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Why? From its blog post: We are changing our star icon for favorites to a heart and we’ll be calling them likes. We want to make Twitter easier and more rewarding to use, and we know that at times the star could be confusing, especially to newcomers. You might like a lot of things, but…
Layoffs begin at National Geographic .@RupertMurdoch Murdoch’s Choice: Already this morning one top picture editor, one top page designer axed @NatGeo magazine. Thanks Rupert — Donald R. Winslow (@donaldrwinslow) November 3, 2015 Staffers at National Geographic – now controlled by Rupert Murdoch – received this note from their CEO on Monday: Message from Gary Knell…
Short-term rentals are not a significant factor in SF’s housing shortage. So why are people going crazy about this one company? Disclaimer: If you want to contact the author of this piece and accuse me of something, you can tweet at me. I also wrote a convenient FAQ for people who wanna call me “astroturf.” *** Last year,…
When is the best time to send out an email newsletter? Morning and evening are certainly popular choices: Quartz goes for wakeup time (wherever you are in the world), while Vox chooses 8 p.m.. At Nieman Lab, as you surely already know, we send out our weekday newsletter at 3 p.m Eastern. Twelve Thirty Six,…
Hi Marc, how’s your weekend going? Mine has been fantastic so far. The weather in SF is gorgeous and my hike from Ocean Beach to the Presidio was wonderful. On the way home, I picked up some breakfast at Tartine. The line was actually bearable this morning because all the halloween drunks are still in…
Earlier this week, Angela Benton, Founder and CEO of NewMe, published a piece on Inc.com called “Why Facebook’s Latest Shot at Diversity Misses Its Mark.” It analyzes how the tech giant’s new diversity initiative, TechPrep, seems to be a temporary effort and funded by McKinsey & Company, not Facebook itself. The goal of their new…
Do we make both a conceptual and analytical mistake when we refer to student loans as a form of “financial aid”? Should that term be something to be resisted? Demos’ Tamara Draut brought up this point in a conversation recently, and I think it needs to be explored further, because it frames how we speak about student…
CBS Television Studios announced today it will launch a totally new Star Trek television series in January 2017. The new series will blast off with a special preview broadcast on the CBS Television Network. The premiere episode and all subsequent first-run episodes will then be available exclusively in the United States on CBS All Access, the…
After decades of iconic soundtracks and scores, legendary German composer Hans Zimmer has finally announced his first-ever tour. The European trek kicks off next year on April 16th at London’s SSE Arena and continues for 17 more dates before wrapping up in Bulgaria on May 16th at Sofia’s Stadthalle. “Performing a tour like this is…
FOR all the frequent travellers out there just aching for airlines to make the flying experience slightly less unpleasant, there’s one fundamental obstacle: you. The airline industry recently undertook a wide-ranging study of passenger satisfaction, surveying 60,000 passengers on 30 airlines in 39 hub airports around the world, and examining 75 factors that contribute to…