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Thursday, July 03, 2025

3: Zohran Mamdani

How Extremely Online Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani Learned to Embrace the Cringe The young democratic socialist has been building buzz and raising money from New Yorkers online, but it remains to be seen how that will translate into votes IRL. ........ and Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani, who donned a $30 business suit he had bought the day before from one of his constituents’s thrift stores on Steinway Street in Astoria, Queens. .......... “I’m freezing … your rent as the next mayor of New York City,” Mamdani said to the camera. “Let’s plunge into the details,” he continued, before jumping into the 40-degree water and emerging soaking wet to talk about his affordable housing proposal......... The video went on to garner more than 800,000 views across social media platforms. ......... “I think that you’ll find more people heard about my policy on freezing the rent by me jumping into the water than me being at any number of political forums where I’ve said the same thing,” Mamdani told THE CITY in a phone conversation about his social media strategy on Wednesday. .......... Two days later, his campaign released a sincere video of him talking with some of the New Yorkers who gave to his campaign. That clip quickly racked up more than half a million views on Twitter. ........ Part of the reason Mamdani’s been able to appear so comfortable in front of the camera, he said, came from his experience of being a self-described C-list rapper — including attempts to sell CDs on public buses in visits to Kampala, Uganda. ........ (He was born in the African nation to award-winning indie filmmaker Mira Nair and noted scholar of postcolonialism Mahmood Mamdani before they moved to New York City when he was a child. Despite her filmmaking expertise, Nair hasn’t offered her son tips for his campaign videos, he said.) ........ Those moments of “humiliation,” he added, were part of what prepared him for the harsh truths of the campaign trial, especially the early morning attempts on subway platforms to stop people for petition signatures when they’d rather not speak to anyone. ........... “You have to throw yourself out there, you have to put yourself out there, you have to also just crave rejection like water on your back.” ........

Mamdani, for his part, likened campaign content creation to door-knocking.

........ “With low turnout events, any bit of turnout matters a lot,” Sanderson said — especially when New York City’s last two mayoral contests were effectively decided in Democratic primaries where the winner was the first choice of not even 300,000 voters. ........... “I began this race with most New Yorkers not knowing who I am, but if I want to change that reality I have to be everywhere all at once,” he said. “I have sought to fulfill that commitment by physically going to three to four boroughs in a single day and also by ensuring that when New Yorkers open their phone and they’re scrolling through Instagram or Twitter or TikTok, they may also see a video from this campaign.” ....... Mamdani’s isn’t just working with content creators. He’s also becoming one of them. ......... organizing and hunger-striking with taxi workers drowning in debt back in 2021.

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Thursday, June 26, 2025

26: Mamdani

Trump Gets 'Golden Share' In $14 Billion US Steel Deal
Trump's approval rating drops again in Texas, new poll finds
Report: US economy shrinks 0.5% amid Trump's tariffs
'50,000 Russian troops pinned down' — Ukraine halts advance in Sumy Oblast, summer offensive 'faltering,' Syrskyi says

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Tuesday, January 14, 2020

AVC 3.0 (Newsworthy)



AVC 3.0







Netizen Has Arrived: A Link From AVC











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Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Discovering LinkedIn In 2019

I discovered Twitter in 2009, and JP Rangaswami was a big reason why. His blog Confused Of Calcutta that a friend pointed out to had many posts where he shared his enthusiasm for Twitter. I got infected. Within a year I became a top followed in NYC on Twitter. And I was no Ashton Kutcher. I worked hard at it.

It is not like I had not heard of Twitter. I had. But at first, I thought it was ridiculous. (I was also in attendance at the NY Tech MeetUp where FourSquare first presented, and I was unimpressed with what the two Founders called "check-in") I had been an avid blogger for years. And I thought Twitter was for people who can compose full sentences, but full paragraphs are beyond their reach. I was not going to stoop down.

LinkedIn I signed up for not long after it was launched. I have been a keen reader of tech news since the late 1990s, and so I seldom missed developments. But until this year, I never really used LinkedIn. I updated my profile and kept it current, but that was just because.

This year LinkedIn has become my favorite social network. I have become an avid user. I have been using it for hours a day. It keeps running in the background. It has become more like an Operating System.

When I was living in the city (now I live 90 minutes out, more depending on your mode of transportation) I went to numerous tech events. And often you exchanged business cards. The idea would be to try and connect with those people online.

Now I realize I was doing it in reverse and wasting a lot of precious time. You meet people online. You try to connect with them. They might, they might not reciprocate. Which begs the question, did you have a good enough reason to connect, did you write a relevant enough first email?

After you connect, you can have so much communication online. LinkedIn messaging might not be the best messaging out there, but it works fine. And if you connect with someone enough, you might even want to meet. But that is a rather high threshold. What will you talk in person that you can not over email and voice chat? Especially when a meeting is so hard to arrange. For both parties.

I continue to use Twitter and Facebook, pretty much daily. And although I don't blog as regularly as I used to, my blogs are still active. Now I also blog on LinkedIn itself. But that is deliberately few and far between. If people decide to read my articles, let them be few enough that they might actually read them. That is what I have thought.

The LinkedIn profile is an excellent format. If you have only a few minutes to get to know me, reading my LinkedIn profile might be how you ought to spend your time. The kind of work people have done over the years gives you a pretty good picture of who someone is as a person. Even if your interest in them might not be work-related.

And so I have been networking on LinkedIn like crazy. I don't miss the city. I quite like the clean air around where I live. And I don't much miss the networking tech events either. LinkedIn is far superior an experience.

It feels like for the first time I am building a company (two, actually) in earnest. And LinkedIn is the Operating System I am happily using.

LinkedIn trending topics has also become my favorite place online to go for news. Although I go many places on a daily basis.

And to say I have actually seen Reid Hoffman in person. Mike Bloomberg threw a party. I don't know how I got invited. But that is where I got to meet and know Arianna Huffington also. Hoffman was the featured speaker.





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