Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
It comes as no surprise that one of our most popular categories of video continues to be weather. Extraordinary weather events can affect us all, and Storyful is all about people. With heavy snowfall in the US and temperatures plunging in Europe, we thought it a perfect time to explore the phenomenon of winter viral…
HOW TO LOSE WEIGHT IN 4 EASY STEPS I’ve spent the past year losing 80 lbs and getting in shape. A lot of people have been asking me how I did it; specifics like what diet I was on, how many times a week I worked out, etc etc. So I thought I’d just answer…
A couple of months ago, I pitched a feature on the music industry that I was totally qualified to write. But the editor questioned my experience: What exactly had I published about the music industry? By my count, over two thousand blogposts since 2009. But the links to my author pages bounced back because the…
In May of last year, I took a trip to Nevada to report a profile of a political candidate. After a three-hour interview with my subject, a member of her communications team suggested we go to lunch. Midway through, I jumped up from the table and ran toward the restaurant’s bathroom. I was unable to…
A few weeks ago, someone reported this to us at Medium: “I just started an article in Polish. I can type in every letter, except Ś. When I press the key for Ś, the letter just doesn’t appear. It only happens on Medium.” This was odd. We don’t really special-case any language in any way,…
Black or White is offensive. Not because of its patronizing view of race relations, not because of the horrible acting—although that is all there in spades. It’s offensively boring. Every minute of this movie felt like an hour. In the back of my head was one of those cartoon clocks going “tick… tick… tick… tick.”…
CFO Publishing Receives Folio’s Notable Technologies for 2014 Award CFO recognized as a technological innovator by Folio Magazine. New York, NY (PRWEB) February 02, 2015 CFO Publishing today announced it has been recognized as a technological innovator by Folio Magazine. CFO received the Notable Technologies for 2014 award for its in-house development of an advanced…
Ed. note: This post was originally published on the Community site. Anyone paying attention to the world of pop culture knows that it’s a hostile one, with feuds and rivalries between artists being the norm. When it comes to relationships between female artists, infamous Twitter battles between Iggy Azalea and Azealia Banks and notorious showdowns between…
Hopefully this morning’s subway therapy session was helpful, because you’re going to need another one after attempting to get home tonight. Because of this charming weather, tonight’s reverse commute looks to be even worse than this morning’s Hothscape. So what’s in store for this evening? Let’s peer into our miserable futures. Due to signal problems…
(Via Dan Lange) [UPDATE BELOW] So your train was delayed—but why? The reasons are manifold, but if you are stuck atop the 7 train platform while the freezing ice daggers pelt you in the face, there are, at least, two good justifications: At 9 a.m., an errant umbrella sat burning on the third rail near…