Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Aiming to strike a blow at Gawker’s journalistic credibility, Hulk Hogan’s legal team summoned an expert. But during a lengthy cross-examination in a St. Petersburg, Florida courtroom on Thursday, an attorney for Gawker portrayed that same expert witness as someone who is out of touch with the new media landscape. Appearing on the stand at…
When we brought Femsplain into the world, we never thought it would become as big as it is today. I never dreamed I’d be running a company at 24, but we did it because someone had to and we really believe in what we’re doing. With that, it’s important that we be transparent on where…
The Gawker editor who posted the Hulk Hogan sex tape defended publishing the video of the ex-wrestler in an X-rated position, saying he found it “amusing.” And the founder of Gawker said in a separate deposition he was “proud” of what was posted. The taped depositions shown in a Florida courtroom on Wednesday gave a…
Photo by Flickr user Roger H. Goun The union that represents journalists at The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch and Barron’s announced this week that Dow Jones, which owns the publications, pay men more than women in jobs of similar tenure. Male staffers with up to five years of experience, for example, earn an average of 13.5…
Regardless of the legality of what Gawker did when deciding to post a tape of Hulk Hogan sleeping with his former best friend’s then-wife, it’s really tough to stand up for the first amendment when the hill you’re going to die on is made of questionable newsworthiness and dick jokes. That’s what appears to be…
Glenn Beck opened his radio show today going off on “what the hell has happened to Matt Drudge.” The conservative radio host was spurred on this morning by Drudge Photoshopping Rubio as a midget after he didn’t win a single state last night: Beck said ever since Drudge started “hanging out with Alex Jones,” he’s…
The New Media is Made of Memes After months watching Snapchat’s irresistible Discover stories, I am everything but informed Gif by Ellen Porteus A year ago, Snapchat, the world’s fastest growing social network, told advertisers, media companies, and writers like me everything we wanted to hear. With the debut of its new media hub Discover,…
Donald Trump and his tiny hands at a rally in North Carolina (Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images, definitely not photoshopped by Gizmodo) Wired published an embarrassing correction to a story by Jason Tanz about Donald Trump today. Apparently he or his editors had a Chrome extension turned on that changed every mention of “Donald Trump”…
I spent part of yesterday afternoon watching a former co-worker explain a joke I’d once made in Campfire, the software we used for work chats. It wasn’t, necessarily, the strangest experience — except that it was occurring in a taped deposition that was being played in court, in the midst of a lawsuit that was being…
A while back, we ran an analysis on our posts to Facebook and concluded that the platform was largely time independent in terms of whether a post succeeded. A post at 4 AM on Saturday should be just as likely to find an audience as one at 10 AM on Tuesday. Despite a solid statistical…