Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
This custom PC is too small to be a desktop, but too big for a laptop. It’s a unique portable build, something out of an 80s cyberpunk world. And that’s what actually inspired its builder Chimerus: portable cyberdecks from Shadowrun. Looks like a busted replica at first, but even though the build is based on…
Cigar maker. Elevator operator. Pinsetter. Iceman. Lamplighter. Switchboard operator. Local daily newspaper reporter? How soon will we have to add this once-stable occupation to the list of jobs that once were — occupations once numerous that slid into obsolescence? (Not to mention the even more colorful spittleman [hospital attendant], rotarius [wheelwright], and hamberghmaker [horse collar…
William Arkin, the founder of Gawker Media’s national security site, announced on Twitter Monday he is leaving the company during a round of buyouts offered to the editorial staff amid a reorientation of the site. Yes it is true: I am leaving Gawker and @GawkerPhaseZero, casualty, refugee of whatever it is that happened. Not quite…
Leah Finnegan, Gawker’s features editor, announced on Monday she is leaving the site as Gawker Media offers buyouts and realigns itself around new editorial standards. V. sad to leave gawker after 1 year. it was a great place. if you need an editor lmk. leah@leahfinnegan.com — Leah Finnegan (@leahfinnegan) July 27, 2015 Finnegan, who joined…
At least three editorial staffers at Gawker Media are leaving as the company appears to be undergoing dramatic changes William Arkin, who founded the company’s national security-focused site, “Phase Zero,” announced Monday that he will be departing Gawker Media. In a post on the site, Arkin called himself a “casualty” of the internal turmoil that…
In light of a story that divided the Gawker staff, Brian Stelter speaks with Nick Denton, founder of Gawker Media, about the future of his company. Meltdown at Gawker Media; what now?.
paging_filter Last week, Gawker Media C.E.O. Nick Denton announced that he would offer generous severance packages to employees who quit because they objected to Gawker’s new editorial policy. On July 16, Gawker published a controversial post about a male media executive, with a wife and three kids, who allegedly solicited a male escort. After near-universal…
He really is sorry for the unavoidable delay. Charlie Pellett, a Bloomberg Radio news anchor and reporter who is the voice behind the “Stand Clear of the Closing Doors” announcement, may send you into conniptions every time you hear his voice inside your subway train, but in real life, he seems impossible to get mad…
Today the controversy-beset website moved to new offices. But is its founder really in it for the long haul, as he insists? One night in mid-June, weeks before his privately-held company suffered a very public meltdown over the widely condemned outing of a heterosexually married Condé Nast executive, Gawker Media founder Nick Denton had dinner…
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, OH (WOIO) – An investigation has launched after a 37-year-old Cleveland woman died in jail over the weekend.Ralkina Jones died at the Cleveland Heights Police Station Jail located at 40 Severance Circle on Sunday. The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner performed an autopsy on Monday and identified no suspicious injuries. A cause of death is pending further…