Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
When Daniel Joseph, a York University doctoral student studying labor and technology, found out about Coca-Cola’s GIF the Feeling promotion, he knew exactly what he wanted to make with it: a Coke-branded critique of capitalism. An accessory for Coke’s newly launched “Taste the Feeling” global ad campaign, GIF the Feeling is a website that allows…
The economics of a web-based book: year oneAt the end of July 2014, this book completed its first year online. When it launched, I described it as “partly an experiment in taking the web seriously as a book-publishing medium.” In the interests of science, a few words about how that experiment is going. Nothing here…
What I Give Twitter I am Twitter user #615,723, and have been a member for nine years as of January 8th. In that time I have given Twitter 34,421 tweets. I have received 9,693 followers. I follow 918 people as a broad indicator of my interests. I am on 559 lists. I read Twitter as…
Chicago (AFP) – A white police officer plans to sue the estate of a black teenager he shot dead because he was traumatized by the fact that he accidentally killed the teen’s neighbor in the incident, his lawyer said. Related Stories Chicago cop to sue family of black teen he killed AFP Chicago announces new police…
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Online comments as we know them are dead. Or such, anyway, is the view of Andrew Losowsky – a journalist who, as project lead on the Coral Project, is helping to shape the future of reader interaction. Losowsky – whose venture is a collaboration between the Washington Post, the New York Times and Mozilla –…
A Kentucky teen who died at a juvenile detention center this month was restrained by guards who used a martial arts move and then failed to check on her throughout the night, a new report finds. Police initially said that Gynnya McMillen, 16, died in her sleep at Lincoln Village Juvenile Detention Center in Elizabethtown on…
The Good Parts vs all of JavaScript The Top 10 Things Wrong with JavaScript JavaScript has a reputation for being one of the worst programming languages in existence, and for good reasons! JavaScript is easy to learn and easy to use, except when it’s not. There are many “gotchas” that can trip you up. Below,…
If you disrespect Bernie Sanders, you’re going to get a visit from his social media goons. They are passionate about campaign finance reform, staying active in one’s 70s, and being very, very manly. They are the Berniebros. The Atlantic’s Robinson Meyer first coined the phrase in October, describing your typical Berniebro as someone who is…
Today’s front page of the day comes from Canada’s Guelph Mercury, which published a print edition for the last time on Friday. The 149-year-old paper’s final front led with -30-, which the newspaper explained was a print tradition. “The tradition faded as computers replaced typewriters in newsrooms. But, for anyone who cares about journalism, -30-…