Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Generally, a lot people learned how to search on the internet from Ask Jeeves. Just last week we saw a story about a woman that always searched politely: It’s not a stretch to think that many people’s interaction with Google and other search providers are by asking a question, instead of putting in a topic….
Lending a new dimension to the phrase “If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em,” recently fired Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski has joined CNN as a political commentator. Presumably now if he wants to grab a reporter so hard that she’s left with bruises on her arm, his case will be handled by CNN’s…
Updated June 22, 2016 9:44 a.m. ET Facebook Inc. FB -0.22 % has inked contracts with nearly 140 media companies and celebrities to create videos for its nascent live-streaming service, as the social network positions itself to cash in on a lucrative advertising market it has yet to tap—and keep its 1.65 billion monthly users…
Image: Jim Cooke Gawker Media has filed for bankruptcy. The specific circumstances leading to that bankruptcy are unique and bizarre. The fact of a media company declaring itself bankrupt, however, is pretty much a commonplace. Under other conditions—even facing down a different, more conventionally motivated lawsuit—Gawker’s bankruptcy process might seem somewhat straightforward. Obviously the lawsuits…
Begin: WordPress Article Content The best satire is indistinguishable from the subject matter it addresses. And sometimes the subject matter is indistinguishable from satire. For the foreseeable future, the absurd rebranding of tronc and this astonishing video will exemplify the latter. I’m still not entirely sure this isn’t some absolutely brilliant hoax. If it is,…
Earlier this month, the artist now formerly known as the Tribune Publishing Company rebranded itself as “tronc.” While the makeover entertained Twitter for a solid two hours (“tronc if you’re horny”), it also distracted from the fact that Tronc’s new strategy — which included moving its stock exchange listing to Nasdaq and launching troncX, a…
(iStock) On June 4, the satirical news site the Science Post published a block of “lorem ipsum” text under a frightening headline: “Study: 70% of Facebook users only read the headline of science stories before commenting.” Nearly 46,000 people shared the post, some of them quite earnestly — an inadvertent example, perhaps, of life imitating comedy….
Image by János Csongor Kerekes (Flickr Creative Commons), cropped from original When Gawker Media was sentenced to pay Hulk Hogan $140 million in damages for publishing his sex tape, it was seen as a victory over snarky New York media. Now, with the revelation that the lawsuit was secretly bankrolled by Silicon Valley Billionaire Peter…
Think about where you go to find news. Podcasts? WNYC? The New York Times? Facebook? Twitter? Newsletters? Do you want us to stop asking questions? Welcome to the Attention Economy. There is fierce competition for your eyes and ears — (thank you for choosing correctly). Media companies know that a good way to find an audience is to write and speak…