Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Ev Williams, the co-founder of Twitter, spent five years building Medium into one of the slickest publishing platforms on the web. Yet he found himself in traditional-publishing purgatory on Wednesday, cutting 50 employees and searching for a new business model. There could be no better proof that delivery methods matter little and content is king….
Your Post Has Been Launched! Fabulous! Don’t forget to share with your friends on Twitter and Facebook. The troubled blood testing company Theranos has announced another 155 layoffs, just months after cutting 340 staff in October. In total the company, which was once one of the country’s most valuable tech startups, has cut about 70%…
The layoffs came a week after the presidential election. Fusion staffers received a “cryptic” calendar invite for a 10 a.m. meeting the following morning. Minutes before they were set to meet, a companywide e-mail from chief executive officer Isaac Lee went out describing various reorganizations at Fusion parent Univision Communications. Buried toward the end of…
After years of trading physical dollars for digital dimes, the music industry is finally seeing a payoff. Subscriptions to streaming music services jumped about 50 percent in 2016, topping 92 million. For the first time since the heyday of CDs, revenue for the largest record labels is consistently rising. But things don’t look as bright…
GTM DataLayer Umbel End Umbel [if lte IE 9]>< ![endif][if gte IE 10]>< ![endif] Google Tag Manager Container End Google Tag Manager Container Tony Haile’s new project is still in the planning stages. But it’s interesting. Phonograph End Phonograph Source: News Corp, the New York Times and Axel Springer are backing Scroll, a subscription service...
Setting records across the board, Shane, Shep and Corey were joined this year by Jillian who hit the ground running right before the biggest week of the year. The GMG Commerce Team is stacked, and I couldn’t be more excited to see what they accomplish in the new year. In total, the team has published…
Let’s build a simple reverse tracking wall. This is a way to encourage users to install or configure tracking protection, by rewarding them with access to particular web pages. Step zero. Make a page that we want to protect. Done. We were going to do that anyway. Step one. Add the scripts to the page….
Last March, Ev Williams described his publishing platform, Medium, as a superior alternative to the rest of the web. “It’s a simplistic view to say go where the people are,” Williams said. “You need to go where the right people are.” Turns out that being among the right people — the publishers, tech executives, and…
President-elect Donald Trump threatened to impose a “big border tax” on General Motors in a tweet on Jan. 3. (Reuters) Ford chief executive Mark Fields said Tuesday the automaker was ditching its plans to open a factory in Mexico and instead expanding a Michigan plant, creating 700 more local jobs. The next wave of workers…