Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Art by Megan Lara Cynicism is tempting. It hovers constantly at the edge of every hopeful moment, whispering “it will never happen.” It looks intelligent. It looks wry and elegant and worldly. And it has never managed to ensnare Luna Lovegood. Luna has spent years being told to give up. She has spent years being…
The prominence of fake and misleading news has shed light on how programmatic advertising and Facebook increasingly power the web, determining what readers see. Since then, Google and Facebook have vowed to stop serving ads to those shady corners of the internet. But that doesn’t stop bogus stories from making their way onto top-tier publishers, which…
When it comes to measurement errors, the third time is even less charming than the second and first. Last week, Marketing Land reported that Facebook had been miscalculating how often users react to live videos and how often users like and share links posted on Facebook. Because the error is the third of its kind…
You probably don’t trust your laptop’s battery life estimates, and that’s especially true if you happen to own the latest MacBook Pro. It’s supposed to last for up to 10 hours, but the estimated time can vary wildly depending on what’s running at any given moment. Apple has a very simple solution to that: get rid…
Anderson Cooper and Kellyanne Conway from short time ago on CNN … COOPER: Congressman Adam Schiff tweeted today saying “If Trump was as smart as he claims to be he’d understand how little he knows and how much he’ll come to depend on the Intel community. ” Why doesn’t — CONWAY: Wow. People are…
This month, I spent a week surrounded by bright, well-meaning journalism and tech thinkers. Session after session, day after day, conversations kept coming back to these questions: How do we restore trust in media? How do we reach Middle America? What do we do about fake news? Here’s my prediction for 2017. It’s the safest…
close story-meta A filing cabinet broken into in 1972 as part of the Watergate burglary now sits beside a computer server that Russian hackers breached during the 2016 presidential campaign, both now on display in the basement of the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters in Washington. Credit Justin T. Gellerson for The New York Times WASHINGTON…
One of the fundamental ways scientists measure the well-being of a nation is tracking the rate at which its citizens die and how long they can be expected to live. So the news out of the federal government Thursday is disturbing: The overall U.S. death rate has increased for the first time in a decade,…
TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had hoped to present Russian President Vladimir Putin with a “bridegroom” for Yume, the Akita dog Japanese officials gave the Kremlin leader in 2012. But a Japanese lawmaker said Putin turned down the offer of a companion for Yume, whose name means “Dream.” It may not be the last…
Since initially announcing property sets earlier this year, one of the most popular requests has been to expand this functionality to more sections of Search Console. Thanks to your feedback, we’re now expanding property sets to more features! Property sets help to show how your business is seen by Google across separate websites or apps….