Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
t’s early summer, and I’m in Dupont Circle. Something’s off. People, I notice, seem to be suddenly tweeting much less lately. But I’ve got a book to finish, so I file the observation away to carefully inspect later. It’s late summer, and I’m standing in Madison Square, frowning. Something’s wrong. Twitter feels like a deserted…
Facebook blocked the phrase “everyone will know” for more than a day, but users are now once again able to post the seemingly innocuous three words. “This was a mistake with our spam filter and our engineers have resolved the issue,” Melanie Ensign of Facebook security communications told The Huffington Post. HuffPost also independently confirmed that the phrase…
Last November, I befriended four male techies I met at a club in San Francisco. Call it youth, call it impulsivity – the night was young and they seemed friendly enough. Back at the SOMA apartment we would crash at, we spoke about everything from dubstep to their internships (Firefox, Apple, Facebook, HP) and my…
Begin: WordPress Article Content Today, Twitter announced an 8% layoff, and Wall Street is responding to the news. Its stock is up over 5%, signaling that investors also felt that it was time for the social networking company to slim down. Former members of the flock who were affected are starting to share their stories…
NG Converter v4.0.2.6 Exhibit 99.1 From: Jack Dorsey To: All Employees Date: October 13, 2015 Subject: A more focused Twitter Team, We are moving forward with a restructuring of our workforce so we can put our company on a stronger path to grow. Emails like this are usually riddled with corporate speak so I’m going…
Exactly one year ago*, Facebook’s Chief Product Officer Chris Cox publicly apologized for the company’s discriminatory “real names” policy. I should know: not only was I personally mentioned in Cox’s note, but I was one of the drag queens — along with a broader coalition of artists and activists representing queer and transgender people, survivors of domestic…
In the hours between the shooting spree at Umpqua Community College and the moment news networks were able to name Chris Harper Mercer as the alleged gunman, crowds on social media clamored for a name to fill the informational void. 4chan gave them two, both of whom turned out to be alive, and neither of…
Claim: Posting a legal notice on your Facebook wall will protect your copyright and privacy rights. FALSE Example: [Collected via e-mail, January 2015] [Collected via Facebook, May 2012]For those of you that do not understand this posting, Facebook is now a publicly traded entity. Anyone can infringe on your right to…
By WashPostPR September 22 at 2:01 PM All Washington Post content will be formatted as Instant Articles. Complete feed of stories from The Post available every day The Washington Post today became the first new partner to launch on Facebook’s Instant Articles platform. The Post will send 100% of its stories to Facebook so that…
Every so often, someone (always a man) sends me a casual tweet asking why he can’t retweet me. Of course, the obvious answer is that my account is locked—a tiny optional blessing of Twitter’s functionality that means I’m not searchable to the world outside. The more complex answer relates to why my account is locked…