Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Ana Redmond launched into a technology career for an exciting challenge and a chance to change the world. She was well-equipped to succeed too: An ambitious math and science wiz, she could code faster, with fewer errors, than anyone she knew. In 2011, after 15 years, she left before achieving a management position. Garann Means…
From: Paul Ford To: Virginia Heffernan Subject: Interested in being part of a Salon “Mothers who think” reboot? Virginia replied: Kind of, actually. Paul answered: Cool! Its called Mothers Who Tweet and its a cobrand with Maytag. No more than two tweets a week will be branded retweets and the rest will be original. If…
A helpful reader mentioned to me the other day that an interesting issue has cropped up in discussions within Github on the WordPress “Press This” tool. For those not familiar with this tool, go to “Tools” > “Available Tools” within your WordPress installation, where you’ll find a bookmarklet that you can add to your browser’s…
Yes, Ello still exists and it’s getting ready to reintroduce itself Rene Alegria, the first chief marketing officer of Ello, a social network that debuted last year. Image: Rene Alegria By Seth Fiegerman2015-02-19 19:21:11 UTC For a few glorious weeks last fall, Ello, once dubbed the anti-Facebook, had the kind of media coverage that many…
February 21, 2015 Weather: An Immediate, Personalized Form Of Breaking News We Can All Learn From It’s snowing in DC. I’m not going to write a long note today, but if you get a chance today, take a look at the Capital Weather Gang Twitter feed. You’ll notice that most of the information is crowdsourced from…
It’s tempting to think of Microsoft as some aging dinosaur. But it’s wrong. Change has been building for almost a year now. Yes Windows 8 was a mess, and the Xbox One’s early days were embarrassing, but Microsoft’s been sharpening its game with impressive speed. And now it is once again, hands down, the most…
I just finished reading “More Awesome Than Money” by Jim Dwyer about the rise and “fall” of Diaspora as a viable alternative to Facebook. I’ve often thought of Diaspora* as something that “came and went”; much of the story had passed when I heard about it, but while the project started in 2010, the story…
New NSA spying scandal emerges, highlighting the scale of cyber wars Agency can access hard-drives made by major U.S. producers Computers in over 30 countries, including NATO allies, were hacked Iran and Russia were main targets Revelations may impact technology sector in the U.S. as institutions around the world seek alternatives Kaspersky Lab, the Moscow-based…
Significant questions have arisen after a large number of images were disqualified from this year’s World Press Photo competition because of excessive — and sometimes blatant — post-processing. After independent experts examined the images being considered for prizes in the final rounds, and presented their findings to the jury, 20 percent of the photos were…
coins metadata inserted by kblog-metadata At some point Thursday, the title of Jon Ronson’s essay changed from “How One Stupid Tweet Ruined Justine Sacco’s Life” to “How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life.” The change helps, because while “blew up” is figurative language—and thus, obviously not to be taken literally—the statement that Sacco’s life was…