Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
San Francisco needs to lower the cost of housing. That’s the CEO of Yelp talking. Jeremy Stoppelman made those comments via Twitter in responding to a former employee’s open letter complaining about the company’s low wages and the struggle to get by in San Francisco. The letter, written by Talia Jane, detailed her experiences working…
By Charles G. Koch February 18 at 5:44 PM Charles G. Koch is chairman and chief executive of Koch Industries. As he campaigns for the Democratic nomination for president, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) often sounds like he’s running as much against me as he is the other candidates. I have never met the senator,…
(Amy King/The Washington Post; iStock) Three years ago, Jay Porter, a former restaurant owner who abolished tipping at his restaurant, made a powerful case against the practice, an industry standard in the United States. Everything at his establishment, he wrote in a 2013 Op-Ed for Slate, improved after he enforced a mandatory 18 percent service charge—the…
I’m now keeping a collection of terrible awful no-good ad-tech code. This isn’t just code that tracks you, I mean code that is actually written terribly and breaks sites all around the web. All of this is simply obtained by clicking on the link in the console to the file that contains the terrible ad…
The pressure is on digital publishers to show they have massive reach and a young readership. That means reporting a big comScore audience number with plenty of those millennials who brands want so badly to engage with. The reason is simple: Many media plans have an arbitrary cutoff point for participating publishers. So publishers need to show…
Only a competing Republican debate could have messed this up for CBS — so luckily, it was the network who broadcast this week’s. The network swept the top 10 shows in the ratings, with the exception of The Walking Dead on AMC, which finished third with 13.7M viewers. But the other nine of the top…
Apple CEO Tim Cook’s refusal to help the FBI access an encrypted phone is an important and unprecedented event in the long, strained relationship between Silicon Valley and the government. But there is one particular line, near the end of his letter, that sticks out: “We are challenging the FBI’s demands with the deepest respect…
The launch of Google’s AMP project looms this month, and not everyone is excited. The project’s site describes Accelerated Mobile Pages as “an initiative to improve the mobile web and enhance the distribution ecosystem” by providing “web pages that are optimised to load instantly on users’ mobile devices” and “designed to support smart caching, predictable…
According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has designated Wednesday as the day of the week to make the massive employee cuts the company announced on its earnings call weeks ago. But, instead of just felling the ax at once on 15 percent of staff, she has dragged the pain out…
When Pizza reached 100,000 followers on Tumblr, she posted a picture of a pizza box, takeout chicken wings, and an orange soda spread out on her bed: “pizza and chicken wings 2 celebrate.” One fan replied, “CONGRATULATIONS GIRL! YOU DESERVE IT!” Another: “MOTHER OF GOD 100K?!?!” An anonymous user was unimpressed: “you only have 100k…