Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Everything old, or not really that old, is new again in Silicon Valley. According to a new report from the Wall Street Journal, Google is working on its answer to Snapchat. It’s called Stamp — a portmanteau of “stories” and “AMP,” the acronym for Accelerated Mobile Pages, Google’s quick-loading web articles — and you could…
By Patrick Kulp2017-09-01 18:47:07 UTC Pour one out for Juicero.The company behind the infamously useless $400 machine that empties fruit pulp out of bags has officially run out of juice. The once-hyped startup became a poster child for Silicon Valley’s most ridiculous excesses when Bloomberg discovered earlier this year that it could be disrupted by…
Even though she’s been wiped clean from the web, I still found Nicole Mincey. The Nicole Mincey who was personally thanked by President Trump on Twitter over the weekend. The one everyone thinks is a bot. She’s a real person—with a slightly different name—living in Newark, New Jersey. The online phone number listed for the…
Following a slew of Facebook measurement errors, a bombshell ad fraud report by White Ops and an uproar over ads on YouTube appearing next to extremist content, many advertisers remain flummoxed by programmatic advertising. About a year ago, Digital Content Next, a trade association for premium publishers including News Corp, Hearst and The Washington Post,…
Publishers are running into a wall with so-called native ads. Once seen as the panacea for declining digital ad rates, these ads that are designed to mimic editorial content have turned out to be costly to make and distribute and hard to scale, which makes them a tough sell with advertisers and also eats into…
I don’t think I’m alone in saying that Paul Graham used to be one of my heroes. My memories of my first steps into the world of software development are no longer crisp. The texture of it, the day-to-day, the mechanisms by which my skills solidified —that’s all faded. Mostly what I remember is the…
Read your ebook purchases where and when you want Intrusive DRM often means ebooks you’ve purchased can only be read on one type of device, especially when it comes to the Amazon products like the Kindle Voyage. Here’s how to remove ebook DRM, so you can read your purchases on any of your multiple devices, including…
Twitter GoDaddy no longer wants to host the Daily Stormer on its servers. The known white supremacist site angered the hosting company after it posted a defamatory post mocking the death and appearance of Heather Heyer, the woman killed at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday. On Sunday, GoDaddy posted on…
react-text: 248 On Saturday, at /react-text react-text: 249 a Charlottesville rally populated by alt-right activists and white supremacists, a car plowed into a crowd of counter-protestors, injuring 19 and /react-text react-text: 251 killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer /react-text react-text: 252 . The man arrested in connection with the murder, James Alex Fields, Jr., had previously /react-text…
An image being shared online that people are claiming shows a black police officer guarding Saturday’s white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was actually posted in July. Tim Hogan, who worked for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and is now the national press secretary for a Washington, DC, nonprofit, also shared the image on Saturday with…