Gena Haskett

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  1. Why Siri Can’t Answer Every Question

    12/7/11 1:09pm by Gena Haskett
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    iPhone

    The iPhone application known as Siri is not good at providing female sexual and reproductive health information. As discovered by Jill Filipovic and Amanda Marcotte and illustrated at AmandiTalks you can get a good understanding of the problem.  Read more >

  2. Re-thinking the "Social Media Expert" Career

    11/17/11 3:34pm by Gena Haskett
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    Social Media Hype

    I paid cash money to attend a local social media event recently. It was about 12:20 on Friday afternoon. All I had to show for my investment was a bag of peanuts and a non-functional rubber brain. It was raining. I was miserable. I could hear a man at another table telling a group of women “Oh yeah, I work with mommy bloggers all the time. We have this money making affiliate system that allows you to take care of your families…” I smell hokum. This was not a good sign.  Read more >

  3. Readers Versus E-book Spammers

    8/22/11 11:00am by Gena Haskett
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    ebook spam

    Recently Amazon.com announced that it was taking steps to remove the more dodgy spam e-book content that can be found in the Kindle electronic bookstore.  I have my doubts so I performed a test.  Read more >

  4. 5 Reasons to Switch to A Credit Union

    7/14/11 9:13am by Gena Haskett
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    Credit Union Sign

    The days of free checking, unlimited ATM use and no annual fee bank credit cards are on the way out.  It does not matter if you are a good customer or you're a hope-and-pray depositor (You hope and pray you can get to the bank before the payment is processed).  Read more >

  5. Health Treatments or Quackery?

    7/7/11 7:23pm by Gena Haskett
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    Old Medicine

    In-between the space of logic, fear and belief is magical thinking. I will do just about anything to avoid a mammogram. I read the news story about Dr. Joseph Mercola's claims that thermography can be a replacement for mammograms -- that got my attention.  Read more >

  6. School Librarians Get the Third Degree

    6/15/11 9:00am by Gena Haskett
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    School librarian LAUSD

    The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is having serious budget problems. There is a section on the district web site that shows a chart of how they spend the money. One of the LAUSD solutions is the closing of elementary and middle school libraries.  Read more >

  7. A Pastor’s Tweet: The Truth or Libel?

    3/21/11 9:13am by Gena Haskett
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    Stained Glass in a Church

    Getting fired because of a 140 character tweet is bad. What can be worse is being held financially responsible for your words in blogs, web sites and social media communications. The following is an example of evolving news story. Information and details may change, but this is what is known at this time. Pastor Shaun King has made powerful allegations concerning Bishop Jonathan Alvarado. Pastor King did not make the allegations at his church in Georgia; he used Twitter.  Read more >

  8. In Search of African American Historical Narratives

    2/25/11 1:00pm by Gena Haskett
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    Call to Duty video screen shot

    I know that my great-grandmother was ten years-old when Abraham Lincoln ended legalized slavery. What I don’t know is what she experienced and witnessed between 1875 and her passing in the 1960s. I can read about Jim Crow laws and segregation. I have experience the echoes of it. The ancestors lived in maelstrom of separate and unequal. History doesn’t stop at achievements, political whims or attempts at erasure of difficult topics.  Read more >

  9. The Noose That Binds Us

    2/15/11 8:13am by Gena Haskett
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    Confederate flag toolbox

    A noose is a tool of murder. The noose has a specifically nasty American heritage that refuses to die. It is a stealth weapon of choice by cowards. This is not a simple story of a singular noose but of an alleged company structure that gave permission to maintain separate and unequal policies in its relationships to their employees.  Read more >

  10. Do We Still Need PBS?

    1/21/11 11:00am by Gena Haskett
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    PBS icon

    In fact, New Hampshire and Virginia and other states are in the process of dismantling their public television systems. Idaho is in the discussion process with the governor actively wanting to shut it down. On the federal level are two proposed bills to eliminate funding for National Public Radio and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. It comes down to money, politics and resources.  Read more >

Gena - Out On The Stoop

Full Name
Gena - Out On The Stoop
Member Since
March 2006
About Me: 

I am a blogger, vlogger, writer and life long learner. I  finds no greater pleasure than to sniff library dust on a regular basis. And make videos when I can crowbar the time. The middle passage is a time of change and evolution. Re-examining what my mission in life look like this week.

One of purposes is to documenting a disappearing world as a new one emerges. Wandering on this big blue marble keep me damn near exhausted. But it is sooo much fun!

My blog - http://outonthestoop.blogspot.com and my exploration into Web Video Create Video Notebook

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  • Ding-Dong School - Occasional Drop-In Student
  • Spiritual Special Ed - As Needed

 

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