Islamic State leaves tech companies torn between free speech and security 

Here is the reason why it’s not so simple to just wipe out terrorist communications on social media: Another challenge for the companies: It is…

The Evolving Role of News on Twitter and Facebook

Pew Research Center reports that a majority of social media users now use Twitter and Facebook as a source of news: clear majorities of Twitter…

Everything Science Knows About Reading On Screens

Here’s a summary of the latest in eye-tracking studies. No real surprise: many researchers say that reading onscreen encourages a particular style of reading called “nonlinear”…

A word reporters should add to Twitter searches

Good advice here from a New York Times staffer on crowd-sourcing searches. It’s everyone’s favorite word, and one you should add to any Twitter search…

Key principles behind the new Guardian website

The foundations for the Guardian new site were laid using insights from the Guardian’s in-house analytics platform Ophan into how people were reading its previous…

Google now a more trusted source of news than websites it aggregates

Yahoo, its smaller rival, has been getting into direct content creation, including news. Google is now a more trusted source of news than the websites…

Americans don’t live in information cocoons

Partisans from both sides were most likely to consume news from outlets that were estimated to be relatively centrist, a study finds. Americans Don’t Live…

Right-wingify the Times

At a “Hack Day” hosted by the New York Times, I didn’t do a lot of coding. My partner Jeffrey wrote a beautiful little Javascript…

U.S. colleges find their ideals tested abroad

“Is N.Y.U. going to advertise the magnificence of studying in Abu Dhabi while the government persecutes an academic for his political beliefs?” Good question. It’s…

Netflix’s War on Mass Culture

According to Nielsen, Americans on average consume nearly five hours of TV every day, a number that has actually gone up since the 1990s. That…