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Freelancing is feminist. Or, at least, an increasing number of women think it can be. In a study last year of nearly 2,000 freelancers commissioned by Freelancers Union and conducted by the independent research firm Edelman Berland, we found an important, surprising piece of data: A clear majority of full-time freelancers—53%—are women. That’s significant when…
Traffic jam in SimCity (Photo credit: SimCity) After GigaOm, The Non-VC “SimCity” Approach To Growing A Media Business I can’t speak with any authority about why GigaOm suddenly ran out of money. But I’ve already seen the rumblings about what it may mean for other tech and vertical publications. Are they also likely in trouble?…
Photo Inside a Facebook data center. While few companies now handle Facebook-level computation, expectations are for huge loads to become commonplace at many companies.Credit Alan Brandt/Facebook, via Associated Press Facebook’s plan to change big computing is moving fast and is attracting more companies to its plans. The company announced on Tuesday that it would give…
Gawker Media runs on tips and leaks from people with information to share. To make that sharing as private as possible, we are announcing our newest, most secure method for sending things to our reporters and editors: the Gawker Media SecureDrop. If you have something to tell us, or a document or file to provide…
Tech media eulogized one of its own on Tuesday when GigaOm abruptly announced it had run out of money and was ceasing operations after eight years. GigaOm had a big-name founder, blogger Om Malik, and loads of money ($22 million) from VC backers, and was seemingly on the march, snapping up PaidContent in 2012. According to…
There was a time when the idea of Netflix releasing a program on a weekly basis seemed strange, with its rollout of “Better Call Saul” in the U.K. But after a bleary eyed, snowy, week with “House of Cards” that’s changed. Hearing that Netflix will release episodes of “Between,” a new Canadian drama starring Jeanette McCurdy, concurrently with its broadcast dates…
What has director Joseph Kosinski been up to since wrapping up Oblivion? Well, it sounds like he’s been getting Tron 3, the sequel to Tron: Legacy, ready to film. Yes, folks, it looks like we’re getting another trip to the neon-lit Grid. VancityBuzz, a local Vancouver blog, broke the news that filming on Tron 3…
The South Bronx isn’t falling for Fresh Direct’s dirty trucks .article-header Another day, another tale of social and environmental injustice. This one takes us to the South Bronx, where residents are trying to keep Fresh Direct, a popular food delivery service, from setting up shop in their neighborhood and flooding their streets with delivery trucks….
We don’t normally think of unpaid work as relevant to the economy. Housework – the cycle of cooking, cleaning, wiping, soothing, ironing that forms the daily life of so many women around the world (and yes, the emergence of the New Man notwithstanding, it is still women who do the vast bulk of unpaid work)…
Wikipedia is suing the NSA over surveillance programs that involve tapping internet traffic en masse from communications infrastructure in the U.S. in order to search it for intelligence purposes. The lawsuit argues that this broad surveillance, revealed in documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, violates the First Amendment by chilling speech and the open exchange…