Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Begin: WordPress Article Content Twitter Engineering Manager Leslie Miley, the only black engineer in a leadership position at Twitter, just publicly announced that he has left the company. In his post, he says his reasons for leaving have everything to do with the way Twitter is addressing diversity and inclusion. Though Miley was laid off as…
Why? From its blog post: We are changing our star icon for favorites to a heart and we’ll be calling them likes. We want to make Twitter easier and more rewarding to use, and we know that at times the star could be confusing, especially to newcomers. You might like a lot of things, but…
In light of certain arguments currently taking place on the internet, we would like to issue a gentle reminder of a fact: Twitter is public. The things you write on Twitter are public. They are published on the world wide web. They can be read almost instantly by anyone with an internet connection on…
.entry-header October 27, 2015, 5:36 PM EDT E-mail Tweet Facebook Linkedin Share icons You know that “Other” inbox on Facebook, the one whose messages you never notice and are mostly spam? Well, it’s going away, Facebook said on Tuesday. Instead, Facebook FB is replacing it with what it calls “Message Requests,” which will appear at…
A very nice editor at Huffington Post contacted me yesterday, and asked me if I would be willing to grant permission for the site to republish my post about the seven things I did to reboot my life. Huffington Post has a lot of views, and reaches a pretty big audience, and that post is…
ISIS supporters are urging their fellow extremists to “follow trending hashtags” and “monitor the media for lies” in an extensive, new propaganda manual that provides a rare inside look into the terrorist organization’s social media strategy, Vocativ has learned. While ISIS has been skilled at using social media and forums to distribute their propaganda, the…
With this first post, I am launching an experimental new online digest called Today in #BlackTwitter. The morning report will briefly recap the most talked about news stories, hashtags and issues among the loose network of users collectively known as “Black Twitter”. TIBT aims to encapsulate the discourse on the social media platform that occurred…
Begin: Right Rail Advertisement Container End: Right Rail Advertisement Container Begin: WordPress Article Content Twitter’s epic bust up with developers several years ago was one of the bigger bumps in the company’s rocky history, so now, as the social media company is working to reboot the business under new CEO Jack Dorsey, it kicked off its big developer…
2015 Everett C Parker Lecture: October 20, 2015 This talk was written for the 2015 Everett C Parker Lecture, in honor of his amazing work. Being able to give this lecture is an honor, but it is also deeply humbling in light of his amazing work. Citation: boyd, danah. 2015. “What World Are We Building?”…
“Get insights and perspectives you won’t find anywhere else,” boasts Twitter about its new “Moments” feature, which debuted today. Moments is a collection of around ten curated tweets and multimedia items organized around a theme, a trend, or news. Think a big football game or a presidential debate. Unlike Snapchat’s Discover feature, where users can follow brands and…