Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Last September, I went to Chicago for a conference. On the third day of the conference, I slipped away to my friend Max’s apartment on a mission. The mission was to gather together a lot of very smart people who don’t work in news — and ask them to design a new news homepage. By news homepage,…
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The best headline templates for maximizing readership can quickly become ubiquitous, over-familiar, and cloying to their own writers. The Atlantic It is my job to read the Internet, and that makes me weird. Most people are not paid to follow, study, and theorize about web journalism like an anthropologist studying gorilla polygyny, but I am….
Aram Zucker-Scharff, a content strategist with CFO Publishing, has a new piece about the results of a casual independent experiment he conducted on Facebook’s News Feed. His experiment — which he himself calls “not-so-scientific” — only lasted two weeks, and, as he notes, the analytics data he’s working with is less than perfectly accurate. But it might still…
I’ve been archiving every single article I’ve read on the internet for a full month now. This is letting me find out all sorts of cool things about how the internet and the places I read and share work. It’s also letting me archive everything I read. Along with those archives PressForward grabs the featured…
I was talking to someone who works at one of those half-dozen or so apps that we tend to associate with teenagers: the ones that were built around some novel concept that distracted everyone for a few years while they settled into their roles as slightly different ways to text. He mentioned something, offhand, while…
2. NBC News anchor Brian Williams admitted Wednesday to having made up a story about being in a helicopter that was shot down in Iraq. Turns out Williams wasn’t actually in the helicopter at all, and he said that after a decade of recounting the story, he actually “misremembered” what happened. That, in turn, prompted…
Ever seen a news story from a few years back — or maybe even just a few weeks back — and gotten frustrated when an old link doesn’t work any more? It’s a problem for anyone who publishes on the web, but particularly for news organizations — both because that network of links is an…
“Make it happy!” Coca-Cola’s new marketing campaign exhorts. The campaign, introduced during a Super Bowl commercial, is accompanied by a stunt through which Twitter users reply to negative tweets with the hashtag “#MakeItHappy”; Coca-Cola then transforms those tweets into cute ASCII art. “We turned the hate you found into something happy,” @CocaCola chirps. The Twitter…