Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
There will tweets. There will be liveblogs. There will be thinkpieces. It’s the GOP debate tonight—and everyone on the Internet will have a whole lot to say. One more way to weigh in: The Washington Post is inviting anyone on the Internet to annotate the numbers, the zingers, the truths, and the lies that make their…
TL;DR: Did you know that The Verge delivers you to around 20 companies for advertising & tracking purposes? I didn’t. That might foul up your web experience a little bit. Maybe we should try something different. more I love The Verge, but man… So, I’ve been a big fan of The Verge, almost since day…
There’s something so wonderfully easy about reading this column in a physical newspaper. You turned the page, and here it is, with few annoyances or distractions, in an ultra-high-definition typeface which was custom-designed with pleasurable reading in mind. Or – wait – are you reading this on a phone? Did you follow a link from…
by Frederic Filloux News sites use trackers more indiscriminately than ever. A random sample of twenty digital properties yields stunning results. Last week, we looked at how long web sites take to load, today, we see how messy their user data collection is. When landing on Politico’s home page, your browser loads about 100 pieces…
Tommy Craggs, the executive editor of Gawker Media, and Max Read, the editor-in-chief of Gawker.com, are resigning from the company. In letters sent today, Craggs and Read informed staff members that the managing partnership’s vote to remove a controversial post about the CFO of Condé Nast—a unprecedented act endorsed by zero editorial employees—represented an indefensible…
Meet the Timmy brothers. They wear beanies in the summer, and they have created something important, unique and special. They have created…water. “You talk about wetness, or moistness,” they say, eyes squinty with gravitas. “Mark Twain.” “Hand-crafted.” “Straight razor.” Squint. Hand gesture! A two-beat pause, to let it sink in. In some cases, more squinting….
@ThreeCare Ad campaign mocks transgender ppl. What are Three’s corporate social responsibility policies? #TakeItDownpic.twitter.com/JxgiptZrZP — socmot (@socmot) July 15, 2015 Mobile company Three Ireland recently put out an campaign to advertise their data plan. When many people pointed out that the line “It turned out he was a she” was incredibly transphobic, Three Ireland tweeted the…
On a sunny day last week, Shaun McBride (known on Snapchat as Shonduras) went to the supermarket. His hundreds of thousands of followers were alerted to the expedition through a Snapchat showing McBride holding a hastily drawn watermelon and a box of Cap’n Crunch. “What’s up, Snapchatters? Welcome to grocery shopping with Shonduras!” he said…
GQ.com’s redesigned home page AD UNIT 1 /AD UNIT 1 GQ.com is getting a new look this year, and that includes making sure the site’s ads are ones people will look at. Ahead of a larger redesign that will debut in the fall, GQ is rolling out some tweaks to its site, including a revamped…
It wasn’t actually announced at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), but now it’s everywhere: Apple plans to introduce an ad-blocking feature to the Safari mobile browser for iOS9. HTML MODULE 4010 This is one of those moves that seems like, and perhaps is, a boon for users who are sick of slow-loading Web pages…