Arianna Huffington and Craig Newmark Speak in OneVoice
Arianna Huffington and Craig Newmark spoke powerfully at an event that Leah Jones from Edelman helped organize on behalf of the OneVoice Movement, hosted by the guys at Think Tank 3.
Craig always cracks me up with his signature wit. He is funny, self-efacing, down to earth and extremely bright. He provided an interesting analogy to how Craigslist thrives because the overwhelming amount of people are decent human beings, and there are far and few bad apples, which the system monitors to do away with.
Craig also quoted his favorite newscaster, Jon Stewart from the Daily Show on Comedy Central, that the reason we hear so much from violent extremists who are so active is "because moderates have shit to do in real life."
Arianna’s Huffington Post is an example of how new media can play a positive role by highlighting the voices of moderation. She explained how OneVoice has to stay on course no matter what challenges or setbacks or skepticism because it has to eventually achieve the critical mass to get to the tipping point that will get moderates to seize back the agenda. We just have no other option.
Bloggers from Arabisto.com to Jewtopia were present, all in all about 30+ people…
“Bloggers from Arabisto to Jewtopia…”? I don’t think there is a Jewtopia blog. But I do know that bloggers from Jewschool and Jewlicious were present (and I may even be one of them). I guess we really all do look alike…
[…] founder Daniel Lubetzky writes about it here, and how bloggers from Arabisto to “Jewtopia” were there. (I believe he means […]