Memberkit 1.0: Upgrade your analytics and build a data-powered membership program
Automated reports, example code, and other field-tested patterns and techniques for your team to copy, use, and improve! All written in an easy-to-read, folksy style.
Tripping in LSD's Birthplace: A Story for "Bicycle Day"
After consuming magic mushrooms in Basel, Switzerland, I ran into Albert Hofmann, the chemist who catalyzed the psychedelic era.
Open Source COVID-19 Library
We are developing a library of parts/components that can reduce the bottlenecks encountered by manufacturers of Ventilators. We invite Engineers and Professionals to contribute in this discussion.
Alameda, Calif.: On San Francisco Bay, With Great Views and Rising Prices
An island city celebrates families and diversity, and is finding ways to build affordable housing and confront homelessness.
Inside Mark Zuckerberg's Lost Notebook
In the early days of Facebook, Zuck kept his plans for world domination in handwritten journals. He destroyed them. But a few revealing pages survived.
The great shift in Japanese culture
The decline of Japan’s influence on world culture
'Shattered': Inside the secret battle to save America's undercover spies in the digital age
The rise, fall and resurrection of Flickr
One nation, tracked
Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan
An Exclusive Look Inside Apple’s A13 Bionic Chip
He “Was Struggling Not to Laugh”: Inside Netflix’s Crazy, Doomed Meeting With Blockbuster
When Netflix execs Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings met with Blockbuster brass in 2000, they wanted to sell for $50 million. Blockbuster all but laughed them out of the room, writes Randolph in That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea. So they decided to “kick their ass.”
SmartNews’ latest news discovery feature shows articles to users from across the political spectrum
“We’re thinking of how to create more transparency and also expose readers to something they might not usually see, but present it in a fun way, like a serendipitous discovery.”
Google Search Rater Guidelines
A most peaceful revolution
As economics 101 holds, busting a monopoly (governments are effectively local monopolists in the market for money) by introducing competitors should make the market fairer for consumers. Faced with no alternative, citizens were previously forced to save in their local currency and tolerate inflation. Now with an effective off-ramp, citizens have the choice to exit the local monetary regime, at significant cost to the central bank (selling their local currency increases the velocity of money and worsens inflation). So the mere existence of Bitcoin instills monetary discipline on a central bank which might otherwise pursue a ruinous level of debasement.
The Origins of ONA: An Almost-True History
Rich Jaroslovsky recounts the early days.
Why Won’t Twitter Treat White Supremacy Like ISIS? Because It Would Mean Banning Some Republican Politicians Too. - VICE
What Happened After My 13-Year-Old Son Joined the Alt-Right
"I explained that he’d been a pawn in a much larger game. At age 13, suddenly friendless, he couldn’t be expected to understand how he was being manipulated or how technology made it easier for the online alt-right to find him."
Earthquake Survival Kit
Everything you need as well as a link to a supply tracker spreadsheet.
I Subscribed To Push Notifications From 12 News Outlets For 3 Months — Here’s What I Learned
From 2017 - a survey on the language of mobile push notifications from major news outlets
A Machine May Not Take Your Job, but One Could Become Your Boss
When Conor Sprouls, a customer service representative in the call center of the insurance giant MetLife talks to a customer over the phone, he keeps one eye on the bottom-right corner of his screen. There, in a little blue box, A.I. tells him how he’s doing.
Status as a Service (StaaS)
FastText
FastText is an open-source, free, lightweight library that allows users to learn text representations and text classifiers. It works on standard, generic hardware. Models can later be reduced in size to even fit on mobile devices.
The making of Amazon Prime, the internet’s most successful and devastating membership program
An oral history of the subscription service that changed online shopping forever.
We launched a paywall. It worked! Mostly.
They’ll particularly pay, we also learned, if you send them newsletters. The propensity to subscribe by people who enter WIRED.com on a mobile device is rather low—unless they come in via a newsletter.
Push Notifications Statistics (2019)
Mostly written for marketers but some good datapoints for the state of the market in 2019
Misinformation and platform influence dominate Perugia media conference - Columbia Journalism Review
Defusing Disinfo
Original analysis and commentary on the subject of disinformation. Designed to further understanding of this unique threat and highlight some of the strategies and tools to counter it.
Doc Searls Weblog · Is this a turning point for publishing?
Google News Initiative | News Consumer Insights
Connect your Google Analytics account and use these templates to benchmark your site.