Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
We plugged our Twitter account, @voxdotcom, into the poetry-generating website Poetweet and were so tickled with the results that we tried it on a bunch of other handles, too. Here is the outcome: Vox The New York Times BuzzFeed VICE ClickHole The Verge CNN The New Republic Fox News MSNBC SB Nation Want to turn your…
Begin: WordPress Article Content It seems that with every earnings report, we hit another milestone in Facebook’s shift to mobile. Here’s the latest one: 526 million of its monthly active users access Facebook solely from their mobile devices.That’s up from 456 million in the previous quarter, and it’s an increase of around 78 percent from…
by Katie Hawkins-Gaar Published Jan. 29, 2015 10:13 am Updated Jan. 29, 2015 11:05 am New York Times front page on Wednesday, January 28. (Photo by Katie Hawkins-Gaar) It was an exciting moment for user-generated content. The New York Times featured nine Instagram photos on the front page of its Wednesday edition. As far as…
You should totally blog about this article on Tumblr. You know, just a headline, excerpt, link back, and a few lines of your own thoughts. If you do, you’ll likely find a new interface for posting content to the microblogging behemoth. Today, Tumblr is pushing out a pretty substantial refresh to its writing and editing…
This is what realpolitik looks like on the Internet. Marek Sotak/Flickr If you use Twitter, you’ve probably encountered the “subtweet,” a technique we defined last year in The Atlantic as “the practice of talking about someone without referencing them explicitly.” Alexis Madrigal exemplified subtweeting like this: So, “@alexismadrigal is a jerk” is one thing, but…
Following the news in 2014 is a bit like flying a kite in flat country during tornado season. Every so often, a whirlwind of outrage touches down, sowing destruction and chaos before disappearing into the sky. These conditions are hardly new. Over the past decade or so, outrage has become the default mode for politicians,…
Credit: Image by Thinkstock The desire to build a community and reader engagement around articles is a growing focus for publishers and organisations on the web. Community, social media or user-generated content teams have become a mainstay of digital news organisations, and further possibilities for engagement are explored regularly. Now business site CFO has thrown…