Darfur – Tracy McGrady Visit with John Prendergast

Tracy McGrady, a Houston basketball player, visited Darfur. Details from the Chronicle (go THERE and COMMENT!)

Sept. 30, 2007,  8:15AM

McGrady on Africa: ‘I knew I had to go’

After a journey to refugee camps in Chad, NBA All-Star vows to spread the word about atrocities in Darfur

By JONATHAN FEIGEN
Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle

There was so much Tracy McGrady did not know. Not then, not in the beginning.

The Houston Rockets star had seen the news reports about the
atrocities in the Darfur region of western Sudan, where a genocide has
left hundreds of thousands of people dead and millions more homeless
and living in bleak desert camps.

He had begun to educate himself with conversations with experts. But
he did not really understand what genocide means, how horrific the
tragedy was in Africa’s largest nation. (more)

Read the full article on Tracy McGrady’s visit to the Darfur Refugee camps in Chad.

 

 
 

tipdish is born – startup weekend Houston

We just finished the Tendenci User Conference so I am *not* at Startup Weekend Houston. But I have been following along this afternoon through twitter and ustream. Saw this link sent out by Erica:

tipDish is Born! – Tippers & Dishers

Think, the tipping point and “dishing” the news. So, “bloggers,
podcasters, newspapers, radio people…anybody who gets information out
is a Disher. And the Tipper is anybody who has information they want to
get out, like a press release, news item, whatever.

Erica by the way has restarted her reinventing erica 90 day project and I hear something about live streaming plastic surgery!? We love her, but find her a bit odd at times. Really? ustream live plastic surgery?

Quote of the Day – Lightning

"I hope they never find out that lightning has a lot of vitamins in it, because do you hide from it or not?"

- ‘Deeper Thoughts’ – by Jack Handy

Shout out to Chron.com for Progressive Blog Link Outs!

A definite shout out to the link to this blog from chron.com this morning in the news and opinions section. Thanks! And Love the drop down of all blogs they have linked to. The more love you give the more love you get in the gift economy. So thanks again to the best damn newspaper in Texas!

Schipul Class of ’07

The journey continues. What a week. Tomorrow is our first "Tendenci Bootcamp" and Friday is the first Tendenci User Conference.

More importantly Friday night is the 10 year anniversary party for the team.

Two eventful days coming up for this crew. Good luck people!