Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Last week, I wrote a piece called “Quiet Ladies. @Wadhwa is speaking now.” It was about this guy, Vivek Wadhwa, who has appointed himself the spokesMAN for women in tech. The Wadhwa piece was massively popular! I got a lot of fanmail – people told me I was “their new hero”, that “I was “brilliant”…
Courtesy of the press assets on Wadhwa’s bio page. Many tech feminists (such as myself) like to mock Vivek Wadhwa as “The Guy Who Gets Paid to Talk About Women in Tech,” but what he does is a serious problem that hurts women in tech in tangible ways. By appointing himself the unwanted spokesman for…
Twitter user Jeffry van der Goot says he was questioned by police after his Twitter bot made what appeared to be death threats. In a series of tweets first spotted by Fusion, van der Goot explains that his bot, which takes random words from his feed and jumbles them into new tweets, got him in what could…
Today we are announcing some significant changes to our Developer Program. Over the past several years, we’ve seen some exciting applications from our developer community. While many delivered value back to our members and LinkedIn, not all have. As such, we’ve taken steps to refocus the Developer Program from primarily open APIs to partnership integrations…
I really dislike the new Tumblr editor, for a variety of technical reasons. For example, if I create a blockquote with paragraph breaks (HTML <p> and </p>) in the HTML edit view, returning to the Rich Text view converts those to breaks (<br>), and then the paragraphs have no space between them. Grrr. But M.G…
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FILE – In this March 15, 2013, file photo, a Facebook employee walks past a sign at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Facebook is giving more options to decide what happens to users’ accounts after they die. The world’s biggest online social network will now let users pick a trusted contact who can manage…
7166 Twitter Facebook Email Share via email The World’s Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who is Going Broke Werner Koch’s code powers the email encryption programs around the world. If only somebody would pay him for the work. GooglePlus LinkedIn Reddit The World’s Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who is Going…
This weekend, a man wearing a skull mask posted a video on YouTube outlining his plans to murder me. I know his real name. I documented it and sent it to law enforcement, praying something is finally done. I have received these death threats and 43 others in the last five months. This experience is the basis of a Law & Order episode…
On Tuesday, iSIGHT Partners and Invincea disclosed an attack on Forbes.com, assumed to be the work of actors from China conducting an espionage campaign. But the way the disclosure was handled, including a sensational news cycle and required registration for actual details, makes it look as if both vendors are using the incident to increase…