Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
From the time the first commercials aired during the American pro football championship game last month, CSI: Cyber has been one of the more talked-about and least-anticipated shows in recent memory. At least in tech circles. For normal viewers, it’s one of those shows that you wake up in the middle of at 10:27 after…
Call-out culture refers to the tendency among progressives, radicals, activists, and community organizers to publicly name instances or patterns of oppressive behaviour and language use by others. People can be called out for statements and actions that are sexist, racist, ableist, and the list goes on. Because call-outs tend to be public, they can enable…
HBO’s online-only service will cost $15 per month, report says ‘Game of Thrones’ received its first Golden Globes nomination since Season 1. Image: HBO By Jason Abbruzzese2015-03-04 20:26:40 UTC Details about HBO’s online streaming service emerged on Wednesday, including that it will be called “HBO Now” and cost $15 per month. The service could launch…
The challenge of being a futurist pioneer is being Patient Zero for the future’s headaches. In 2009, Raul Rojas, a computer science professor at the Free University of Berlin (and a robot soccer team coach), built one of Germany’s first “smart homes.” Everything in the house was connected to the Internet so that lights, music,…
In 1997, a writer and web developer named Paul Ford walked into a sushi restaurant in midtown Manhattan to meet a group of strangers. These were bloggers—a term not yet widely in use—who, along with Ford, formed a tight-knit vanguard of individuals publishing personal writing online. Ford had been building experimental personal websites since 1993, and had…
Photo: Talia Herman/Backchannel Why I’m Saying Goodbye to Apple, Google and Microsoft I’m putting more trust in communities than corporations When I became a technology columnist in the mid-1990s, the public Internet was just beginning its first big surge. Back then, I advised my readers to avoid the semi-political, even religious battles that advocates of…
Facebook is a big and maddening place. Antiviral wants to make it better. To that end, we’re putting together a comprehensive guide to the new, bad, weird, and bullshit “news sites” that are appearing on your feed. Here’s part one: “Satire.” Ever since Facebook completed its evolution from a Friendster ripoff to an internet-transforming Elder…
While the Hillary Clinton campaign seems unperturbed by recent problematic disclosures by Politico into the Hillary Clinton Foundation, the former first lady and current democrat presidential hopeful will have a field day explaining why, as the NYT reported overnight, Hillary – in her role as Secretary of State – “exclusively used a personal email account…
Her violations of public records rules indicate little regard for the people’s right to information. Kevin Lamarque/Reuters On January 13, 2009, Hillary Clinton attended her first confirmation hearing as a Secretary of State nominee. The same day, with Bush officials still under fire for using private email accounts to circumvent public records laws, someone registered…
WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton exclusively used a personal email account to conduct government business as secretary of state, State Department officials said, and may have violated federal requirements that officials’ correspondence be retained as part of the agency’s record. Mrs. Clinton did not have a government email address during her four-year tenure at the…