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Opinion | Michael Goldhaber, the Cassandra of the Internet Age - The New York Times
Charlie Warzelnytimes.com
Of the world’s top hundred websites, Wikipedia is the sole noncommercial site. If the contemporary internet is a city, Wikipedia is the lone public park; all the rest of our public spaces are shopping malls—open to the general public, but subject to the rules and logic of commerce.
Ethan Zuckerman • Building a More Honest Internet - Columbia Journalism Review
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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
The problem ‘akshually’ is that contemporary programmatic advertising is too efficient, and the ads sales people at The New York Times selling outrageously priced ads on a fixed, rate-card basis were selling media not really worth the cost (when measured at the level of precision the internet makes possible). Decades worth of such advertising mispr... See more
Antonio Garcia Martinez • Advertising and Web3
I’ve since learned that Griffin is locked in a nasty behind-the-scenes legal fight with Sony Pictures over his depiction in Dumb Money , which is set to begin its theatrical roll-out on Friday. Griffin has hired at least two separate law firms and sent multiple threatening letters, one of which I obtained, and he’s consulting with crisis P.R. peopl... See more
Ken Griffin’s Secret War on ‘Dumb Money’
Rutger Bregman Wants to Save Elites From Their Wasted Lives
nytimes.com
In 2011 Cowen published a digital pamphlet in which he argued that since the 1973 oil-price shock, America had experienced a hidden crisis of lost growth that would be resolved only by the development of new technology. He called this period the “Great Stagnation”, and he proposed a cultural solution rather than an economic one: raise the social st... See more