Jul 25, 2016 Links to Read

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/case-against-media.html

http://madjackshack.blogspot.com/2016/07/vindication.html

https://medium.com/lean-luxe-insights/welcome-to-lean-luxe-5ec0c2d06792#.duf4lya8t

http://leanluxe.com/

http://om.co/2016/07/24/how-publications-are-committing-harikari/

http://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2016/6/25/wa7dlhdvigvt1quo9xzq6xnrbugfyf

https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6.945/psets/ps01/ps.txt

http://manhattansproject.com/on-the-negroni/

http://manhattansproject.com/the-old-fashioned/

http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/yiannopoulos/3359/the-internet-is-turning-us-all-into-sociopaths/

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/pokemon-go-will-make-you-crave-augmented-reality

https://eev.ee/blog/2016/07/22/on-a-technicality/

https://sivers.org/2c

http://bradfrost.com/blog/post/a-code-review-or-yet-another-reason-to-love-the-web/

http://www.cjr.org/analysis/cleveland_rnc_media_trump.php :

media disappointment:

Three days in, the protests outside of the convention have been remarkably quiet.

what a shock:
http://www.cjr.org/opinion/turkey_coup_erdogan_press_freedom.php

http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/07/mic-used-text-messaging-during-the-republican-national-convention-to-conquer-reader-fomo/

http://beltmag.com/

http://ben.balter.com/2016/07/21/removing-a-feature-is-a-feature/

https://theintercept.com/2016/07/22/in-cleveland-lonely-protesters-marched-through-an-empty-wasteland/

more about the depression that the media must be experiencing because cleveland didn't explode. the journalists cannot add conflict zone reporting to their resumes. the media probably hoped for a disaster because they don't live in cleveland.

https://theintercept.com/2016/07/22/dnc-official-mulls-fuck-you-emoji-in-response-to-fox-news-freelancer/

ORGANIZERS FOR THE Stand Together Against Trump rally in Cleveland had planned for 5,000 participants. The march, a peaceful demonstration that “America’s fundamental ideals of liberty and equality are greater than Trump’s incessant scapegoating and bullying,” was supposed to close out a week that some had predicted would overshadow the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, which came amid nationwide civil unrest and race riots and exploded in violence.

But there was no mayhem in Cleveland.

a huge enclosure with a tall wall is being used for the philly convention too.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-25/china-slaps-ban-on-internet-news-reporting-as-crackdown-tightens

http://digiday.com/publishers/abc-news-facebooks-live-rnc-coverage-nets-11-5-million-views/