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Advertising seems like some fat vampire squid sucking value out of everything, while from the inside it feels like being stuck in the dilemma of giving away an expensive service (run by people in your company who don’t give a shit about ads and frankly would rather they disappear), and flaky advertisers who are always one bad quarter away from bail... See more

We sometimes treat the information industries as if they were like any other enterprise, but they are not, for their structure determines who gets heard. It is in this context that Fred Friendly, onetime CBS News president, made it clear that before any question of free speech comes the question of “who controls the master switch.”

Perhaps it’s just nostalgia, but despite having “little to hide,” I recall a better way to use the internet. My interest in the internet as a kid was entirely exploratory, rather than performative. Bored out of my suburban small-town mind, I wanted to play Starcraft and learn random things and chat on IRC with new people around the world who shared... See more

With the Brooklyn-based Kin, 35-year-old Batchelor is aiming to create a new category she calls "euphorics" and, in the process, to bring the wellness trend into the bar scene. Her timing is smart: Nearly half of regular wine drinkers, including two-thirds of Millennials, say they're trying to drink less alcohol, mostly for health reasons, accordin... See more

I buy a shirt for $60

Every company should be asking: