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Google and Twitter are working together to help publishers show “instant articles” to people who use their services on mobile phones. The plan, which is supposed to launch with a small group of publishers this fall, is an effort to make it easier for publishers to distribute their stuff on mobile devices. It is also a response to similar…
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Scott Galloway, professor of marketing at NYU Stern School of Business, went after Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer this morning. On Bloomberg Surveillance, Galloway told host Tom Keene that Mayer’s announcement that she is pregnant with twins is what’s giving her job security. “If she hadn’t announced she was pregnant with twins, she’d be out of a…
No one outside Apple knows how many Apple Watches the company has sold since the product was released this past April, but in recent months there have been several signs that sales have been disappointing. On Apple’s August earnings call, Tim Cook was cagey about reporting concrete sales numbers for the Apple Watch, opting…
Brian Finke If you didn’t think the 2016 election season could get any more batshit crazy than it already is, now, John McAfee—the self-described “eccentric millionaire,” who founded the anti-virus software company McAfee, and who once played Russian roulette with a loaded gun while WIRED writer Joshua Davis stood by—says he is considering joining the…
Begin: WordPress Article Content Getting hacked is bad news… unless you’re a bunch of librarians. For three days “hackers” took over the American Library Association’s Facebook page and posted an endless stream of clickbaity articles and spam. The hackers had control of the page for three days and everything was returned to normal on Monday….
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(Facebook) In late August, Shannon Neuman and her husband Chris went to the municipal court in Calgary, Alberta, to get a divorce. They had already filled out the forms and taken the requisite seminars. They navigated the 24-story Courts Centre and dropped their papers off. Then, on their way out, Chris and Shannon — no…
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet HUNTING FOR THE END OF THE LONG TAIL • THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2015 Today in Tedium: They say that history is written by the people who win—a standard that translates to wars and land grabs of all types. But it also translates pretty effectively to format wars. Generally,…
An Interactive Guide to Ambiguous Grammar. Depending on whom you ask, the use of the active voice over the passive is arguably the most fundamental writer’s maxim, thought to lend weight, truth, and power to declarative statements. This absolutist view is flawed, however, because language is an art of nuance. From time to time, writers…