Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Meeting up at a coffee shop is a cornerstone of modern American life. Business meetings, book clubs, and first dates all pair well with a coffee. But some fast-growing Taiwanese chains and American entrepreneurs are hoping you’ll switch allegiances to a younger rival: bubble tea. Invented in Taiwan in the 1980s, the hugely popular drink…
Photo Condominiums at the Time Warner Center were found to have a number of hidden owners over a decade who had been the subjects of government investigations. Credit Edward Caruso for The New York Times Concerned about illicit money flowing into luxury real estate, the Treasury Department said Wednesday that it would begin identifying and…
Photo Migrants in Padborg, Denmark, walking to police vans last week after officers checked the identity papers of people on a train arriving from Germany. Credit Sean Gallup/Getty Images LONDON — Denmark, which once prided itself on its openness to foreigners, has sent another message to migrants in recent months: Think twice before coming. It…
PressForward 3.8 Written by Amanda Regan, January 13th, 2016 Last week the PressForward team released PressForward 3.8. Our latest release includes numerous bug fixes and enhances the functionality of the Nominate This bookmarklet, user permissions, and OPML functionality. Notably, the functionality of the Send to Draft button, located in All Content, has been restored. Also included in our…
Pop artist Sam Smith just won a Golden Globe for James Bond theme song “The Writing’s On The Wall.” As we discovered late last year, however, he wasn’t the only candidate considered to pen the tune. Radiohead surprised us all by releasing their own version, titled “Spectre,” igniting hopes and dreams that a new album is…
A recent report finds that 60 percent of women working in the tech industry in Silicon Valley have experienced sexual harassment. A staggering 90 percent of the women interviewed in the study, which was titled Elephant in the Valley, reportedly “witnessed sexist behavior at company offsites and/or industry conferences.” In other cases, the sexism women…
Predictions about financial markets are, almost without exception, notoriously wrong and worthless. With that caveat: we have our first respectable major DOOM prediction of 2016! Are there good reasons to be panicky about global financial markets right now? Absolutely! Oil prices are cratering to unbelievable lows, China’s growth that’s been propelling the whole world is…
When the chips are down, and the transistors are shrinking, and the deadline hour is nigh, Thomas Friedman—a professional—can whip up a newspaper column faster than you can say “It is a shame that you are not writing for Highlights for Kids, sir.” Today, in the most valuable op-ed space in all of journalism, Thomas…
Today in Tedium: One of the last acts of David Bowie, supreme rock star of the past 50 years who died Monday morning, was the release of his album, Blackstar. One of the ways Bowie promoted the closing chapter of his work was by doing something that he hadn’t done much of over the years: he gave the…
Today we are launching a national, coordinated campaign to win fair contracts with wage increases for the nearly 1,000 Guild-represented employees of Digital First Media. The campaign will build on the strength of our 13 bargaining units at DFM publications and online news sites across the United States, united by a central theme: News Matters….