Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
WIRED Ones: I need a few minutes of your attention to talk about how we treat the workspace we’ll fully occupy on Jan. 5. #newwiredoffice A photo posted by Scott Dadich (@sdadich) on Jan 5, 2015 at 9:56am PST We made a big investment in the construction and design of the new floor — more…
For the past two months, The New York Times has been running a very useful addition to its popular travel column “36 Hours,” a weekly series that informs readers how to spend a day and a half in a given city. The new feature, titled “Plan Your Next Adventure,” placed New York Times-recommended attractions on an interactive Google Map,…
As the ongoing Podcast Renaissance invigorates audio storytelling—you may have heard about a little program called Serial—social news site Reddit is grabbing a piece of the action to better share its most popular stories with a mobile audience. Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian recently announced a new endeavor: Upvoted, the official Reddit podcast that digs deeper…
Readers responded passionately, and in large numbers, to my post last week about The Times’s decision not to publish the now-famous Charlie Hebdo cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. (In fact, I’ve never had more comments on a post or column.) A vast majority of readers were critical of The Times’s decision, feeling strongly that both…
Many of the arrests are believed to stem from comments made on Facebook, Twitter and social media as the world reacted to the atrocities. They are part of a broader French crackdown on perceived hate speech, extremism and anti-Semitism amid a government push for tougher anti-terrorism measures. Anti-semitic French comedian Dieudonné was among those detained…
Forty-eight hours after hosting a massive march under the banner of free expression, France opened a criminal investigation of a controversial French comedian for a Facebook post he wrote about the Charlie Hebdo attack, and then this morning, arrested him for that post on charges of “defending terrorism.” The comedian, Dieudonné (above), previously sought elective office in…
Why 2014 Was Our Favorite Year Yet 13:52:52, 1/13/2015 Why 2014 Was Our Favorite Year Yet.
If she is attractive; tell your readers exactly how attractive, within the first paragraph. Speculate on whether she is attracted to you. If she has become successful and not moved to a Western country; ask why, speculate on if she realizes how attractive she is: could this be the reason why she hasn’t moved? If…
The story of NPR’s new show Invisibilia starts with a butcher knife. Alix Spiegel and Lulu Miller were taking a walk during some downtime at the Third Coast Conference and, as sometimes is the case during meandering walks at audio storytelling confabs, the conversation turned to psychology and how people interpret their thoughts. It was…
One point that, I hope, runs through a lot of my work is the use and abuse of dead moral questions. In that, I mean the tendency for political types to bring a lot of rhetorical and mental weight to bear on questions that are not politically live, in any meaningful sense. This focus is…