Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
article start Traditional and online publishers are struggling to cash in on their surging mobile traffic, raising questions about their future growth as consumers increasingly turn to smartphones and tablets for media. News and information outlets ranging from the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal to Business Insider and About.com all can point…
Europe’s “Right to be forgotten” laws have come to an apex of dumb: The UK’s Information Commissioner’s office has ordered Google to remove links to stories about Google removing links to stories. My brain hurts. Google has 33 days to take down links to stories about a previous “Right to be forgotten” order. Last year,…
Legions of programmers now stream their work on Livecoding.tv, a site that turns their lonely labor into something more like a party. The camera does not love computer programming. OK, it’s worse: The camera runs screaming in horror from anything resembling programming. Writing code might be the single least cinematic pursuit humankind has yet devised….
One of the great promises of new media has been that the fresh, young, talented insurgents creating the newsrooms of tomorrow take racial and gender diversity seriously. The heads of digital media say so themselves, aiming to remake an industry traditionally dominated by white males and build staffs that better reflect the world they cover….
Award-winning cartoonist and journalist Ted Rall has accused the Los Angeles Times of wrongly casting doubt on his professional integrity, retracting one of his columns and ending his freelance work with the paper in order to curry favor with the Los Angeles police department. The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has called for an investigation…
The Verge’s Disney hub is your place for Disney news. Showing stories in chronological order from 2015 to 2040. Update (March 18th, 2028): Missing archival posts addressed. December 28th, 2015 The Verge promotes full-time editor to Disney beat My name is Chris Plante, and I’m The Verge’s first Senior Disney Editor. Disney has become a…
Now that the first Republican debate is more than a week behind us, we should pause for a moment’s reflection on what we’ve learned about the party, its candidates and its electorate. If taken seriously, this question suggests others about the state of our national political media. None of the answers are very edifying, much less…
More than fifteen years ago, in response to decreasing ad rates and banner blindness, web advertisers and publishers adopted pop-up ads. People hated pop-up ads. We tolerated in-page banners as an acceptable cost of browsing free websites, but pop-ups were over the line: they were too annoying and intrusive. Many website publishers claimed helplessness in…
There’s been a lot of talk lately — and more than a little hand-wringing — about the rise of online ad blocking. In part, that’s because of a recent study that shows what appears to be a dramatic increase in the use of ad-blocking software. It might also have something to do with the news…
This story first appeared in the Aug. 21 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe. The Internet is a swirling death trap of dubious gossip, outraged tweet-to-tweet combat and a million identical pieces of over-processed, hormone-injected “news content” written for fourth-graders. There’s a reason for that. It’s called…