Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Popular Protest in Palestine: The Uncertain Future of Unarmed Resistance by Marwan Darweish and Andrew Rigby Pluto, 211 pp., $28.00 (paper) Return: A Palestinian Memoir by Ghada Karmi Verso, 319 pp., $26.95 Disturbing the Peace: The Use of Criminal Law to Limit the Actions of Human Rights Defenders in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories…
Subscribe: iTunes | RSS | Jon Steinberg is well-versed in the need for scale for ad-supported digital media, having served as president of BuzzFeed and CEO for North America at Daily Mail. In his new venture, a streaming video service of business news called Cheddar, Steinberg is betting on a different model: licensing fees. Advertisement…
Start Article Post Content Vice Media has come into the month of March looking more like a lamb than the proverbial lion. The irreverent content brand saw its Web traffic suddenly plunge 17.4% compared with the previous month, according to multiplatform figures just released by Comscore for February, registering 49.1 million unique visitors. That’s down…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has asked the Obama administration to shield from public disclosure court records related to the once-secret criminal history of a former Donald Trump business partner. In an unusual order prompted by an unsealing request from The Associated Press, U.S. District Judge Brian M. Cogan said that unless the Justice…
Captain America: Sam Wilson #1, by Nick Spencer and Daniel Acuna, has caused a stir since its release last week. The second launch for former Falcon Sam Wilson in his role as the current thrower of the mighty shield sees him taking on the Sons of the Serpent, who are abducting Mexicans attempting to cross…
On March 21, 2006, a small team at a podcasting startup in San Francisco tested a simple product. It was a texting megaphone: Send an SMS message to the number 40404, and the service would forward it to all your friends. After that, the historical record gets cloudier. The four men with some responsibility for…
Cartoonists: Pitch The Nib The Nib is returning. We’ve teamed up with First Look Media who is building us an all-new website and newsletter, both designed for mobile, to resume daily publishing. I’ve pulled the editorial team back together, with Eleri Harris and Matt Lubchansky working with me toward a summer relaunch. We’re looking to…
Wow: 10 years old, can you believe it. Hell of a decade, hell of a ride. Hey, though: the first ever tweet fucked sucked. It sucked. It was rubbish. It sucked. I mean what is that. Look at the way the word ‘Twitter’ is composed, here: no capital T, no i, no e, in fact…
As any high-profile Twitter user with a Jewish-sounding last name can tell you, the surest way to see anti-Semitism flood your mentions column is to tweet something negative about Donald Trump. My anti-Trump tweets have been met with such terrifying and profound anti-Semitism that I bought a gun earlier this month. Over the coming weeks,…
6.3K Shares Share Tweet Share Share Email By: Claire Bernish Via theantimedia.org United States — Anonymous just pulled a fast one on Donald Trump, his campaign staff, the Secret Service, and the FBI — in one brilliant and telling fell swoop. To support the White…