Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Our frontline journalism could use a lot of help. Oh see, you f*cked it, you f*cked it all up, for about five minutes of history we were on course to courageously advance the world of journalism and then you slid your stupid face in front of the moment and just ruined everything. […] Our brave…
If you’re looking for advice about getting pitches accepted, there’s no better person to ask than the editor of the publication you want to write for. Sure, there are pitch templates. And other writers may be able to offer some counsel, but even they won’t know all the nuances of what a particular pub wants…
How I learned how to record a Periscope live stream, part 1. Live streaming is making a comeback even though it’s technically been around for some time(UStream, Spreecast, Livestream.com etc). The capability these days has grown from desktop to mobile thanks to two new apps that are making waves across social media: Periscope and Meerkat….
In 2003, a multifaceted lifestyle crisis that I’d been cultivating for two years went supernova. During a Top 5 of All-Time hangover, I hatched swift and irreversible plans to quit my nine-year career with the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, sell my house, car and all my belongings, and flee the country. I told my…
The Associated Press Stylebook announced some changes last week at the annual conference of the American Copy Editors Society. (Full disclosure: This columnist, as president of the ACES Education Fund, is a member of the ACES board.) While none of the changes are as momentous as last year’s “over/more than” proclamation, they reflected an increased…
About three days after it received a lavish new funding round, Meerkat died an ugly and embarrassing death. It is hard to decide whether the Great Meerkat Debacle that has unfolded over the past week is a tragedy or a comedy — probably a bit of both. The mobile streaming app that had whipped U.S….
What began around 10 p.m. Eastern Wednesday was still underway on Monday morning, according to GitHub. GitHub is still battling what it says is the largest DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack in the service’s history. What began around 10 p.m. Eastern Wednesday was still underway on Monday morning, according to GitHub’s Twitter feed. The…
The Ellen Pao-Kleiner Perkins trial, which went to jury deliberations yesterday, is a milestone case and it may well be a milestone verdict. Not just because $160 million in possible compensatory and punitive damages is an awful lot of money, but also because this is the highest-profile example yet of Silicon Valley’s boys club on…
At the American Copy Editors Society’s annual meeting in Pittsburgh today, updates to and new entries in the 2015 Associated Press Stylebook are being revealed. This news will not affect you at all. But I think it’s interesting, so go to hell. Tons of newspapers, magazines, and websites rely on the 62-year-old AP Stylebook. It’s…
Facebook, a dull and endlessly scrolling record of personal propaganda and content headlined in two or more sentences, isn’t satisfied with the way its 1.4 billion users (most non-sentient) consume the news. According to theNew York Times, it takes an epic eight secondsfor the average Joe Facebook User to load an outside news link, clicked…