Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Our frontline journalism could use a lot of help. Oh see, you f*cked it, you f*cked it all up, for about five minutes of history we were on course to courageously advance the world of journalism and then you slid your stupid face in front of the moment and just ruined everything. […] Our brave…
Our frontline journalism could use a lot of help. Oh see, you f*cked it, you f*cked it all up, for about five minutes of history we were on course to courageously advance the world of journalism and then you slid your stupid face in front of the moment and just ruined everything. […] Our brave…
How I learned how to record a Periscope live stream, part 1. Live streaming is making a comeback even though it’s technically been around for some time(UStream, Spreecast, Livestream.com etc). The capability these days has grown from desktop to mobile thanks to two new apps that are making waves across social media: Periscope and Meerkat….
In 2003, a multifaceted lifestyle crisis that I’d been cultivating for two years went supernova. During a Top 5 of All-Time hangover, I hatched swift and irreversible plans to quit my nine-year career with the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, sell my house, car and all my belongings, and flee the country. I told my…
What began around 10 p.m. Eastern Wednesday was still underway on Monday morning, according to GitHub. GitHub is still battling what it says is the largest DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack in the service’s history. What began around 10 p.m. Eastern Wednesday was still underway on Monday morning, according to GitHub’s Twitter feed. The…
The Ellen Pao-Kleiner Perkins trial, which went to jury deliberations yesterday, is a milestone case and it may well be a milestone verdict. Not just because $160 million in possible compensatory and punitive damages is an awful lot of money, but also because this is the highest-profile example yet of Silicon Valley’s boys club on…
Credit Illustration by Javier Jaén Not long ago, our blockbuster business books spoke in unison: Trust your gut. The secret to decision-making lay outside our intellects, across the aisle in our loopy right brains, with their emo melodramas and surges of intuition. Linear thinking was suddenly the royal road to ruin. Dan Ariely’s “Predictably Irrational”…
Facebook, a dull and endlessly scrolling record of personal propaganda and content headlined in two or more sentences, isn’t satisfied with the way its 1.4 billion users (most non-sentient) consume the news. According to theNew York Times, it takes an epic eight secondsfor the average Joe Facebook User to load an outside news link, clicked…
Earlier this week the New York Times reported that Facebook was offering publishers a deal: With 1.4 billion users, the social media site has become a vital source of traffic for publishers looking to reach an increasingly fragmented audience glued to smartphones. In recent months, Facebook has been quietly holding talks with at least half…
Nothing attracts news organizations like Facebook. And nothing makes them more nervous. With 1.4 billion users, the social media site has become a vital source of traffic for publishers looking to reach an increasingly fragmented audience glued to smartphones. In recent months, Facebook has been quietly holding talks with at least half a dozen media…