Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Every day, 750,000 workers log into enterprise chat software Slack to communicate with colleagues. Todd Kennedy, a 37-year-old CTO at a software startup, also uses the service—to talk with his wife, Julie. The couple created a fake company name, “TheKennedys,” to sign up for the two-member Slack chat that has replaced iMessage for them as…
Maybe you’re the kind of person who doesn’t need to be told that threatening to rape and murder women is not okay. It’s not a casual means of communicating disagreement; it’s not a hilarious riposte; it’s not a valid expression of frustration at being a sad and lonely individual. And if you know and understand…
A screenshot from Johnson’s (now suspended) Twitter account. (Twitter) Chuck Johnson, the far-right mega-troll who doxed two New York Times reporters and argued that homosexuality caused the Amtrak derailment, may at last be off Twitter — this time, for good. On Sunday, Johnson was permanently suspended from the site after asking for funds to “take…
Facebook tips. 1. SHARE three posts from someone else about stuff you are interested in. If it’s your friend’s kids, you’ll see more kid photos. If it’s tech/entrepreneurialism, you’ll see more of that. 2. Write five original posts about the same topic. You’ll see even more of that same topic on your feed. I remember…
We are living through a jubilee of internet forgiveness. After many years of being what it is and doing what it does, the Web seems unexpectedly prepared to forgive its debts, free its captives, and start afresh with the mocked and exiled of yesteryear. And, like the biblically mandated jubilees of yore, we are making…
There is no doubt about it, new communications technologies are forcing us to reassess whether privacy and free speech laws and conventions, invented way before such technologies could ever have been imagined, can be updated usefully, or whether we need to rethink some fairly fundamental notions we have about privacy and freedom. Social media cases,…
The New York Times, among a small cadre of other outlets, today announced it will start publishing selected articles directly into Facebook’s News Feed. Some think the move historic; others deem it unremarkable. Either way, the intriguing part is to understand how to make sense of this deal and what it means for the future….
TL;DR: We are unhappy with harassing behavior on reddit; we have survey data that show our users are, too. So we’ve improved our practices to better curb harassment of individuals on reddit. Running a community-based site is complicated; running a site with 9,000 active communities in a changing world is even more complicated. For the…
article start Publishers are still digesting the details of Facebook’s new “Instant Articles” initiative, which in the first 24 hours has set off reactions ranging from panic to confusion to envy across the online news landscape.There are many questions for media executives to consider about the program, which allows whole articles and videos to be…
We look at Facebook engagement around the first ‘Instant Articles’ on Facebook. Yesterday saw the launch of Facebook’s long-anticipated ‘Instant Articles’. The new format sees a chosen group of publishers able to post media-rich articles straight to the news feed. For now, Instant Articles are only available to iPhone users with the latest version of the…