Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Apparently, once you bleed purple, you never stop. At least that is the case in the sale of Yahoo, which is now in its second phase of bids from prospective buyers that include strategics like Verizon, as well as private equity firms like TPG, Sycamore Partners and the pairing of Vista Equity Partners and Bain…
By Eliza Gray/Detmold More than 70 years later, the prosecution of a 94-year-old former SS guard renews questions about how to assign blame for the Holocaust On a cold, gray morning in February, Irene Weiss was waiting patiently in the courtroom in Detmold, a small city in northern Germany. She had come a long way…
One of the most effective ways to get people to click and read stories is also the simplest: personalize content for them based on what they’re already reading. To promote some of its biggest stories, The Washington Post has experimented with “pop-up” newsletters. Sent to the Post’s existing email subscribers (who don’t opt in), the…
It is one of the last taboos – a woman who dares to say she does not want children. So when writer Holly Brockwell, then aged 26, asked doctors to sterilise her, she unleashed a storm. First, NHS staff said she was too young. Then the personal abuse rained down, much of it vile. It…
A FRIEND of mine complains about how many of the men she meets on Tinder use corporate language to chat her up. First, they “reach out.” Then, after spending the night together, they “follow up.” This kind of flirting is banal, but it makes sense. We constantly use economic metaphors to describe romantic and sexual…
Google wants more professional women… depicted as emoji. The tech giant issued a proposal at the Unicode Consortium this week to create a new set of emoji that would represent women in a variety of job roles, ranging from doctor to mechanic to chef. Its goal is to see the emoji implemented by the end…
Young creatives are using social media to shape the culture we consume. But what happens when they don’t own their work? By DOREEN ST. FELIX Kayla Newman started her Vine account to record herself commenting on the minutia and mundanity of high school life. This was nearly two years ago, when she was 16. For…
Kolé Life Foods doesn’t really stand out at first glance. These days, lots of companies are trying to ride the wave of popular interest in neuro-everything, and Kolé, a Baltimore-based supplement manufacturer, is no exception. The company’s four “tonics” offer a variety of benefits, its website claims: one “is designed to support alertness, focus, healthy…
render left third party share bar style=”background: url(../images/patterns/paper-noise.png) top left white;” story headline PPress Herald gets push-back from North Woods story. Portland, ME (NEWS CENTER) — The Maine Warden Service today released a seven page document disclaiming an investigative report by the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram. The Service defended the actions of an undercover…
This tweet from Doctor Vox wonderfully underscores a point I’ve been making for years now: liberal discourse politics ensures a permanent erasure of the lower classes. This is so for two reasons: Lower class people, almost by definition, cannot engage in The Discourse. They do not have the education, credentials, or jobs necessary to do…