Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Over the last three days we saw a really clear example of the new world of news that Facebook is creating, whether you like it or not. On Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg defended his decision to show a video of Philando Castile — a black man who was shot by the police at a routine traffic…
Begin: WordPress Article Content As large platforms like Facebook and Apple position themselves as the new go-to places to read news, an independent app that started in Japan has landed a new round of funding to raise its own game. SmartNews — a news aggregation app that works with some 1,500 publications and selects stories for you based on your…
Photo Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and chief executive of Theranos, has seen her personal wealth fall from $4.5 billion to zero. Credit Brendan McDermid/Reuters United States regulators have banned Elizabeth Holmes, the chief executive of Theranos, from owning or operating a medical laboratory for at least two years, in a major setback for the embattled…
“Just by a quick show of hands, has anyone heard of a D.A.O. or an agent before?” asked Jonathan Mohan. He was in his mid-twenties and wore a beige Bitcoin T-shirt. As if to scratch my head, I halfway raised my right arm. A dozen others raced up past mine. Forty or fifty of us…
Spotify says Apple is using its App Store approval process as “a weapon.” Apple says that claim is a load of BS. In a letter sent to Spotify general counsel Horacio Gutierrez on Friday, Apple general counsel Bruce Sewell rebutted the streaming music service’s June 26 allegations that Apple is “causing grave harm to Spotify…
Yep, it’s not just you: Google Calendar appears to be down and has been since 9:47AM ET, according to Google’s App Status Dashboard. Try going to Google Calendar now and you’ll likely be greeted with a blank page, or a server error page that tells you in a handful of languages that your meetings today…
In a Facebook post, Scott Kleinberg said he had to quit working for Mayor Bill de Blasio “for the sake of my health and my sanity.”View Full Caption Getty/Kena Betancur CIVIC CENTER — Mayor Bill de Blasio’s new social media director has quit — saying in a scathing Facebook post that he had to do…
Facebook planted a flag Wednesday, declaring that the site will give greater weight to material posted by your friends and deemphasize content published by businesses and media outlets. The social network approached the issue with a rare bit of candor, stating that the change to its News Feed will likely hurt traffic to external websites….
Update (7:40 p.m.): Twitter has reactivated our @SCOTUSblog account and restored the deleted tweets. Today we had our annual running of the trolls — wherein we respond to people who direct mostly hateful and sometimes cute things to our @SCOTUSblog account, thinking it is the official Twitter account of the Supreme Court. We’ve done this…
Facebook announced on Wednesday it’s changing its News Feed to prioritize friends and family over news organizations, a shift that will cause referral traffic to publishers to decrease. The change was announced in a blog post addressed to Facebook users Wednesday that said users are “worried about missing important updates from the friends they care…