Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
paging_filterNeetzan Zimmerman, who served as editor in chief of the secret-sharing app Whisper, has left the company, he confirmed to Capital.Zimmerman, “and other staff members,” have been suspended since late October, pending the results of an internal investigation. Whisper was the subject of a multi-part Guardian exposé in mid-October, which alleged that the company’s claim to…
It’s a little confusing. The cover of the next Charlie Hebdo features a cartoon of Mohammed holding a “Je suis Charlie” sign under the headline “Tout est Pardonné” (“All Is Forgiven”), which is a little confusing. Who, exactly, is forgiving whom? According to Charlie Hebdo columnist Zineb El Rhazoui, the drawing is a call to forgive gunmen Chérif and Saïd…
WIRED Ones: I need a few minutes of your attention to talk about how we treat the workspace we’ll fully occupy on Jan. 5. #newwiredoffice A photo posted by Scott Dadich (@sdadich) on Jan 5, 2015 at 9:56am PST We made a big investment in the construction and design of the new floor — more…
DeRay McKesson, a Minneapolis school administrator, has been interviewed by the Washington Post, Reuters, and The Atlantic, and gained more than 61,000 Twitter followers over the past five months. It’s all thanks to his frequent bursts of 140-character insight about the #blacklivesmatter movement, which sprung up after police officer Darren Wilson killed Michael Brown, a black 18 year old,…
If you existed in the year 2014, you have probably either cringed or sang along or cringed while singing along to Taylor Swift’s oppressively catchy song Shake It Off. Just why the hell is it so catchy ? Well, for one it’s pop. But also as Chilly Gonzales explains, it’s the same principles that has…
Credit Illustration by Edwin Fotheringham A: Hey, girl! So great to see you at Mike’s party on New Year’s. You free this week? Want to grab drinks? * B: Yo!!!!! Sorry it took me so long to respond. I’m the worst. Yes! I’d love to! First round is on me because I’m so terrible. Tuesday???…
Reclaim and make the most of the public domain at Open Book Hack Day on January 14, 2015 at The New York Public Library, brought to you by NYPL Labs and The Readium Foundation. During this day-long event, we’ll push the limits of what’s possible with ebooks and open texts, liberate public domain documents onto…
For the past two months, The New York Times has been running a very useful addition to its popular travel column “36 Hours,” a weekly series that informs readers how to spend a day and a half in a given city. The new feature, titled “Plan Your Next Adventure,” placed New York Times-recommended attractions on an interactive Google Map,…
As the ongoing Podcast Renaissance invigorates audio storytelling—you may have heard about a little program called Serial—social news site Reddit is grabbing a piece of the action to better share its most popular stories with a mobile audience. Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian recently announced a new endeavor: Upvoted, the official Reddit podcast that digs deeper…
Readers responded passionately, and in large numbers, to my post last week about The Times’s decision not to publish the now-famous Charlie Hebdo cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. (In fact, I’ve never had more comments on a post or column.) A vast majority of readers were critical of The Times’s decision, feeling strongly that both…