Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
I was really looking forward to Jonathan Chait’s essay in New York magazine about the inanity of social media outrage culture and the danger of letting angry name-calling and base grievance-mongering settle debates. And Chait, that cuddly old reactionary, hit it out of the park. The reaction on social media was, how do you say, “not at all…
Let me be 100% clear on this: F*ck the ad analytics industry. These companies are nothing but bunch of exploitive bullshit operations with malfunctioning code and an overly large stake in the only operation (IAB) that polices them, to let them get away with it. Why publishers ever agreed to a measure like viewability that,…
article start The online ad world is racing to make viewable ads–ads people can actually see–the standard currency for the industry. And that race is causing major pain for Web publishers while wreaking general havoc in the ad marketplace, say executives from major media companies, digital native sites and top ad agencies. Making viewable ads…
Yo listen up if any of you know what a blizzard is please get in touch as soon as possible (ASAP) because I’m covering the blizzard live on CNN and I’ll be god damned if I know what all this snow is about, really. At least CNN has found something it is worse at than…
AOL is preparing to shut down the video game website Joystiq after over ten years of publication, according to people familiar with the situation. It’s unclear exactly when Joystiq will close, but we’ve heard that this is connected to a larger-scale reorganization planned by AOL, the longrunning media company that has had more than a…
Mayfair Games, the publisher behind Settlers of Catan and Cones of Dunshire, is offering Extra Extra and Flea Market within the next two months. Settlers of Catan is pretty fun, but if you find yourself playing it as much as the Green Bay Packers, it might be time to mix things with another tabletop game….
The Weather Channel dubbed this storm Juno, but we think you can do better. Snowterios Johnson, and 19 Other Better Blizzard Names – WNYC.
For the past six years, Google has been hosting post-State of the Union interviews with the President on YouTube. Some of these used pre-recorded questions, others incorporated Google Hangouts. My brother John even asked a couple of questions during the Hangout they did in 2013. My brother and his wife ask Obama if he could…
A man in his 30s was shot in an apparent suicide attempt outside the News Corp. building at 1211 Sixth Ave. on Jan. 26, sources said. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Trevor Kapp MIDTOWN — A man fatally shot himself outside the News Corp. building Monday, police sources said. Philip Perea, a 41-year-old Texas resident, shot himself…
Wikileaks sent a letter to Google on Jan. 26 asking details on what materials Google handed over to the the FBI after a warrant was issued in March 2012. Wikileaks also wants to know why Google did not inform Wikileaks employees of the request until Dec. 23, 2014. Google released emails of three Wikileaks members to…