Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
The Perks Are Great. Just Don’t Ask Us What We Do. 50onRed is a fixture in Philly’s tech scene. But there’s something the leadership didn’t talk about, even with some of its own staff. The company seemed like the perfect place for Tyler. After working in the agency world, Tyler (not his real name) wanted…
It’s apparently become a little easier to access Forbes content if you have an adblocker on. Previously — as recently as last week — Forbes was requiring users to turn off their adblockers or log into Forbes with a Google or Facebook account, which meant turning over personal data like email addresses and contacts. In…
I am on the record as liking Uber. I like its service, which has revolutionized urban mobility by improving convenience, taking cars off the road, and (most likely) reducing incidents of impaired driving. I’m partial to its swashbuckling style, particularly when confronting taxi interests and municipal regulators who are more concerned with self-preservation than the…
The world’s biggest oil traders take price slumps, trade sanctions and natural disasters in stride. The decline of a vintage Internet company has them quaking. Yahoo! Inc.’s Messenger has for almost 18 years been the default communication tool for the men and women who each day move billions of dollars’ worth of crude oil and…
In the early days of the social web, putting someone’s name in multiple parentheses was meant to give that person a cute virtual hug. Today, it’s something far more sinister. Neo-Nazis, anti-Semites and white nationalists have begun using three sets of parentheses encasing a Jewish surname — for instance, (((Fleishman))) — to identify and…
Spoiler alert: Ad blocking is a serious problem; it’s just a little unclear exactly how big of one. Take Britain. If you look at the IAB’s figures, which it conducted with YouGov, 22 percent of U.K. adults are blocking ads. Wait a minute, market research company GlobalWebIndex says the figure is 37 percent. According to Pagefair…
A Google Chrome plugin with the seemingly innocent name of “Coincidence Detector” has one sole purpose: compiling and exposing the identities the names in three sets of parentheses — i.e., (((Fleishman))) — on web pages. As Mic detailed in a story earlier this week, white supremacists have begun using the construction, called an “(((echo))),” to…
In the early days of the social web, putting someone’s name in multiple parentheses was meant to give that person a cute virtual hug. Today, it’s something far more sinister. Neo-Nazis, anti-Semites and white nationalists have begun using three sets of parentheses encasing a Jewish surname — for instance, (((Fleishman))) — to identify and…
Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Microsoft reached an agreement with the EU on Tuesday to block illegal hate speech from their services in Europe. The four internet giants have agreed that they will investigate reports of offensive dialog within 24 hours and either remove or disable access to the content, if it’s found to violate EU…
Begin: WordPress Article Content Facebook, Twitter, Google’s YouTube, Microsoft as well as the European Commission unveiled a new code of conduct to remove hate speech according to community guidelines in less than 24 hours across these social media platforms. The EU has ramped up efforts leading to this code of conduct following the recent terrorist…