed to be, of how it claimed to organize itself. Or, more accurately: its claim that it did not organize itself, that it had no leaders and yet boasted participants so innumerable (“We are Legion,” as one of its popular slogans blares) that no ten or hundred or thousand arrests could ever stop it. But in Sabu the FBI had nabbed an anon who was not easy to replace. No one could deny he had served as a crucial force in many of 2011′s most spectacular hacking campaigns. Presumably the anons arrested on the evidence he helped gather were talented hackers, too. For years, when anyone tried to claim they had uncovered the leader, or leaders, of Anonymous, the group’s members would belittle them online and then sometimes hack them for good measure. Now, with these arrests, Anonymous’ whole self-conception was being put to the test.
The possibility that Anonymous might be telling the truth—that it couldn’t be shut down by jailing or flipping or bribing key participants—was why it became such a terrifying force to powerful institutions worldwide, from governments to corporations to nonprofits. Its wild string of brilliant hacks and protests seemed impossible in the absence of some kind of defined organization. To hear the group and its defenders talk, the leaderless nature of Anonymous makes it a mystical, almost supernatural force, impossible not just to stop but to even comprehend. Anons were, they liked to claim, united as one and divided by zero—undefined and indefinable.
My latest post on the Blue State Digital blog.
Thanks to Matt Sigl for his thoughts & help on this one.
Looking forward to co-presenting a Blue State Digital webinar today on the Facebook Timeline. It’s free, so if you run Facebook for a brand or organization, jump on this afternoon at 3PM ET to hear Evan Moody and I on some of the changes.
Plus, we’re taking questions on Twitter with the hashtag #BSDWebinar.
When dating sites get too niche.
(via liquidzoot)
I’m calling my representatives, Chuck Schumer, Nydia Velazquez, and Kirsten Gillibrand, and asking them to oppose SOPA / PIPA. You should too.
I get asked often by clients to explain the difference in tone between the different social networks. The above image is a bawdier version of my typical answer.
We should probably not break the Internet, since it’s one of the only things that occasionally works.
