the nice Storm

“The content material individuals are platform naifs and the platform persons are ceaselessly content material morons,” wrote John Herrman close to the tip of (October 10, 2015)’s content material Wars column about what Twitter’s new “Moments” feature is even looking to be. however the content/platform key birthday party rages on nevertheless, with unfulfilled publishers groping awkwardly at structures under the influence of alcohol with investment money, while out within the ice storm the target market gazes wistfully at power traces overhead. Medium introduced a write-best API (October 10, 2015), making it the internet’s prime “cloud storage for a bunch of pictures of jugs of piss.” Medium can be now a commenting platform, by some means? And even The awl picked a key out of the bowl this time! Choire’s able to “try some new ways of being with people.” Wink! Digg is a commenting platform now too, and it’s able to hop into mattress with everyone:

Launching on Friday, Digg Dialog will feature a dialog with author Paul Ford about an upcoming feature on Wikipedia within the New Republic. users will have the ability to sign up on the internet with fb, Twitter, or Google Plus and create a consumer title to ask questions. There can even be an overhauled Digg iOS app with the feature built in, says Digg’s design director Justin Van Slembrouck.

Digg, Paul Ford, the brand new Republic, Wikipedia, facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, and Apple sittin’ in a tree, S-Y-N-E-R-G-I-Z-I-N-G.

Google introduced “Accelerated mobile Pages” (or “WAP 3.0“) which is now not an obvious attempt to compete with fb’s immediate Articles however completely simply one thing Google considered a very long time ago and was once going to do anyway. It doesn’t even in point of fact recognize facebook that well as a result of they go to completely different faculties. And over at the Washington publish, Chris Cillizza is directing his most vigorous come-hither glances at Genius. perhaps annotation can “retailer journalism!” Or footnotes! 1

meanwhile the big apple times just put out a memo celebrating a million online subscribers and plotting a future process of charging cash for excellent journalism. Like that’ll ever work. somewhere else in media goss, web triangle shirtwaist fireplace The Huffington submit may well be getting a union, and Penny Arcade still exists, and remains to be horrific.

Self-described journalist Matthew Keys used to be found responsible on three CFAA charges (October 10, 2015), and faces a possible most sentence of 25 years in prison, even though the U.S. legal professional informed Sarah Jeong they’d seemingly searching for “lower than 5 years.” As little as I need to enhance Matthew Keys in the rest, that is completely absurd bullshit and if it withstands enchantment, it’s going to best be as a result of:

Alleged collegiate floor-pooper Charles C. Johnson spent part of final evening looking to negotiate with ex-Gawker and Florida Man Adam Weinstein to buy Gawker’s “secret Kinja memos”. The whole thread is a treat. Rick Moranis is just not retired. He simply doesn’t act in any movies. there’s, apparently, a distinction. “South Carolina Is Infested With Floating Carpets of fire Ants.” This ghost must have texted Jessica Roy instead. The content material aspect of Digg has a nice characteristic about the Myers-Briggs type Indicator. INTP, when you had been wondering. Elon Musk clarified what he supposed by using “nuke Mars.” It’s still kinda supervillain-ey although. And eventually, “Netflix & chill” is formally over.

nowadays’s Album: There’s a new Hood web mixtape!

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these days’s track: local H, “Nothing unique“

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