Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Snapchat, the social network best known for its disappearing images, has updated its terms of service to give it the right to store users’ photos forever. The company’s new privacy policy and terms of service dramatically broaden the scope of what it can do with users’ photos and likeness. People must agree to the updated…
New budding romantic relationships are times of excitement in our lives. We’re excited about the possibilities of what could be built with this other person, while simultaneously ripping our hair out and overanalyzing every single reaction we have with this person. Or maybe it’s just me? And in today’s prominence of instant communication and need for…
From getting news to playing games to reading a book, Americans now have a plethora of devices to choose from in order to meet their technology-based needs. For each type of device, the demographic makeup of owners can vary widely, so this section looks at these differences. Smartphone ownership continues to grow The rise of…
There are two ideas that people on the internet love to hide behind when they get in trouble, despite the fact that they have absolutely no understanding of what those ideas actually mean. The first is freedom of speech, which countless assholes have used as justification for death threats, rape threats, and other things that…
Earlier this week we made a mistake. By cancelling two sessions we sent an unintended message that SXSW not only tolerates online harassment but condones it, and for that we are truly sorry. The resulting feedback from the individuals involved and the community-at-large resonated loud and clear. While we made the decision in the…
For patient T6, 2014 was a happy year. That was the year she learned to control a Nexus tablet with her brain waves, and literally took her life quality from 1980s DOS to modern era Android OS. A brunette lady in her early 50s, patient T6 suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (also known as Lou…
In light of certain arguments currently taking place on the internet, we would like to issue a gentle reminder of a fact: Twitter is public. The things you write on Twitter are public. They are published on the world wide web. They can be read almost instantly by anyone with an internet connection on…
This article originally appeared on AlterNet. Mariana Mazzucato is a professor in the Economics of Innovation program at the Science Policy Research Unit of the University of Sussex. Her widely acclaimed book, The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths, reveals the critical role that we, the taxpayers, play in the creation of the most…
.entry-header October 27, 2015, 5:36 PM EDT E-mail Tweet Facebook Linkedin Share icons You know that “Other” inbox on Facebook, the one whose messages you never notice and are mostly spam? Well, it’s going away, Facebook said on Tuesday. Instead, Facebook FB is replacing it with what it calls “Message Requests,” which will appear at…
A very nice editor at Huffington Post contacted me yesterday, and asked me if I would be willing to grant permission for the site to republish my post about the seven things I did to reboot my life. Huffington Post has a lot of views, and reaches a pretty big audience, and that post is…