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Ryan J. Davis is the 30 year-old Executive Director of Social Innovation at Blue State Digital. He's also the co-founder of The Four 2012.

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.

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It’s really cool how many start-ups are being founded in New York City. Silicon Alley forever.

When there is no political will for real action, you resort to theatrics that make everyone feel better but accomplish nothing. Once everyone feels better, everybody goes home and nothing is done. So I say, stop trying to make people feel better. Keep them angry and wanting to do something.

Just started working at Vocativ on Monday as their Vice President of Community. Check out this sizzle reel on some of the stories we’ve been working on. We fully launch in the fall.

vocativ:

What is Vocativ?

We’re hard at work gearing up for our launch — here’s a taste. If you’re into it, share it.

Instead of petitioning Abercrombie & Fitch to open their lame, tacky brand to all sizes, why don’t we all never shop there again?

Here’s a current example of the challenge we face - At the height of its power, the photography company Kodak employed more than 140,000 people and was worth $28 billion. They even invented the first digital camera. But today Kodak is bankrupt, and the new face of digital photography has become Instagram. When Instagram was sold to Facebook for a billion dollars in 2012, it employed only 13 people. Where did all those jobs disappear? And what happened to the wealth that all those middle-class jobs created?

Jaron Lanier

Hey! Come out and meet Cory Booker at his NYC LGBT fundraiser on Tuesday, May 21st. Tickets here.

The eurozone countries, the United Kingdom, and the Baltic states have volunteered as subjects in a grand experiment that aims to find out if it is possible for an economically stagnant country to cut its way to prosperity… The results of the experiment are now in, and they are equally consistent: austerity doesn’t work. Most of the economies on the periphery of the eurozone have been in free fall since 2009, and in the fourth quarter of 2012, the eurozone as a whole contracted for the first time ever.

Foreign Affairs

Sunday Sermon: Fareed’s take on Boston and what Europe can teach us about engaging Islam.

Excited to announce that in May I’m joining Vocativ as their Vice President of Community! Great to be part of a New York City start up working to elevate digital news.

Check it out.