Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Do you love your dog? Do you love the concept of dogs in general? Have you ever met a dog? Then strap in, my friend, for the emotional journey of this or any lifetime, because you are about to experience a mind-blowing example of the emotions that one cute dog can evoke in humanity in…
A press conference will be held Thursday to announce the construction of the Hunters Point Library. Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer, library officials, local families and business owners will meet at Center Boulevard and 48th Avenue at 9:30 am to announce that the project has been funded and that construction will soon begin. The 21,500-square-foot library…
On a spring afternoon last year at an outdoor café in San Francisco, two denizens of the tech community sketched out their strategy for a startup. Like most 28-year-olds in Silicon Valley, they had smarts and dreams. One was a passionate, fast-talking New Yorker, the other a shy computer whiz from Syracuse, New York, and…
(Tien Mao/Gothamist) Jimmy McMillan, he of perpetual office-seeking and a beard that would chagrin a topiary, is being evicted from his rent-stablized East Village apartment. According to the Daily News, the freewheeling leader of the Rent Is Too Damn High party has been served an eviction notice ousting him from his $872 per month St….
Pushbullet isn’t new, but since I installed it maybe a year ago, it has sneakily gotten a lot better, especially for Android phones. And as I used to it to text from my browser for the umpteenth time yesterday, it struck me how great it’s really become. So maybe you’ve heard already but let me…
Gobs of new open source projects are released every year, but only a few really capture the imaginations of businesses and developers. Open source software management company Black Duck tries to spot these, measuring which projects attract the most contributors, produce the most code, and garner the most attention from the developer world at large….
A passerby walks his dog near an accumulation of snow on Jan. 27, 2015, in Central Park in New York. Snow levels in New York have ranged from 7.8 inches in Central Park to more than 28 inches in Eastern Long Island. Photo by Yana Paskova/Getty Images In the run-up to this week’s blizzard, some…
What’s a pizza company to do if they want to get in on that sweet50 Shades of Greycash cow action, but have absolutely no promo connection to the infamous amalgam of Freaky Friend Fiction word snippets masquerading as dialogue? How about an ad referencing BDSM? OK, great, but even better: how about an ad that…
This year marked a time when media companies began seeing themselves akin to technology companies. Media and tech have always been in lockstep, one driving innovation in the other, but in 2014 that partnership started to creep into they way some companies actually defined themselves. And technology suppliers have been all too happy to…
Photo via Flickr/StevieHave any cash lying around that you’re just chomping at the reins to get rid of? Perhaps you’d be interested in this startup filing an IPO to fund it’s hunt for Bigfoot.That’s right, Bigfoot. According the Wall Street Journal, Carmine “Tom” Biscardi, a man who has been on the quest to find Bigfoot for…