THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN CONSULATE IN SAN FRANCISCO
Overflights, mapping fiber-optic networks, “strange activities.” Moscow’s West Coast spies were busy.
Pushed beyond breaking: US newsrooms use mobile alerts to define their brand
Findings from CJR research into newsroom’s use of push notifications.
Remove the Legend to Become One
The Best Interview Questions We've Ever Published
How to get the most out of an interview with a candidate
Really Good Emails
like pinterest for email design
Animal cafe listings
Newsonomics: Tony Haile wants to build the TSA Pre✓ for how we consume news » Nieman Journalism Lab
How Engineers Work at Smartly.io
How to prevent silos.
The Membership Puzzle Project
Research on how to make membership work as a business model.
Two Causes of Toxic Online Spaces (and some solutions) | Community Manager Musings
Evan Hamilton on community management best practices
Glamping: Luxury Camping in Wine Country
There's Blood In The Water In Silicon Valley
the political class can smell blood. That Zuckerberg campaign was, to the political world, blood in the water, a signal of a new vulnerability around his company and his industry.
Slack Engineering Blog : Introducing Highlights
high-level description of machine learning models used to predict what goes into a user's highlights
You Are the Product
London Review of Books on Facebook The Attention Merchants: From the Daily Newspaper to Social Media, How Our Time and Attention Is Harvested and Sold by Tim Wu Chaos Monkeys: Inside the Silicon Valley Money Machine by Antonio García Martínez Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google and Amazon have Cornered Culture and What It Means for All of Us by Jonathan Taplin
How to Detect Fake News in Real-Time
Advice to news platforms from the creator of Google News, Krishna Bharat
How BuzzFeed News revealed hidden spy planes in US airspace
BuzzFeed News trained a computer to find them by letting a machine-learning algorithm sift for planes with flight patterns that resembled those operated by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security.
So you want to continue playing soccer in college?
Checklist of how to prep for playing soccer in college
News You Can Use
Great for folks, who read their news on the go.
Why the scariest nuclear threat may be coming from inside the White House
Trump’s budget eliminates ARPA-E altogether. It also eliminates the spectacularly successful $70 billion loan program. It cuts funding to the national labs in a way that implies the laying off of 6,000 of their people. It eliminates all research on climate change. It halves the funding for work to secure the electrical grid from attack or natural disaster. “All the risks are science-based,” said John MacWilliams when he saw the budget. “You can’t gut the science. If you do, you are hurting the country. If you gut the core competency of the D.O.E., you gut the country.”
$9 Marketing Stack: A Step-by-Step Guide
Bare bones online toolkit to get started
What happens when global expansion goes bad: A cautionary tale from Japan
Checkology
Toolkit & online curriculum designed for high school teachers of news literacy.
Factitious
Maggie Farley and JoLT hacked together a game to test your ability to sniff out fake news.
iOS 11: The Ultimate App Store Guide
details on upcoming changes to the iOS app store layout
The Immortal Myths About Online Abuse
After building online communities for two decades, we’ve learned how to fight abuse. It’s a solvable problem. We just have to stop repeating the same myths as excuses not to fix things.
Towards Bursting Filter Bubble via Contextual Risks and Uncertainties
Rikiya and Shunan propose a novel Bayesian model of uncertainty-aware scoring and ranking for news articles.
A Sociology of the Smartphone
Snapchat Shows: Inside the Plan to Reimagine TV for the Mobile Era
With Snapchat Shows, the company’s content team is seeking nothing less than to redefine the very experience of video entertainment on mobile devices.
Alex Jones Will Never Stop Being Alex Jones
Take a kernel of truth, warp it and its context in a funhouse mirror, and set it against a heavy backdrop of conspiracy, while raising the stakes with a generous dose of fear. The strategy has made Jones — a stocky central Texan with a penchant for clamorous outbursts, fanciful digressions, and meandering stream-of-consciousness monologues — a celebrity.
Questions to ask as a new designer on the team
Written for designers but appropriate for product managers too.