Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
This evening, Dayna Evans, a former Gawker writer, published an essay at Matter arguing that Gawker Media has “failed its female employees.” This piece was intended—by Evans, by former Gawker editor Leah Beckmann, and by me—to run on Gawker.com. Late last week, Gawker Media executive editor John Cook decided to kill it, over my objection….
Last November, Rolling Stone published “A Rape on Campus,” a feature article detailing the alleged gang rape of a woman named Jackie at the University of Virginia. The article, written by Sabrina Rubin Erdely, has since been discredited, and its implications have been far-reaching for journalists, sexual assault prevention advocates, survivors and U.Va. students. But…
Share on Facebook (1,237) Tweet (348) Share (98) Pin (2) The technology industry is flush with companies forecasting the rapid growth of cloud computing over the next five to 10 years. Now Google, a relatively small player in the cloud market, has chimed in. Urs Hölze, senior vice president of technical infrastructure, predicted today at the Structure conference that Google’s cloud revenues would surpass its advertising…
With all the controversy surrounding the #BlackLivesMatter movement, it’s rare for a company as massive as Chick-fil-A to take a stand – but they have. A counter movement has come out of the media wreckage called #PoliceLivesMatter that urges citizens to respect police and understand that they are here to serve and protect, and…
The “Jem and the Holograms” comic books have a lot to say about power, what it means to be girly, and what comics can do. Credit Image courtesy IDW Publishing Barrier Status: ‘none’ If you want to see an exuberantly colorful all-ages tribute to girl power—colorful as in candy-floss pink and lime green—where serious ideas…
ike a lot of people, I loved Peter Jackson’s original Lord of the Rings trilogy (although we can all admit Return of the King didn’t quite know when to leave the party). So I was pretty surprised when Jackson took over from Guillermo del Toro to make the Hobbit trilogy, and the first film turned out to be such a boring mess….
I just played the PC version of Star Wars Battlefront online, and it took less than 30 minutes to discover a glaring mistake from EA. In Battlefront, like many online games, players can communicate with each other using text — and every match of Battlefront on PC has a chat room you can’t turn off. It wasn’t long until players turned…
With depressing statistics revealing sexual assault to occur every 107 seconds in the United States, it’s not unusual to carry some form of protection at all times — whether it’s pepper spray, a stun gun or a cute, cat-shaped keychain meant to gouge out the eyes of an attacker. A problem with these self defense…
Dancer Piotr Stanczk in The Winter’s Tale. Photo by Karolina Kuras. The recent opening of The Winter’s Tale at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto was preceded by an announcement that the performance would be dedicated to the victims of the Paris attacks, which had occurred just one night before. The National…
haha anybody hiring? — jason (@nonlinearnotes) November 17, 2015 Welp. — Dennis Mersereau (@wxdam) November 17, 2015 anyone know of any open podcast gigs? — Taylor Berman (@tcberman) November 17, 2015 I’m confident Gawker will have no problem finding a basic-ass shill to fill my shoes. Dime a dozen. #isityou? — Jane Marie (@SeeJaneMarie) November…