Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
I’m not a traditionalist. But let’s face it — digital didn’t revolutionize ads the way we all expected. At the onset of the digital age, industry thinking was that banners would create a totally transactional marketplace in which consumers would click on an ad and watch a brand video, and even shop for products. Advertising…
The queen, in middle-fingers-up mode, makes her most powerful, ambitious statement yet What does it mean for Beyoncé to drop a new surprise album on the world within days of a giant like Prince leaving us? It’s a welcome reminder that giants still walk among us. Lemonade is an entire album of emotional discord and marital meltdown,…
The trailer for the animated film Batman: The Killing Joke, featuring the voice acting talents of Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill, is finally here. The Killing Joke is one of the most iconic stories in Batman canon, and for many years fans assumed it would never get a screen adaptation. But thanks to the growing popularity of…
paging_filter Late on Tuesday night, Esquire.com removed a satirical article written by Rurik Bradbury that it had published online earlier in the day. The faux op-ed — an archived version of which can be read here — was written in the voice of “Prof Jeff Jarvis,” a satirical Twitter character created by Bradbury who parodies…
2. What Is Talkshow? Talkshow is a new messaging app where all the conversations are public. The company says Talkshow “is texting in public,” but it really feels much more like a public-facing Slack room — an ongoing conversation between multiple people, that anyone can see. ID: 8532033 3. Wait. Isn’t that Twitter? No. Here’s…
Hide captionBaby spotted eagles open wide for the camera in the Polessye State Radioecological Reserve in Belarus. END CLASS=”IMAGECAPTION” END CLASS=”HSLIDE” END CLASS=”AUX” END CLASS=”HSLIDEWRAP” Valeriy Yurko/Polessye State Radioecological Reserve END CLASS=”PHOTOCREDIT” Hide captionA herd of ponies in the brush. Researchers studying large mammals in the area around Chernobyl found robust population numbers. END CLASS=”IMAGECAPTION”…
REUTERS/Larry DowningCarriers and ISPs have approached Ghostery to help them tackle the effect of online ads on their networks.Earlier this month, hidden within a company blog post about the FCC’s proposed new privacy rules for broadband providers, anti-ad tracker service Ghostery revealed it is “in discussions with leading ISPs (internet service providers) and mobile carriers”…
Millions of drivers use Waze, a Google-owned navigation app, to find the best, fastest route from point A to point B. And according to a new study, all of those people run the risk of having their movements tracked by hackers. Researchers at the University of California-Santa Barbara recently discovered a Waze vulnerability that allowed…
Vice’s UK arm has rejected a push for union recognition by a group of staff, bucking a growing trend that has seen unionisation at digital media businesses including the outlet’s main base in the US. At a meeting held in London on Tuesday, Vice UK staff were told that the National Union of Journalists would…
As social media becomes more prominent, traditional journalism is being increasingly driven by democratized information. Source: Bleeding Cool According to a report from Bleeding Cool, DC Comics is investigating reports of sexual harassment by a different DC editor than Eddie Berganza. The investigation is in response to an account posted on Tumblr by artist Katie…