Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Aram Zucker-Scharff Doing some personal metrics tracking lately using a semi-secret process soon to be blogged about and have uncovered this fun fact: Since January 5th I’ve read >140 articles on the internet. As of this week, I think I’ll be able to track word counts. Sadly, I can confirm that the internet is still…
Most of The New York Times’ most popular items last year weren’t news stories by Benjamin Mullin Published Jan. 12, 2015 1:48 pm Updated Jan. 12, 2015 2:02 pm The New York Times Last year’s most popular item in The New York Times was this interactive, an image gallery of sorts that showed the photographic…
Neil Young’s “high resolution” PonoPlayer goes on sale for $400 today. You shouldn’t buy it. The recalcitrant rocker isn’t wrong for wanting to reclaim audio quality in the digital age, but in the service of that goal he’s peddling junk science, and supporting expensive gear and music files you don’t need. For the last few…
Over the past week, millions of people who had never heard of French magazine Charlie Hebdo have come into contact with its controversial covers and cartoons. And many have come away with questions about those cartoons, including a nagging sense that their depictions of Islam and people of color have been insensitive, or even racist….
by Julia Homer (About the author: Julia Homer was the editor of CFO Magazine for its 1985 launch and served at CFO Publishing until January 2012 when she left as executive vice president. While CFO was part of The Economist Group from 1989 to 2009, Homer helped launch CFO Europe, CFO Asia and CFO China,…
Even Ross Douthat came out swinging yesterday in favor of the slain cartoonists of Charlie Hebdo (“The Blasphemy We Need“). Since it is difficult to find even one square inch of common ground between right and left in American politics, this ought to have come as good news. Unfortunately, Douthat’s Take is yet another of…
Only when it doesn’t endanger their ability to make a profit. “Freedom of speech” has perhaps never looked so confused. In the days immediately following a massacre at French comics magazine Charlie Hebdo last week that left at least 12 people dead and 11 injured, multinational tech companies rallied support. Donations have poured into Charlie…
Photo Credit Keetra Dean Dixon close shareTools YEARS ago, while producing the hit TV series “The Shield,” Glen Mazzara noticed that two young female writers were quiet during story meetings. He pulled them aside and encouraged them to speak up more. Watch what happens when we do, they replied. Almost every time they started to…
article start Seven years after the recession began, only one in 50 U.S. counties has fully bounced back, according to a study the National Association of Counties released Monday. The 2014 County Economic Tracker shows that 65 of the nation’s 3,069 counties have met or surpassed prerecession levels in four measured categories: jobs, unemployment rate,…