Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
In yet another announcement addressed to the wider Reddit community, new CEO and cofounder Steve Huffman, also known as /u/spez, will host an AMA on Thursday to present an institutionalized Content Policy for users. Huffman wrote: Neither Alexis nor I created Reddit to be a bastion of free speech, but rather as a place where…
Facebook has been under fire for sometime over its ‘real name’ policy but what happens if you create a completely fake person and let strangers on the internet decide who they are? That’s what Joe Veix decided to do. The writer and inveterate Web experimenter – I previously wrote about his Chrome extension which obliterates…
cache hit 1941:single/related:ef52edc7d2f6ab3ca570ea6c629c74e8 empty There’s some drama going down in the Flash camp. Yesterday, because of two unpatched Hacking Team zero-day vulnerabilities, Mozilla blacklisted Adobe Flash Player 18.0.0.203, meaning Flash was disabled by default in Firefox. This morning, just a few moments ago, Adobe rushed out version 18.0.0.209, plugging the two vulnerabilities. Meanwhile, over at Facebook, the…
More Americans get news on Twitter and Facebook than in the past, according to a new report by Pew Research Center in association with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The survey of 2,035 U.S. adults sheds light on Americans’ evolving news and information habits on the two platforms. Here are five key…
I mainly interview journalists who are launching really innovative products in smaller newsrooms, but this week I decided to change things up a bit and talk to a software developer. His name is Dave Winer and he’s probably most well-known for this contributions to blogging, podcasting and content management platforms. Dave is one of those people who makes…
cache hit 1932:single/related:ef52edc7d2f6ab3ca570ea6c629c74e8 empty There’s some drama going down in the Flash camp. Yesterday, because of two unpatched Hacking Team zero-day vulnerabilities, Mozilla blacklisted Adobe Flash Player 18.0.0.203, meaning Flash was disabled by default in Firefox. This morning, just a few moments ago, Adobe rushed out version 18.0.0.209, plugging the two vulnerabilities. Meanwhile, over at Facebook, the…
Photo Alexis Ohanian, a co-founder of Reddit.Credit Noam Galai/Getty Images for Techcrunch Over the last week, the circumstances surrounding the dismissal of a Reddit employee, a move that led to a huge user uprising and the resignation of the site’s interim chief executive, have been murky at best. Now those details are starting to emerge….
When I left school at 16, in March 1979, my first job interview was for an admin position at a garage in Chelmsford. I was extremely nervous as I walked into a yard of men in greasy overalls, and as I was being interviewed I blushed as my eyes skipped around the office to the…
Lesbian, teen, stepmom, MILF, squirt. Lesbian, teen, stepmom, MILF, squirt. These aren’t just the perfect list of words for meditative chanting, but rather the top porn search terms typed stickily in by millennials, according to Pornhub. Viewed beside the next top five terms—mom, step sister, Japanese, threesome, massage—and it appears that being chill and progressive…
Yesterday, Ellen Pao stepped down as CEO of Reddit. Co-founder Steve Huffman will take her place. Pao’s resignation came after a week of heightened tension at the company and on the site, but her tenure had been fraught with controversy and backlash from the sites users since it began. May 2012 – Pao files lawsuit…