Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
paging_filter The New York Times is offering buyouts to employees in its video department while also recruiting new video talent. Effective Tuesday, all members of the video staff will be eligible to apply for a buyout, and the Times will consider the offers on a case by case basis. Some layoffs could be possible, executive…
The company that owns the rights to make Polaroid devices sued GoPro on Tuesday, alleging that the action camera maker’s new cube cameras infringe on its patents. C&A Marketing Inc., filed its lawsuit against GoPro in a U.S. District Court in Newark and said that the San Mateo, Calif.-based camera company’s new Hero4 Session Camera…
Short-term rentals are not a significant factor in SF’s housing shortage. So why are people going crazy about this one company? Disclaimer: If you want to contact the author of this piece and accuse me of something, you can tweet at me. I also wrote a convenient FAQ for people who wanna call me “astroturf.” *** Last year,…
FOR all the frequent travellers out there just aching for airlines to make the flying experience slightly less unpleasant, there’s one fundamental obstacle: you. The airline industry recently undertook a wide-ranging study of passenger satisfaction, surveying 60,000 passengers on 30 airlines in 39 hub airports around the world, and examining 75 factors that contribute to…
I was in an uncomfortable chair sitting through another boring quarterly meeting led by our publisher and his PowerPoint deck. Some astute member of the newsroom had coined the nickname “Mojo” for him, partly as a play on his name, but more as a comment on his dreary lack of charisma. It was all EBITAs…
ESPN on Friday announced that it is shutting down Grantland, the sports and culture website started by Bill Simmons in 2011. “Effective immediately, we are suspending the publication of Grantland,” the company said in a statement Friday at the same time staffers were informed of the news. Other writers said they had learned the news…
Effective immediately we are suspending the publication of Grantland. After careful consideration, we have decided to direct our time and energy going forward to projects that we believe will have a broader and more significant impact across our enterprise. Grantland distinguished itself with quality writing, smart ideas, original thinking and fun. We are grateful to those who made…
This article originally appeared on AlterNet. Mariana Mazzucato is a professor in the Economics of Innovation program at the Science Policy Research Unit of the University of Sussex. Her widely acclaimed book, The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths, reveals the critical role that we, the taxpayers, play in the creation of the most…
CREDIT: AP Photo/Brian Bohannon YUM Brands CEO David Novak, who has the biggest retirement nest egg The pay gap between what CEOs make and what they pay their workers is pretty well known. A new report released on Wednesday illuminates a different gap: that between what CEOs have stashed away for retirement and what…
A very nice editor at Huffington Post contacted me yesterday, and asked me if I would be willing to grant permission for the site to republish my post about the seven things I did to reboot my life. Huffington Post has a lot of views, and reaches a pretty big audience, and that post is…