Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Building a journalism organization that exists mostly (or only) on social media and other platforms makes a kind of weird sense. After all, where would Twitter or Facebook be without the commercial driving power of media organizations using and advertising on them? After all those years of our words helping them make money, shouldn’t they…
Updated with more comment from an AP spokesperson WASHINGTON — News organizations around the world are facing a dilemma about how to portray cartoons of Muhammad by the satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo after a deadly attack on its offices Wednesday — and some are choosing to respond by censoring or cropping out photos of…
Hours after 12 editors and cartoonists at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo were executed by Islamic extremists, the Financial Times‘s editorial board published a strongly-worded editorial criticizing the magazine for their “editorial foolishness.” “If the magazine stops just short of outright insults, it is nevertheless not the most convincing champion of the principle of…
The Chicago Tribune published an op-ed by the CEO of Caterpillar, a manufacturer of large construction equipment, which advocated for the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline but failed to disclose Caterpillar’s significant financial stake in the pipeline’s construction. The January 7 op-ed in the Tribune by Caterpillar chairman and CEO Doug Oberhelman advocated for…
THE LAZARUS EFFECT Trailer: Olivia Wilde Comes Back From The Dead To Wail On The Living Stop resurrecting dead folks, guys. It never turns out well. “http://www.youtube.com/embed/BCUeFQ1E1xM?rel=0” frameborder= “0” allowfullscreen=””> On the one hand, The Lazarus Effect looks pretty generic. I anticipated most of the beats in the trailer without knowing a thing about it other than…
Photo Credit Joon Mo Kang close shareTools Amid the bacchanal of disruption, let us pause to honor the disrupted. The streets of American cities are haunted by the ghosts of bookstores and record stores, which have been destroyed by the greatest thugs in the history of the culture industry. Writers hover between a decent poverty…
An explosion outside an NAACP office building in Colorado on Tuesday morning that rattled neighbors was caused deliberately, officials say. An improvised explosive device was detonated against the exterior wall of the NAACP building on South El Paso Street in Colorado Springs around 10:45 a.m. Mountain time. No one was injured, said Amy Sanders, a…
Last week, a friend and I got a sneak peek at Google’s new self-driving cars. In addition to spending an afternoon cheating on my Intergalactic SpaceBoat of Light and Wonder, I got to chat with the engineers about the project. 1. Human beings are terrible drivers. We drink. We doze. We text. In the US,…
Jan 5, 2015 Members of the forum on BodyBuilding.com attempted to tackle one of the most confounding problems of our age: How many days are in a week? Much like Bertrand Russell’s quest to cast aside axiomatic approximations and rebuild the foundations of mathematics using air-tight, sound logic, the thread begins with a user appropriately…
I’ve been thinking about my work plan for 2015–things I want to change, things I like, and so on. Part of that process is figuring out what I’m doing wrong and what’s out of my hands. With consulting, what’s out of your hands can be anything from nearly all of it to almost none of…