Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Anyone familiar with Team Pebble knows full well: keeping quiet isn’t our style. We love sharing Pebble’s story with you—whether it’s a new product, fresh feature, or simply staying in touch online and in person. Aside from announcing Pebble’s 4.3 software updates, our silence over the past month was deafening and out-of-character—we’re sorry for that….
The Year of Mercy is almost at an end (2016 was the Year of mercy?!), having commenced on December 8, 2015. During this magical year, Pope Francis imbued Catholic priests with the power to “absolve” anyone involved in an abortion, so they could still get into heaven and also the church itself for when the…
Donald Trump schlepped across town on Tuesday to meet with the publisher of The New York Times and some editors, columnists and reporters at the paper. As The Times reported, Trump actually seemed to soften some of his positions: He seemed to indicate that he wouldn’t seek to prosecute Hillary Clinton. But he should never…
“The whole idea from the start was to build a site that could kind of infiltrate the echo chambers of the alt-right.” “The whole idea from the start was to build a site that could kind of infiltrate the echo chambers of the alt-right.” A lot of fake and misleading news stories were shared across…
The quest for the caliphate will endure—with or without ISIS. Last May, Abu Mohammad al-Adnani, the second most powerful leader in the Islamic State, hinted that the caliphate was crumbling. “Whoever thinks that we fight to protect some land or some authority, or that victory is measured thereby, has strayed far from the truth,” he…
Laura June Dec—02—2016 04:12AM EST Of the fringe groups given encouragement with the election of fringe man Donald Trump to the highest office in the land (US), possibly none are more sad or more inherently-potentially-theoretically dangerous than the anti-vaxxers: those opposed to vaccines because they “don’t work,” they “cause autism,” or they’re “part of a…
Adrianne Jeffries Nov—26—2016 10:38PM EST In the movie Rushmore, the teacher Miss Cross asks, “nihilo sanctum estne?” The question is a mistranslation, but it’s supposed to mean is nothing sacred? That’s how I felt reading Jia Tolentino’s article about how a company called Emogi plans to invade our text messages with advertising. Travis Montaque, Emogi’s…
If you’re considering picking up Anna Kendrick’s memoir, Scrappy Little Nobody, which was released on November 15, and you are not one who loves precious self-deprecation, then let me save you some time: Don’t do it. But if you truly must, at least skip the hardback and skim it on your Kindle to spare yourself…
“The ambition of having 10 million digital subscribers is possible for us,” New York Times CEO Mark Thompson said Monday afternoon at the annual UBS Global Media Conference in New York City. While that’s still a long way away — the Times had about 1.6 million digital subscribers as of September, counting its crosswords product…
As print revenue continues to shrink, legacy publishers are facing the question (again) of how to deploy their (also shrinking) staffs. In the early days of the web, print publishers had digital operations that were separate from their print teams, and often considered second-class; understandable, considering most of their money was and is still being…