Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
/.sidebar WASHINGTON — NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams admitted Wednesday he was not aboard a helicopter hit and forced down by RPG fire during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, a false claim that has been repeated by the network for years. Williams himself repeated the claim Friday during NBC’s coverage of a public…
blocks/ad-gpt-main / blocks/ad-gpt-main I’m thrilled to share a brand new PopularMechanics.com. Today’s massive overhaul is a huge leap forward for the site, which our tireless development team has been working on for months. We’ve got a fantastic new set of tools that will help us both cover breaking news and tell in-depth stories. It’s now a far more dynamic site…
If you came to this post from my Facebook you’ve been participating in a little not-so-scientific experiment on my behalf. For most of the month of January almost all of my Facebook shares have passed through a new site I set up with WordPress and PressForward. On Chronoto.pe I archive a copy of everything I’ve read…
Joystiq will not grow to be much older than ten years. That’s a massive expenditure of time, if only to receive an unfinished creation in return. I, and my best friends in the world, leave Joystiq unfinished. We leave it as it was always going to be. How can you envision an end when your…
Andrew Sullivan is, as undoubtedly you’ve heard, leaving his eponymous blog: I am saturated in digital life and I want to return to the actual world again. I’m a human being before I am a writer; and a writer before I am a blogger, and although it’s been a joy and a privilege to have…
(Bloomberg) — Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox Inc. and News Corp. said the U.S. Justice Department won’t prosecute either company after an investigation into voicemail hacking and payments to public officials in the U.K. The companies announced the decision in separate regulatory filings on Monday. “We are grateful that this matter has been concluded and…
It comes as no surprise that one of our most popular categories of video continues to be weather. Extraordinary weather events can affect us all, and Storyful is all about people. With heavy snowfall in the US and temperatures plunging in Europe, we thought it a perfect time to explore the phenomenon of winter viral…
A couple of months ago, I pitched a feature on the music industry that I was totally qualified to write. But the editor questioned my experience: What exactly had I published about the music industry? By my count, over two thousand blogposts since 2009. But the links to my author pages bounced back because the…
Tom Wheeler was feeling the heat. It was August and the head of the Federal Communications Commission was sitting on the deck of his family’s vacation home on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Sweat dripped onto the paperwork before him. For months, the tall, bespectacled Wheeler had been consumed by an arcane but important debate over how…
We plugged our Twitter account, @voxdotcom, into the poetry-generating website Poetweet and were so tickled with the results that we tried it on a bunch of other handles, too. Here is the outcome: Vox The New York Times BuzzFeed VICE ClickHole The Verge CNN The New Republic Fox News MSNBC SB Nation Want to turn your…