The more recent cover New York Magazine features an incredible photo by Iwan Baan showing the blackout in lower Manhattan after Hurricane Sandy. It’s a perfect bookend to the recent cover by Bloomberg Businessweek. Baan’s photo of lower Manhattan is difficult to stomach.
Bloomberg Businessweek editor Josh Tyrangiel just tweeted “Our cover story this week may generate controversy, but only among the stupid.” The cover is fantastic, but the article by Paul Barrett is even better. Even disregarding the scientific evidence, insurance companies are adjusting its policies to account for climate change to better profit from the shift.
The weekly magazine announced Thursday it’s killing its print edition after 80 years. The magazine will soldier on as a digital edition for tablets and e-readers. It is important that we underscore what this digital transition means and, as importantly, what it does not. We are transitioning Newsweek, not saying goodbye to it. We remain committed to [...]
Following up on how content is published on the web, Slate’s Farhad Manjoo hates the pagination of online articles: Pagination is one of the worst design and usability sins on the Web, the kind of obvious no-no that should have gone out with blinky text, dancing cat animations, and autoplaying music. It shows constant, quiet contempt for people [...]
Anil Dash argues that publishers should stop worrying about publishing pages and start publishing streams. Start moving your content management system towards a future where it outputs content to simple APIs, which are consumed by stream-based apps that are either HTML5 in the browser and/or native clients on mobile devices. Insert your advertising into those streams using the [...]
The Internet Archive is a fantastic resource and it just got better with the addition of the last three years worth of TV news programming. As of Tuesday, the archive’s online collection will include every morsel of news produced in the last three years by 20 different channels, encompassing more than 1,000 news series that [...]
By now, you’ve no doubt heard about Romney’s leaked video that could potentially snowball his campaign. It’s a damning video and looks bad no matter how you slice it. BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith has a great post about how the video came into the possession of Mother Jones. It’s a nice look at how the modern [...]
Continuing their runs of awesome, Neil deGrasse Tyson and the NASA Extreme Environment Misson Operations team discuss the possibilities of stopping an asteroid from colliding with our planet for VICE’s newest video vertical, Spaced Out. [via theaggregate]
