Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
White Spaces In my ongoing quest to come up with a way to write more, I’ve been trying to think about the things stopping me. Sure, there are big things such as not having enough time. But there are also little things. In some cases, literally. Take, for example, the text entry box on various…
If you want to criticize Facebook on Facebook, good luck — and don’t be surprised if your grievances fail to go viral. Thanks to a little-known guideline that restricts references to its brand in boosted posts, Facebook Inc. may decline to give greater visibility to posts that reflect negatively on it. Call it Facebook’s own…
Last week, I wrote a piece called “Quiet Ladies. @Wadhwa is speaking now.” It was about this guy, Vivek Wadhwa, who has appointed himself the spokesMAN for women in tech. The Wadhwa piece was massively popular! I got a lot of fanmail – people told me I was “their new hero”, that “I was “brilliant”…
Courtesy of the press assets on Wadhwa’s bio page. Many tech feminists (such as myself) like to mock Vivek Wadhwa as “The Guy Who Gets Paid to Talk About Women in Tech,” but what he does is a serious problem that hurts women in tech in tangible ways. By appointing himself the unwanted spokesman for…
Twitter user Jeffry van der Goot says he was questioned by police after his Twitter bot made what appeared to be death threats. In a series of tweets first spotted by Fusion, van der Goot explains that his bot, which takes random words from his feed and jumbles them into new tweets, got him in what could…
NYT_INLINE_IMAGE_POSITION1 Correction AppendedPHILADELPHIAWEARING a Paul Green School of Rock T-shirt, his bangs plastered to his forehead in the summer heat, Laris Kreslins pulled in front of a handsome brownstone on Rittenhouse Square, the priciest neighborhood in the city, and hopped out of his car. Skip to next paragraph Ryan Donnell for The New York Times…
Remember how workers were supposed to retire and open up higher positions and jobs for young people to move in to? That’s not happening because retirement is basically dead! Instead we’ll get grayternships, where older workers who would normally have retired now will get transformed in to bankers who I AM SURE will do trustworthy…
Today we are announcing some significant changes to our Developer Program. Over the past several years, we’ve seen some exciting applications from our developer community. While many delivered value back to our members and LinkedIn, not all have. As such, we’ve taken steps to refocus the Developer Program from primarily open APIs to partnership integrations…
Mic.com’s Director of News Jared Keller has allegedly committed at least 20 instances of various levels of plagiarism, Gawker has found. Gawker’s J.K. Trotter said they received a tip about Keller’s writings and found several instances where Keller copied sentences nearly word for word from other sources without credit, and even more where Keller credited…
Mic.com, the news and opinion website aimed at millennials, has a very millennial problem: Its director of news, Jared Keller, appears to have plagiarized at least 20 passages from at least eight different news sources over the past several months. Keller was hired in April of last year as Mic’s director of programming. “Jared will…