Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
It’s time to migrate those old emails. Yahoo — that crumbling pillar of the Internet — has been bought by Verizon, and the future of the brand is up in the air. Yahoo kept trying to reinvent itself, offering new services and buying up other companies in a failing effort to stay fresh. But when…
As a critical reader, it is important to analyze every word in a slogan, such as Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again.” This essay riffs off that last word: Again. That adverb suggests there was a time — somewhere in the past — when America was really great. So was America great in the 1820s,…
It may not be a post-RNC bounce, but political analyst and statistician Nate Silver’s latest forecast of the presidential election shows Donald Trump leading Hillary Clinton with a shocking 15 percentage point-greater chance of winning if the general election were held today. After a parade of D-list celebrities and conservative icons yelled that the nation…
via Screenshot A recent presidential poll done on Bravo-TV’s “Watch What Happens Live” found that viewers of the show strongly prefer Donald Trump to Hillary Clinton. Viewers of “Watch What Happens Live,” hosted by Andy Cohen, were encouraged to text in their president choice. The results of the survey found that 65 percent respondents favored…
by Frederic Filloux No one seems happy with Facebook’s recent algorithm change. The anger is growing among those who put too much faith in the giant social network’s ability to monetize news content. June 29 2016 should have been a bad day for several news publishers’ stocks. That day, Facebook announced a significant change in…
Watch Usher, Cyndi Lauper, Sheryl Crow & Others Tell Politicians ‘Don’t Use Our Song’ 7/25/2016 by Gil Kaufman Gil Kaufman The list of artists demanding that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stop using their songs during the Republican National Convention grew longer and longer as last week’s gathering in Cleveland went on. From the Rolling Stones…
Evidence suggests that a Russian intelligence group was the source of the most recent Wikileaks intel dump, which was aimed to influence the U.S. election. Close your eyes and imagine that a hacking group backed by Russian President Vladimir Putin broke into the email system of a major U.S. political party. The group stole thousands…
PHILADELPHIA — The Democratic National Committee chairwoman resigned under fire Sunday, on the eve of a national convention meant to project competence and unity in contrast to the turbulence of the Republicans’ gathering last week. The disarray threatened to upend Hillary Clinton’s plan to paint the Democrats as the party best prepared to lead a…
Nintendo Co. shares plunged by the most since 1990 after the company said late Friday that the financial benefits from the worldwide hit Pokemon Go will be limited. The stock sank 18 percent to 23,220 yen at the close in Tokyo, the maximum one-day move allowed by the exchange, wiping out 708 billion yen ($6.7…
In a stark illustration of the potential for augmented reality to shape how we experience the world, Belt Magazine reports that the gazebo where 12 year old Tamir Rice was shot by police in 2014 is now a “Pokéstop” in Pokémon Go. And the text describing the site, known as the Cudell Gazebo, contradicts what…