Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
In a world of fake news and alternative facts, chyrons are setting the record straight. The tiny, digital, almost always “Breaking News”-adorned captions superimposed on the bottom of screens during newscasts were historically used to introduce the topic that reporters or political figures are addressing for audiences tuning in after the start of a segment. In other words, they’re usually unimportant…
What else could be solved by twisting open an ice-cold pepsi? Source: The Pepsi Agitation – by Mark Kaufman
It’s probably fair to suggest that most people using the internet want to save money, make healthy choices, and keep abreast of current events. What they don’t want, is to give companies their email addresses to prove it. Much of the online marketing world, however, seeks to change this. Growing numbers of websites, from magazines…
Stella Jiang, a digital ad operations specialist for boutique ad agency Cyverasia, started whitelisting sites for brands at the beginning of this year. Her critical, if unglamorous role in digital advertising: make sure ads are not running alongside pornography or terrorist videos. She typically does so during the first week of a campaign, manually selecting…
President Trump has removed chief White House strategist Stephen Bannon from his role on the National Security Council (NSC), a senior White House official said Wednesday. National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster made the decision, which Trump approved, the official said. Bannon, who led Trump’s campaign in its final months, was elevated in January to a…
featured image =============================== Realigning the news business with the needs of societies overwhelmed by too much information and too many choices is key to rebuilding trust Ray Bussolari/Creative Commons article-img-caption /article-img article-media I think we’re beyond peak fake news pandemic. The early fever of moral panic has abated. Attention is moving from symptoms to cause….
Do you want to play a game? That’s the question posed by a novel piece of ransomware that challenges victims to achieve a high score in a video game instead of demanding cash to unlock files. Yeah. “Minamitsu ‘The Captain’ Murasa encrypted your precious data like documents, musics [sic], pictures, and some kinda project files,” a…
Former Snapchat employee presses to unseal allegedly doctored usage statistics Snap offices Al Seib / Los Angeles Times A former worker is pressing forward with an employment lawsuit against Los Angeles tech company Snap. A former worker is pressing forward with an employment lawsuit against Los Angeles tech company Snap. (Al Seib / Los Angeles…
Selection from “Feast of Centaurs” by Edoardo Ettore Forti, c.1890s This is entirely the fault of the staff writers. Also, the weather. I take no responsibility for the consequences. So they were all a bit loopy from the latest blizzard, and got to talking, as one does, and shortly thereafter, I received the following: Our…
Phil Lord and Chris Miller have found their Han Solo. Alden Ehrenreich is in final negotiations to don the vest and pick up the blaster for the Star Wars standalone, according to sources, which centers on a younger version of the franchise favorite. Following an exhaustive search, where 2,500 young men met for the…