Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
The president-elect says that the 16-year-old’s album sales have ‘skyrocketed’ since her inauguration announcement. Have they? On Wednesday (Jan. 4), president-elect Donald Trump posted on Twitter that Jackie Evancho’s album sales have “skyrocketed” since the 16-year-old singer was announced to be performing the national anthem at his presidential inauguration later this month. “Some people just…
GTM DataLayer Umbel End Umbel [if lte IE 9]>< ![endif][if gte IE 10]>< ![endif] Google Tag Manager Container End Google Tag Manager Container Tony Haile’s new project is still in the planning stages. But it’s interesting. Phonograph End Phonograph Source: News Corp, the New York Times and Axel Springer are backing Scroll, a subscription service...
Setting records across the board, Shane, Shep and Corey were joined this year by Jillian who hit the ground running right before the biggest week of the year. The GMG Commerce Team is stacked, and I couldn’t be more excited to see what they accomplish in the new year. In total, the team has published…
Let’s build a simple reverse tracking wall. This is a way to encourage users to install or configure tracking protection, by rewarding them with access to particular web pages. Step zero. Make a page that we want to protect. Done. We were going to do that anyway. Step one. Add the scripts to the page….
The planned Women’s March may be gearing up to be one of the biggest inauguration weekend protests ever, but there’s clearly still some education that needs to happen before January 21. Washington Post’s magazine Express had a bit of a snafu on Thursday, when their cover story about the march showed a ring of what…
Image via Threshold Editions. Last week, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Threshold Editions, the conservative imprint of publishing giant Simon & Schuster, advanced Milo Yiannopoulos $250,000 for his forthcoming book, Dangerous, which will focus, broadly, on the topic of “free speech.” The news was met with sharp rebuke on social media, while headlines and articles…
Last March, Ev Williams described his publishing platform, Medium, as a superior alternative to the rest of the web. “It’s a simplistic view to say go where the people are,” Williams said. “You need to go where the right people are.” Turns out that being among the right people — the publishers, tech executives, and…
Midway through the thoroughly engrossing revival of God of Vengeance, now playing at New York’s La MaMa Theatre though Jan. 22, brothel owner Yankl Tchaptchovitch stands downstage discussing plans for the future with his wife, Soreh, as their teenage daughter, Rivkele, sits behind them, zoning out. In a small but telling sign of how the…
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This Is Us isn’t the only place to get your Mandy Moore fix—apparently, she is also starring in an off-off-off-off Broadway production inside the shower of some dude’s random Queens apartment. And who among us can say we wouldn’t want to wake up every morning, shuffle sleepily into the shower, and be greeted by the…