Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Credit Illustration by Edwin Fotheringham A: Hey, girl! So great to see you at Mike’s party on New Year’s. You free this week? Want to grab drinks? * B: Yo!!!!! Sorry it took me so long to respond. I’m the worst. Yes! I’d love to! First round is on me because I’m so terrible. Tuesday???…
Reclaim and make the most of the public domain at Open Book Hack Day on January 14, 2015 at The New York Public Library, brought to you by NYPL Labs and The Readium Foundation. During this day-long event, we’ll push the limits of what’s possible with ebooks and open texts, liberate public domain documents onto…
For the past two months, The New York Times has been running a very useful addition to its popular travel column “36 Hours,” a weekly series that informs readers how to spend a day and a half in a given city. The new feature, titled “Plan Your Next Adventure,” placed New York Times-recommended attractions on an interactive Google Map,…
As the ongoing Podcast Renaissance invigorates audio storytelling—you may have heard about a little program called Serial—social news site Reddit is grabbing a piece of the action to better share its most popular stories with a mobile audience. Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian recently announced a new endeavor: Upvoted, the official Reddit podcast that digs deeper…
Readers responded passionately, and in large numbers, to my post last week about The Times’s decision not to publish the now-famous Charlie Hebdo cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. (In fact, I’ve never had more comments on a post or column.) A vast majority of readers were critical of The Times’s decision, feeling strongly that both…
Fewer than 1 in 5 members of corporate boards at major companies are women, according to a new census of board members by Catalyst, a non-profit organization that promotes women in business leadership. The further up the corporate ladder, you look, the scarcer and scarcer women become — while women make up 45 percent of the…
Many of the arrests are believed to stem from comments made on Facebook, Twitter and social media as the world reacted to the atrocities. They are part of a broader French crackdown on perceived hate speech, extremism and anti-Semitism amid a government push for tougher anti-terrorism measures. Anti-semitic French comedian Dieudonné was among those detained…
Forty-eight hours after hosting a massive march under the banner of free expression, France opened a criminal investigation of a controversial French comedian for a Facebook post he wrote about the Charlie Hebdo attack, and then this morning, arrested him for that post on charges of “defending terrorism.” The comedian, Dieudonné (above), previously sought elective office in…
<![endif] Viral 01.13.15 Unreleased Beastie Boys/Nas Video Surfaces “Too Many Rappers” featuring Nas circulating on the web. A never-before-seen Beastie Boys video from 2011 leaked online this week. “Too Many Rappers,” featuring Nas, was part of the Beasties’ Hot Sauce Committee Part Two , an album that became their swan song after the 2012 death of…