Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
On Wednesday, Medium co-founder Evan Williams announced in a blog post that the publishing platform would abandon its strategy to sell native advertising against premium publishers’ content and instead work on finding a new business model for online publishing. “We had started scaling up the teams to sell and support products that were, at best,…
Google is now showing AMP results in Google Image Search. Will Barnes notified me of this on Twitter and I was able to replicate it. Here is a screen shot showing the AMP logo in the image search results and if you click on the result title, it takes you to the AMP version of…
A woman using her phone on a ferry in Xiamen, Fujian Province. Apple removed mobile news apps created by The New York Times from its app store in China late last month. Credit European Pressphoto Agency Apple, complying with what it said was a request from Chinese authorities, removed news apps created by The New…
We’ve decided to make some major changes at Medium. I’ll start with the hard part: As of today, we are reducing our team by about one third — eliminating 50 jobs, mostly in sales, support, and other business functions. We are also changing our business model to more directly drive the mission we set out on originally. Obviously, this…
The Megyn Show Megyn Kelly‘s last day on Fox News will be this Friday. She is joining NBC News in a bold, risky move, and the media world is abuzz about it. Ever since 12:30 p.m. ETDylan Byers and I have been on the phone with sources, gathering intel, and this special edition of the newsletter contains 1) everything we know…
An Allstate ad on Nowtheendbegins.com, next to an article claiming that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting did not happen. By emphasizing technology and data in placing online ads, marketers risk bankrolling sites that are toxic to society Advertising on the internet has never been easier. Data and automation increasingly allow companies large and small…
Last year, instant messages from Gawker staffers were cited as evidence in the defamation lawsuit filed by professional wrestler Hulk Hogan. What they revealed wasn’t pretty: tasteless jokes about the former pro-wrestler’s sexual trysts and his genitals, snide remarks that weren’t meant for publication. The transcripts quickly became a cautionary tale for journalists who might…
From BuzzFeed to Target, six brands had some embarrassing slipups. In April, when Facebook rolled out livestreaming to the public, brands were eager to try it out, and many did so in inventive ways. BuzzFeed showed us how to blow up a watermelon, NASA displayed its International Space Station, McDonald’s painted a hamburger in a…
Adblockalypse! We created Recurrency to help creators of all kinds — podcasters, artists, authors, musicians — get paid to do what they love and there is no bigger threat to those content creators today than ad blocking. What is the Adblockalypse? “Adblockalypse” is the end of days for publishers and advertisers. Once it arrives, content creators on…
Anxious about the widespread consumption and spread of propaganda and fake news during this year’s election cycle, many progressives are calling for an increased commitment to media literacy programs. Others are clamoring for solutions that focus on expert fact-checking and labeling. Both of these approaches are likely to fail — not because they are bad ideas,…