Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Yep, it’s not just you: Google Calendar appears to be down and has been since 9:47AM ET, according to Google’s App Status Dashboard. Try going to Google Calendar now and you’ll likely be greeted with a blank page, or a server error page that tells you in a handful of languages that your meetings today…
In a Facebook post, Scott Kleinberg said he had to quit working for Mayor Bill de Blasio “for the sake of my health and my sanity.”View Full Caption Getty/Kena Betancur CIVIC CENTER — Mayor Bill de Blasio’s new social media director has quit — saying in a scathing Facebook post that he had to do…
Facebook planted a flag Wednesday, declaring that the site will give greater weight to material posted by your friends and deemphasize content published by businesses and media outlets. The social network approached the issue with a rare bit of candor, stating that the change to its News Feed will likely hurt traffic to external websites….
There’s no real way to really discuss this without spoilers, so let me put it this way: If you had any lingering doubts about that scene, you may put now them away. The scene, of course, was atop the Tower of Joy, as young Ned Stark arrived to rescue his sister Lyanna, only to find…
This is Cara Nicole Trujillo. For the past few years, she’s been active on the Arizona cosplay scene. Now, she’s also active on the political one. Phoenix New Times report that Trujillo is officially running for the Arizona Legislature as a Green Party candidate, appearing on this November’s ballot. On her official site, Trujillo mentions…
After leaking once in September, then again in February, then in March, it appears the BioShock collection is ready to leak for real this time. While previous leaks came mostly from trademarks and retailers, today’s news actually came from 2K’s website, where the name appeared for a few minutes this afternoon before it was removed:…
Update (7:40 p.m.): Twitter has reactivated our @SCOTUSblog account and restored the deleted tweets. Today we had our annual running of the trolls — wherein we respond to people who direct mostly hateful and sometimes cute things to our @SCOTUSblog account, thinking it is the official Twitter account of the Supreme Court. We’ve done this…
Facebook announced on Wednesday it’s changing its News Feed to prioritize friends and family over news organizations, a shift that will cause referral traffic to publishers to decrease. The change was announced in a blog post addressed to Facebook users Wednesday that said users are “worried about missing important updates from the friends they care…
Height – 1536 | Width – 2048 Photo: Bloomberg Donald Trump is the only billionaire in the city to get a middle-class tax break. Earlier this year, Crain’s reported that Donald Trump received a property-tax break for middle-class New Yorkers. That revelation raised questions about just how wealthy the presumptive GOP presidential nominee really…
As if to underscore the point, the company is making a tweak to its News Feed ranking system to increase the prominence of content from your friends and family over posts by news companies and other organizations. It is also warning news companies that their traffic might decline as a result of the change. These…