Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
After a year or so of reporting on matters of diversity, Complex Media website NTRSCTN (read as “Intersection”) is calling it a standalone day. From editor in chief Shanté Cosme’s farewell note: In order to appreciate each other’s differences, we need to understand the ways in which we’re all the same. We need a place…
Illustration by Tony O. Champagne For years now, media analysts have said technology will save print—and maybe it will, just not in the way they predicted. The news industry is going through an overload of information particularly in the digital sphere. We can point our fingers at the 24-hour news cycle. We can blame social…
The White House Correspondents’ Association’s annual dinner has grown into a nearly week long event. In the documentary “Nerd Prom: Inside Washington’s Wildest Week” Patrick Gavin exposes a private world of excess and extravagance surrounding the celebration. (Patrick Gavin) During last year’s White House Correspondents Dinner, I remember nodding along with my television set when Christi Parsons,…
You don’t always hear the bubble burst. Often, it’s more a gradual escaping of air, signaled by nothing more than the occasional queasy feeling you bat away: One house for sale on the block, oh well. Two, three—maybe just a robust market? Five, six, seven—and suddenly everyone’s underwater and the sheriff is at your door….
Advertisers adjusted spending accordingly. In the first quarter of 2016, 85 cents of every new dollar spent in online advertising will go to Google or Facebook, said Brian Nowak, a Morgan Stanley analyst. The power shift was made clear last week as the Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg took the stage for the company’s annual…
Image via Getty and Shutterstock You may have heard about the latest dustup between Jeff Jarvis, a media futurist and journalism professor, and his satirical online alter-ego, @ProfJeffJarvis, who was created several years ago by a software developer named Rurik Bradbury to mock the jargon-laden prognostications for which Jarvis and his ilk are known. The…
(Twitter) For more than four years, the much-beloved Twitter account @ProfJeffJarvis has skewered and satirized the “thinkfluencers” of the Web. But in a the next few days, the handle will disappear. Its creator is finally changing it. Rurik Bradbury, the man behind @ProfJeffJarvis, hopes the name change will settle his raging four-year fight with the real Professor Jarvis. Jarvis, a…
I finally had it tonight. Again. The parody account that uses my name showed up as the byline on a piece at Esquire that praised a ridiculous and much-ridiculed op-ed in which Jim VandeHei called for a third-party candidacy led by Mark Zuckerberg. VendeHei’s op-ed was self-parody enough but that didn’t stop Esquire and this…
Colin Lokey, also known as “Tyler Durden,” is breaking the first rule of Fight Club: You do not talk about Fight Club. He’s also breaking the second rule of Fight Club. (See the first rule.) After more than a year writing for the financial website Zero Hedge under the nom de doom of the cult classic’s anarchic…
Over the years, Zero Hedge has proven to be a magnet for media attention. It started years ago with a NY Magazine article published in September 2009 which first “unmasked” the people behind Zero Hedge with the “The Dow Zero Insurgency: The nothing-can-be-believed chaos of the financial crisis created a golden opportunity for a blog…