Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
The article that scared me most this election cycle appeared in the Washington Post, documenting how Melanie Austin, a single western Pennsylvania Trump supporter, gathered information about the world around her: almost exclusively vacuuming falsehoods via Google and social media. She is one among millions. You can blame Facebook outright for Trump’s victory, or not. But at…
In a world where a reality TV star has been elected president of the US, it seems increasingly believable that a culture where everyone is always being filmed, always able to share their most intimate moments at the push of a button, is coming. Consumer drones have exploded in popularity in recent years. These flying…
Image wrap box Free blurb with Takeaway Another week, another news site raising venture capital. Make that two. Politico co-founder Jim VandeHei’s new business and politics venture raised a $10 million series A from Lerer Hippeau Ventures and NBC. Cheddar, a video news network, raised $10 million more from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Ribbit Capital and…
Web of Trust’s browser was pulled for being, well, untrustworthy. Browser add-on caught selling identifiable web histories. Source: Browser add-on caught selling identifiable web histories
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at a 2016 “Innovation Hub” event in Berlin, Germany.Image: Kay Nietfeld/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images Facebook is promising yet again to tackle the spread of misinformation in your News Feed.”We value authentic communication, and hear consistently from those who use Facebook that they prefer not to see misinformation,” Adam Mosseri, the vice president of…
Against almost all expectations, Donald Trump has been elected president of the United States, and suddenly, the future of the open internet looks radically different. extended entry The future of the open internet looks radically different The release of the FCC’s net neutrality rules in 2015 heralded one of the most important progressive changes to the…
A claim that The Simpsons not only foresaw Donald Trump’s run for president but also predicted which states he’d carry is making the rounds online. But that claim is wrong. View this image › ID: 9955298 1. Versions of The Simpsons “prediction” have already gotten hundreds of thousands of shares on Facebook and Twitter. Not…
Nov 9, 2016 If I see one more ‘this election is Facebook’s fault’ tweet, take or thinkpiece I might spontaneously combust. Could you any more miss the point? Facebook is a tool for more efficiently deciding what content you see. The problem has never been how we look out on to the world, but what…
A generation ago, newspapers and television news programs had a lot of influence over what people read and watched. Stories that made it on the front page got a lot of attention, while most people never heard about stories that mainstream media outlets chose to ignore. Things are very different on the modern internet. Most…
close byline-meta close extended-byline close story-meta-footer close story-meta Photo Credit Doug Chayka Next week, if all goes well, someone will win the presidency. What happens after that is anyone’s guess. Will the losing side believe the results? Will the bulk of Americans recognize the legitimacy of the new president? And will we all be able…