Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Two years ago, The Washington Post’s site was in rough shape. Years of tacked-on features had made it bloated and sluggish, forcing desktop readers to wait upwards of eight seconds for a page to load. The page was “almost in the E.R. when it came to performance,” said Gregory Franczyk, chief architect at The Washington Post. His one…
Moving on from Medium I recently left my job at Medium, where I worked for a year and a half editing The Nib. We published over 2,000 comics, built up a large readership and, I feel comfortable saying, did some work of real impact. Medium gave me a great opportunity to build something huge and…
I mainly interview journalists who are launching really innovative products in smaller newsrooms, but this week I decided to change things up a bit and talk to a software developer. His name is Dave Winer and he’s probably most well-known for this contributions to blogging, podcasting and content management platforms. Dave is one of those people who makes…
The Washington Post today published a nice blow job of a piece on so-called millennial news sites like .Mic, Fusion, and the hilariously named “Ozy.com,” and how these angel-invested content theme parks are capturing the minds of socially interested young ones (are they? they’re not). According to Fusion’s editor, Alexis Madrigal, his site is not…
GQ.com’s redesigned home page AD UNIT 1 /AD UNIT 1 GQ.com is getting a new look this year, and that includes making sure the site’s ads are ones people will look at. Ahead of a larger redesign that will debut in the fall, GQ is rolling out some tweaks to its site, including a revamped…
It wasn’t actually announced at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), but now it’s everywhere: Apple plans to introduce an ad-blocking feature to the Safari mobile browser for iOS9. HTML MODULE 4010 This is one of those moves that seems like, and perhaps is, a boon for users who are sick of slow-loading Web pages…
It didn’t get a mention in Apple’s big keynote announcements Monday — which already had plenty of interest to publishers — but deep within Apple’s developer documentation lies perhaps the most important item of all to the news industry. Adblocking is coming to the iPhone with iOS 9. Adblocking — running a piece of software…
Entry Text The conventional wisdom is that Internet users have the attention span of a goldfish — the shorter, the better. That’s what makes the runaway success of Bloomberg Businessweek’s “What Is Code?” — a 38,000-word opus on software engineering that took up an entire double issue of the magazine — all the more surprising….
Safari Content Blocker, Before and After Wednesday, 8 July 2015 Dean Murphy wrote an iOS 9 Safari Content Blocker, and tested it against iMore: With no content blocked, there are 38 third party scripts (scripts not hosted on the host domain) running when the homepage is opened, which takes a total of 11 seconds. Some of…
We’re hearing that the editorial staff of the The Daily What, one of the aggregator sites that pre-figured the current virally contorted media environment, is being laid off and that the site is potentially being shut down. Founded by Neetzan Zimmerman—who left to become Gawker’s viral editor and then Whisper’s editorial director—The Daily What was…