Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Photo David Carr in 2008. Credit Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times close shareTools David Carr, who wrote about media as it intersects with business, culture and government in his Media Equation column for The New York Times, died at the office on Thursday. He was 58. Continue reading the main story Related Coverage close…
It’s going to be unbearably cold this weekend, so we’re being treated to some unbearably irritating (though incredibly necessary) subway changes. Some things of note: the L will once again suspend service between 8th Avenue and 14th Street-Union Square, the N is suspended between Astoria-Ditmars Blvd and Queensboro Plaza during the day, and Brooklyn-bound 4…
$8,000 each month with another $3,000 for housing. Welcome to the life of a Silicon Valley intern. Six-figure salaries. Flexible hours. Luxury housing. Ah, the life of an intern. This past weekend, high school senior Tiffany Zhong, the chief product officer of the app Glimpse and one of the tech industry’s “55 Unknown Rock Stars”…
In August 2013, soon after Chelsea Manning announced that she identified as a woman and no longer wanted to be known as Bradley Manning, The Times made a quick – and I thought appropriate – adjustment. Articles began referring to Private Manning with the feminine pronoun and the use of the name Chelsea. It caused…
The WordPress REST API is a huge initiative and feature plugin being developed for the core WordPress project. But it can be a bit confusing if you don’t know much about it yet. Let’s discuss what this project is, why it’s important, and how to get involved. The WordPress REST API project is the most exciting…
With 288 million active users sending around 500 million tweets each day, Twitter offers plenty of opportunities to grab attention. Sometimes that attention is positive, as it was when semi-employed comedian Justin Halpern started the account Shit My Dad Says and found himself on the receiving end of book deals, mentions on The Daily Show,…
An FBI crackdown and skyrocketing rents in San Francisco are forcing them to take side jobs—like driving for Uber—or leave. It’s a story built for headlines: Monied men in Silicon Valley create a demand for highly compensated sex work that can easily be coordinated using the same apps and services they create at their desk…
On Wednesday, Gawker reporter J. K. Trotter published a bombshell exposé accusing Mic.com news director Jared Keller of stealing from at least eight news organizations for as many as 20 feature stories. Gawker’s story was passed to me by a friend and colleague who knew that Jared and I, once friends, have not been on good terms…
NSFW The image contained in this post shocked me — but it also made me think about art and censorship. An image is worth a thousand words, right? I think Plato said that, or maybe it was Miley Cyrus. And for the past day, I’ve been contemplating an image of a bloody knife-as-phallus, attached to a pair…
paging_filterJournalists at The Wall Street Journal are grumbling about a new policy governing the number of people who can be credited with bylines or taglines on articles.Editors and reporters at Rupert Murdoch’s American broadsheet were informed this week that stories should generally carry no more than two bylines, including reporting credits that are often tagged…