It’s so important for writers to be saving copies of their work on their own, either by downloading PDFs of stories when they’re published or copying everything to their own blog. You can no longer count on companies to keep them up for any length of time.
Source: Preserving work in a time of vanishing archives – Columbia Journalism Review
Worrying about password sharing is the kind of thinking that comes from a position that may be too comfortable by half. All these games of exclusivity and restrictions *will* bring piracy back to the forefront, assuming of course media companies don’t sue the tech companies to stop it.
Source: Piracy Crackdown May Be Next Front in Streaming Wars | Hollywood Reporter
Hope companies are happy allowing generations of future workers being raised under less than optimal conditions just because they can’t be bothered to make it more comfortable and easier for new mothers to pump.
Source: Breastfeeding mothers who feel unsupported at work produce less milk — Quartz at Work
It’s hard to overstate how bad a take it is to say cities should actively work to keep out all but the most financially successful residents.
Source: Backlash after Princeton study encourages class segregation
Great post with great points on the power, flexibility and potential of WordPress in all sorts of environments from my former Voce colleague Nick Gernert.
Source: Disrupting the Enterprise – Presentation by Nick Gernert at WCUS 2019
I’m pretty sure this “they never stop getting richer, even after they retire” thing would be slowed or stopped if these billionaires had to just pay their taxes like a normal person.
Source: Tech’s top 20 billionaires keep getting richer no matter how much money they give away – Vox
You can take issue with certain points in Warren’s plan, but it seems much more convincing and honest than, say, the 2017 tax cuts.
Source: Elizabeth Warren’s plan to pay for Medicare-for-all – Vox
Because keeping kids good and hungry is the way to motivate their parents.
Source: How a proposed rule change could affect free lunch for some kids in need | PBS NewsHour
It’s possible streaming will change the fundamental nature of movies. We’ve already seen instances like this in how Spotify and other services have changed music in various ways. But a movie will still be a movie, so let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
Source: As Apple, Disney and HBO start streaming, how will movies change? – Los Angeles Times
We knew it then, it’s incredibly apparent now.
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