Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
John Hermann, who writes about media industry for The New York Times, is one of my favorite writers. His incisive and cutting commentary at his previous home-on-the-web, The Awl, was on my “read first and do everything else later” list. About ten days ago, we had a conversation about the shifting media landscape and the…
Photo Jim Bankoff, chief executive of Vox Media, in the Washington office. The company plans a media brand devoted to digital technology and delivered primarily on Facebook. Credit Daniel Rosenbaum for The New York Times Vox Media, the ambitious online news start-up that runs Vox, a politics site; SB Nation, a network of sports sites;…
The Verge’s new Circuit Breaker AD UNIT 1 /AD UNIT 1 On Monday, Vox Media tech and culture site The Verge announced the introduction of a gadget blog called Circuit Breaker, which the company said will be “dedicated to the resurgence of consumer gadgets in new categories like VR, drones, and the internet of things.”…
Last night, an investment bank and a venture capital firm co-hosted a premiere screening of a farcical premium cable show about tech companies. It sounds like the setup to a joke, but like on the show itself, it’s not clear who gets the last laugh. A few minutes before the crowd of industry insiders gathered…
Quantum computing ace or viral magician?Screenshot via YouTube/video by CBC News Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau conquered the internet last Friday when a video of him answering a reporter’s question about quantum computing went viral. But that victory may have come a little too easily. /.about-the-author The optics could not have been more perfect…
Photo Credit Dadu Shin HERE’S an understatement: It isn’t easy being an Asian-American actor in Hollywood. Despite some progress made on the small screen — thanks, “Fresh Off the Boat”! — a majority of roles that are offered to Asian-Americans are limited to stereotypes that wouldn’t look out of place in an ’80s John Hughes…
The most striking gap in Amazon’s same-day service is in Boston, where three ZIP codes encompassing the primarily black neighborhood of Roxbury are excluded from same-day service, while the neighborhoods that surround it on all sides are eligible. “Being singled out like that and not getting those same services as they do in a 15-minute…
For a country that was partly founded on the idea of opposing “taxation without representation,” it’s always been a tad odd that those who live in our very capital, the District of Columbia, pay taxes while being denied representation. Especially when you consider that there are more people living in D.C. than in either Vermont…
I’m pissed at myself right now. I’m a science writer, and I just turned in one of my biggest articles to date. Over the course of several months I interviewed nearly a dozen researchers and scientists around the globe to get the scoop on the pretty cool uses of a new technology. But as my…
It turns out that spontaneous-seeming conversations between brands on social media are often anything but. When Savannah Peterson, founder of digital strategy group Savvy Millennial, creates a piece of content for her clients, she often sends a “Check it out” message to her friends — who are social media managers at other brands and agencies. Then the squad…