Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
The launch of Google’s AMP project looms this month, and not everyone is excited. The project’s site describes Accelerated Mobile Pages as “an initiative to improve the mobile web and enhance the distribution ecosystem” by providing “web pages that are optimised to load instantly on users’ mobile devices” and “designed to support smart caching, predictable…
Two years after Gamergate began and multiple restraining orders later, Zoe Quinn is walking away from a criminal harassment case in favor of talking openly about her story. (Erin Patrick O’Connor/The Washington Post) By all accounts, Zoe Quinn — the 28-year-old video game developer whose personal life sparked the Internet conflagration known as Gamergate — had a…
According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has designated Wednesday as the day of the week to make the massive employee cuts the company announced on its earnings call weeks ago. But, instead of just felling the ax at once on 15 percent of staff, she has dragged the pain out…
Kanye West has once again changed his release plans for The Life of Pablo, and this change will be pretty meaningful for listeners if he sticks to it: he says the album will only ever be available to Tidal subscribers. West had originally planned to stream the album exclusively on Tidal for a week while…
Facebook is opening up its Instant Articles program to all publishers starting on April 12, less than a year after launching the experiment with a handful of large media outlets. Now anyone with a website and a Facebook page anywhere in the world will be able to take advantage of the program, which lets publishers…
When Pizza reached 100,000 followers on Tumblr, she posted a picture of a pizza box, takeout chicken wings, and an orange soda spread out on her bed: “pizza and chicken wings 2 celebrate.” One fan replied, “CONGRATULATIONS GIRL! YOU DESERVE IT!” Another: “MOTHER OF GOD 100K?!?!” An anonymous user was unimpressed: “you only have 100k…
After a couple shot 14 people in San Bernardino, CA before being killed themselves on December 2nd, the authorities recovered a locked iPhone. Since then, the FBI has complained it is unable to break the device’s encryption, in a case that it has implied supports its desire for tech companies to make sure it can…
Incentives are fascinating. Dangle the right carrot in front of people and you can subtly influence their behavior. But it has to be the right carrot. It has to matter to the people you’re trying to influence. Just as importantly, it has to influence the correct changes. A few years ago there was a story…
Less than a year ago, Tidal was a punchline: a vanity project promoted by a slew of out of touch musicians who knew a crap ton about making music, but absolutely nothing about selling it. Now, Tidal is the number one free app on the Apple App Store. And it’s all because of exclusivity deals….
START “MORE FROM NEXT ECONOMY” Custom END “MORE FROM NEXT ECONOMY” Custom Many economists and technologists believe the world is on the brink of a new industrial revolution, in which advances in the field of artificial intelligence will obsolete human labor at an unforgiving pace. Two Oxford researchers recently analyzed the skills required for more…