Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
A focus still on the desktop Though mobile adblockers may well prove to be a significant issue for news organizations in months or years to come, the outlets we spoke with are still focused primarily on desktop. They’re examining their options to circumvent adblockers, discourage readers from using them, or even prevent users from seeing…
UK-based activist group Brandalism has peppered the streets of Paris with 600 fake outdoor ads meant to expose the hypocrisy of COP21 Climate Conference corporate sponsors. The fake, unauthorized outdoor ads were strategically placed around Paris this past weekend, and were made to look nearly identical to the originals. The ads were prepared by an…
The people having the most success destroying the Wall Street elite these days are not bomb-throwing anarchists. They are buttoned-up investment types who are just less greedy. Traditionally, the Wall Street investment industry has grown rich by skimming off a portion of the astronomical amount of money that passes through its hands. In exchange for…
The decision by Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, to gradually give away 99 percent of their Facebook fortune is big news not just for the huge sum involved—about $46 billion—but for how the couple chose to achieve their philanthropic goal. Rather than set up a private foundation or charitable trust as Bill and Melinda Gates did, the Chan…
Nearly 7,000 Peace Corps currently serve in about 65 countries. Roughly one in five of them is sexually assaulted during that service, according to the results of a recent anonymous Peace Corps safety questionnaire, obtained exclusively by CBS News. The report also shows that nearly half don’t report the assaults. Pressure to change a culture…
Duration matters: The longer someone was out of work, the more likely it is that they’ve quit looking. Of the total, 55 percent who were unemployed for more than two years fell into the category; 32 percent of those idle for 13 to 24 months and 34 percent out for seven to 12 months had…
*** CONTENT STARTS HERE *** START END LEDE W/TEXT UNDER FULL-WIDTH IMG The CEO Paying Everyone $70,000 Salaries Has Something to Hide Inside the viral story of Gravity CEO Dan Price. By Karen Weise | December 1, 2015 Photographs by Nathanael Turner From BODY COPY CENTERED It seemed too good to be true. On April 13,…
As the old saying kind of goes, reports of the impending demise of CEO Marissa Mayer at Yahoo are greatly exaggerated. And so are rumors that the board of the Silicon Valley Internet giant is poised to sell off the entire core business. Consider the Wall Street Journal’s reporting last night that there is some…
MANHATTAN — Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to change some of the city’s existing zoning regulations as part of his 10-year plan to create 80,000 new affordable units of housing and preserve another 120,000. The 526-page plan has implications for every neighborhood in New York City. Department of City Planning officials have visited community boards…
The fate of troubled Internet portal Yahoo Inc. may be decided in a marathon series of board meetings this week. Yahoo’s board plans to weigh a potential sale of the company’s core business during a series of meetings beginning Wednesday and continuing through Friday, people familiar with the matter said. The board is expected to…