Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Jan 7 We complain all the time about how today’s popular country music pretty much all sounds the same, but is this really true from a technical standpoint? That is what one enterprising Audiophile and songwriter set out to illustrate by making a mashup of some of Bro-Country’s biggest singles over the last couple of…
Tom Francis used to write for PC Gamer, and then he decided to make his own game. The problem was that he had very little idea of how to actually do that. He started from scratch, and the result was Gunpoint, a successful title “about rewiring things and punching people.” He’s now working on a…
Was The Times cowardly and lacking in journalistic solidarity when it decided not to publish the images from the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo that precipitated the execution of French journalists? Some readers I’ve heard from certainly think so. Evan Levine of New York City wrote: “I just wanted to register my extreme disappointment at…
Some bearded dudes, courtesy Bristlr. Kershaw, the creator of the dating site, is third from right. (Bristlr) It’s probably one of the most annoying, and most inevitable, aspects of online dating: No matter who you are or what site you use, you’re bound to get a boatload of generic messages that look like they were…
Louis XIV has been enthroned on a horse on the Place des Victoire in Paris since 1828. However, the Sun King had to reconquer his place on the streets of the French capital, after his statue was melted into cannons by revolutionaries and was briefly replaced by a naked general. Today, Place des Victoire…
TRANSCRIPT JUDY WOODRUFF: The attacks in Paris were focused on a very different kind of newspaper, as we just heard. But, every day, traditional journalists are facing real dangers and threats. In fact, the past three years have seen the highest number of journalists killed or imprisoned in recent times. Jeffrey Brown has our look….
Photo Credit The New York Times close shareTools Some of the most popular reading material on the Internet, at least among the meta-humor-loving tech-industry types, is now being provided by URLs. You know, the name of the website you are perusing, plus the string of words, numbers and dashes that follow. Dean Praetorius, a 26-year-old…
Disappointing, but not surprising. (Steve Debenport/iStock) As a follow-up to recent studies on sexism and harassment in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math), researchers studied the Internet’s reaction to the evidence those studies provided — and it turned out the way you’d expect, if you’ve ever been on the Internet. Male commenters flipped out. The new study’s results were published…
Once were we young in the Garden… ======= section ======== The Internet is us, connected.The Internet is not made of copper wire, glass fiber, radio waves, or even tubes.The devices we use to connect to the Internet are not the Internet. Verizon, Comcast, AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, and 中国电信 do not own the Internet. Facebook, Google,…
W ithin the first few weeks of his participation this fall in the Philadelphia Social Innovations Lab — a semester-long program run by two University of Pennsylvania professors that helps social entrepreneurs incubate ideas to improve the city — Jim MacMillan had a sense of where he could have improved the Gun Crisis Reporting Project….