Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Donald Trump in August. Credit: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg AD UNIT 1 /AD UNIT 1 CNN is asking 40 times its normal rate for commercial time in the next Republican debate. The cable news network is charging as much as $200,000 for a 30-second spot in the prime-time brawl taking place on Sept. 16, according to a…
When Google announced its list of 34 prospective new Google Fiber cities last Wednesday, some were baffled that the company had overlooked San Francisco. This is, after all, supposed to be America’s technopolis: its capital of the future. And yet, in comparison to some other cities in the country — and the world — San…
CM: I’m thinking about the evolution of the product, and there were a few years where you laid low. LF: The ’90s into early 2000s we were a pretty big company. Then I went through a divorce. CM: That type of situation helps sometimes. LF: Right, because of the demand. CM: You became something that…
Adblockers and the fracking of data An inconvenient truth about digital content I’ve decided to test a Safari Adblocker extension in private beta directly with the Princeton student who’s developing it. I’m doing it for science and sharing my findings to encourage more public discourse about why the trust between content consumers and producers is…
Many of you might have already seen the new Google identity. I’m not surprised that the brand is evolving its look in wake of the current company restructuring and formation of Alphabet. Change is oftentimes necessary and with a brand like Google that has so much reach and weight in this world, the changes are…
Had great tweetchat with @chronotope today about adblocking and state of adtech, digital advertising and publishing with a cameo by @mediatwit. Sequence edited for readability. Today in #Adblocking Tweetchats · Storify.
By Jean-Louis Gassée Ad blocking started as an initiative by independent developers who wanted to improve our browsing experience. Now that at least one company, Apple, has made Content Blocking “official”, ad-supported publishing business models are in trouble. Back in the days when we bought a newspaper or magazine at the newsstand, we thought we…
Some Photoshop concepts, no matter how ill-conceived, must be seen to the bitter end Things are reaching a boiling point in the sleepy crime-riddled hamlet of The Hamptons, USA. There have been Uber shortages, LIRR restriction, helicopter bans, and fornicating yupster Bros aplenty. Dr. NY Times is here to diagnose the problems, which they…
‘Bring a map of New Orleans.’’ That was all that Alden J. McDonald Jr., president and chief executive of Liberty Bank and Trust Company, said when I first asked to meet him. It was the summer of 2005, less than two weeks after the city’s flood-protection system failed to keep out the storm surge created…
In October 2011, I was rounding out a year and a half of service in a Whole Foods bakery when I finally stopped to read the text that was on the side of our pie boxes. This was a revelatory moment in my relationship with the company, which wants its employees not just to drink…