Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
(Tien Mao/Gothamist) Jimmy McMillan, he of perpetual office-seeking and a beard that would chagrin a topiary, is being evicted from his rent-stablized East Village apartment. According to the Daily News, the freewheeling leader of the Rent Is Too Damn High party has been served an eviction notice ousting him from his $872 per month St….
Pushbullet isn’t new, but since I installed it maybe a year ago, it has sneakily gotten a lot better, especially for Android phones. And as I used to it to text from my browser for the umpteenth time yesterday, it struck me how great it’s really become. So maybe you’ve heard already but let me…
Gobs of new open source projects are released every year, but only a few really capture the imaginations of businesses and developers. Open source software management company Black Duck tries to spot these, measuring which projects attract the most contributors, produce the most code, and garner the most attention from the developer world at large….
A passerby walks his dog near an accumulation of snow on Jan. 27, 2015, in Central Park in New York. Snow levels in New York have ranged from 7.8 inches in Central Park to more than 28 inches in Eastern Long Island. Photo by Yana Paskova/Getty Images In the run-up to this week’s blizzard, some…
What’s a pizza company to do if they want to get in on that sweet50 Shades of Greycash cow action, but have absolutely no promo connection to the infamous amalgam of Freaky Friend Fiction word snippets masquerading as dialogue? How about an ad referencing BDSM? OK, great, but even better: how about an ad that…
This year marked a time when media companies began seeing themselves akin to technology companies. Media and tech have always been in lockstep, one driving innovation in the other, but in 2014 that partnership started to creep into they way some companies actually defined themselves. And technology suppliers have been all too happy to…
Photo via Flickr/StevieHave any cash lying around that you’re just chomping at the reins to get rid of? Perhaps you’d be interested in this startup filing an IPO to fund it’s hunt for Bigfoot.That’s right, Bigfoot. According the Wall Street Journal, Carmine “Tom” Biscardi, a man who has been on the quest to find Bigfoot for…
Negotiation is an information-trading game. The more useful information you have, the more easily you can negotiate successfully. Imagine that you’re house-hunting. You mention to your friend Angie, “So, I saw there’s a really nice house on the market, not far from you. I’m going to look at it tomorrow.” Angie says “Is it a…
Bank of England Governor Mark Carney has attacked eurozone austerity. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA The Bank of England governor, Mark Carney, has launched a strong attack on austerity in the eurozone as he warned that he single-currency area was caught in a debt trap that could cost it a second lost decade. Speaking in Dublin, Carney…
One Week of Harassment on Twitter Ever since I began my Tropes vs Women in Video Games project, two and a half years ago, I’ve been harassed on a daily basis by irate gamers angry at my critiques of sexism in video games. It can sometimes be difficult to effectively communicate just how bad this…