Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Last week, Facebook opened its Instant Articles format to all publishers. Using Instant Articles, they can now show readers using Facebook mobile a fast-loading version of their posts, while still also displaying some of their ads and measuring pageviews. Previously, Instant Articles was only available to a select number of official publisher partners. “Only now Instant…
At The Washington Post, we constantly strive to provide our readers with the best possible site and reading experience. One way we do this is through PageBuilder, an in-house product for our news editors to easily tweak, enhance or add content live on the site. We can take this a step further and add the ability for…
6:00 AM PDT 4/22/2016 by Marisa Guthrie Marisa Guthrie ABC News executives have long coveted a third hour for ‘Good Morning America’ Kelly Ripa is losing her Live with Kelly and Michael co-host Michael Strahan this summer. But will she also lose her show’s prime 9 a.m. time slot at some point as well? ABC…
AD UNIT 1 /AD UNIT 1 This morning in Palm Desert, Calif., the IAB is kicking off its annual leadership conference, an event which epitomizes its irrelevance to consumers. For those keeping score, in 2015 ad tech’s greatest existential challenge took form: the tremendous surge of ad blocking into mainstream consciousness. The IAB’s response to…
Adblock PlusBen Williams, operations and communications manager at Adblock Plus.Popular ad blocker Adblock Plus claims that it was uninvited from the US Interactive Advertising Bureau’s big conference. The IAB represents the biggest names in the digital-advertising industry: Google, Facebook, Twitter, online publishers, and ad-tech companies. Each year it holds its annual leadership meeting in Palm Desert,…
Adblock PlusBen Williams, operations and communications manager at AdBlock Plus.President and CEO of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Randall Rothenberg used the opening keynote speech at the IAB summit to accuse Adblock Plus of being an “unethical, immoral, mendacious coven of techie wannabes” and an “old-fashioned extortion racket.” The vitriol came after Adblock Plus complained…
The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) is a non-profit organization that empowers journalists and engages citizens with new technologies and best practices. ICFJ’s networks of reporters and media entrepreneurs are transforming the field. We believe that better journalism leads to better lives. A newly created position, ICFJ’s Director of Technology will put in place new…
Fusion is no longer a fusion. Univision announced on Thursday that it had purchased Disney’s piece of Fusion, a company founded as a joint venture in October 2013 with the vision of making a media organization that could capture the attention of a growing young latino audience. As part of the deal, Univision is reorganizing some…
AD UNIT 1 /AD UNIT 1 I recently watched Adam McKay’s Oscar-winning film “The Big Short.” For those who are unfamiliar with the film, “Four denizens in the world of high-finance predict the credit and housing bubble collapse of the mid-2000s, and decide to take on the big banks for their greed and lack of…
noteaser In July 2015 I suggested that the average web page weight would equal that of the Doom install image in about 7 months time. In about 7 months average web page size will be same as Doom install image. Well done us! Onwards & upwards! pic.twitter.com/xtSAtZjPGl — ronan cremin (@xbs) July 30, 2015 Well,…