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Minutes Before Six
''Minutes Before Six'' (est. 2007) is an American blog that publishes articles, poetry and art from inmates held in prison in the United States. The website was founded by former Texas death row inmate Thomas Bartlett Whitaker with the help of volunteers in the free world. The name of the website refers to the hour (6 PM Central Time) at which (barring any pending appeals not decided) executions start to take place in Texas. The website provides a channel for prisoners (without access to the internet) to express themselves to the outside world. Prisoners send their contribution by postal mail to the Editor, Dina Milito. Volunteers then digitize them and post them online. Minutes Before Six is a nonprofit organization (EIN #82- 3422504). Milito, a victim of violent assault seeking to understand violence, wrote to Whitaker and other condemned inmates and is an opponent of capital punishment. Eventually the blog expanded to include other writers from prisons throughout the USA.Bel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blog
A blog (a truncation of "weblog") is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts). Posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological order so that the most recent post appears first, at the top of the web page. Until 2009, blogs were usually the work of a single individual, occasionally of a small group, and often covered a single subject or topic. In the 2010s, "multi-author blogs" (MABs) emerged, featuring the writing of multiple authors and sometimes professionally edited. MABs from newspapers, other media outlets, universities, think tanks, advocacy groups, and similar institutions account for an increasing quantity of blog traffic. The rise of Twitter and other "microblogging" systems helps integrate MABs and single-author blogs into the news media. ''Blog'' can also be used as a verb, meaning ''to maintain or add content to a blog''. The emergence and growth of blogs i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
