Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
The WordPress REST API is a huge initiative and feature plugin being developed for the core WordPress project. But it can be a bit confusing if you don’t know much about it yet. Let’s discuss what this project is, why it’s important, and how to get involved. The WordPress REST API project is the most exciting…
With 288 million active users sending around 500 million tweets each day, Twitter offers plenty of opportunities to grab attention. Sometimes that attention is positive, as it was when semi-employed comedian Justin Halpern started the account Shit My Dad Says and found himself on the receiving end of book deals, mentions on The Daily Show,…
An FBI crackdown and skyrocketing rents in San Francisco are forcing them to take side jobs—like driving for Uber—or leave. It’s a story built for headlines: Monied men in Silicon Valley create a demand for highly compensated sex work that can easily be coordinated using the same apps and services they create at their desk…
On Wednesday, Gawker reporter J. K. Trotter published a bombshell exposé accusing Mic.com news director Jared Keller of stealing from at least eight news organizations for as many as 20 feature stories. Gawker’s story was passed to me by a friend and colleague who knew that Jared and I, once friends, have not been on good terms…
NSFW The image contained in this post shocked me — but it also made me think about art and censorship. An image is worth a thousand words, right? I think Plato said that, or maybe it was Miley Cyrus. And for the past day, I’ve been contemplating an image of a bloody knife-as-phallus, attached to a pair…
paging_filterJournalists at The Wall Street Journal are grumbling about a new policy governing the number of people who can be credited with bylines or taglines on articles.Editors and reporters at Rupert Murdoch’s American broadsheet were informed this week that stories should generally carry no more than two bylines, including reporting credits that are often tagged…
paging_filterMic news director Jared Keller has left the company. A source with knowledge of the decision said that Keller’s departure was not voluntary.Keller’s work was the subject of a Wednesday Gawker exposé, in which J.K. Trotter wrote that Keller “appears to have plagiarized at least 20 passages from at least eight different news sources over the…
It’s Kind of Cheesy Being Green Apple is petty sometimes A few months ago my friend Edd Dumbill shared a discovery. He pointed out that if you search Twitter for the words “green bubbles” you’ll find very consistent results. People hate green bubbles. Example: I’ve been performing that same Twitter search every few days and…
White Spaces In my ongoing quest to come up with a way to write more, I’ve been trying to think about the things stopping me. Sure, there are big things such as not having enough time. But there are also little things. In some cases, literally. Take, for example, the text entry box on various…
If you want to criticize Facebook on Facebook, good luck — and don’t be surprised if your grievances fail to go viral. Thanks to a little-known guideline that restricts references to its brand in boosted posts, Facebook Inc. may decline to give greater visibility to posts that reflect negatively on it. Call it Facebook’s own…