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While many companies offer an email-based login alternative to signing in using social networking account information, Medium's approach is different. It's basically ditching the requirement for users to have to come up with a secure password, remember it, then enter it in each time they sign in to the blogging site.
This method, the company claims, is more secure.
Notes Medium on a blog post announcing this change: "Passwords are neither secure nor simple. They're hard to remember or easy to guess, everyone re-uses them (even though they know they shouldn't), and they're a pain to type on mobile. They don't even keep you that safe."
The password-free login is not replacing Facebook or Twitter authentication – those sign-in options remain available. But for people who want to use their email to sign in or sign up for Medium, it's the only other choice offered.
The email login process itself is simple enough, if only a bit more inconvenient due to having to switch between browser tabs to access your inbox (or launch your email client) then locate the email Medium has sent and click the provided link. If you're used to using a password manager like LastPass or Dashlane, for example, Medium's password-free login means you'll have to go through extra steps to authenticate with its website in order to use an email login. But for those who simply try to remember their passwords as they navigate the web, the password-free option is fairly clever and may even be a more welcome approach.
This is not the first time a consumer-facing Internet company has offered a password-free login option. Instapaper, for example, implemented password-free registrations years ago. But more recently, most companies introducing password-free logins do so by taking advantage of SMS, not emailed links. In March, for instance, Yahoo rolled out a new way to sign in with its introduction of on-demand passwords, which are texted to users' mobile phones as needed. This is perhaps more cumbersome than Medium's emailed links, however, because users would then have to type in the password they received via text into the website, instead of just clicking a link.
However, some security experts said that these sorts of SMS-based passwords weren't safer than the one-time-passwords generated using authentication tokens or other strong authentication schemes like cryptographic smart cards, but are actually providing users with the "illusion of increased security." Similarly, experts will likely claim that emailed links aren't significantly safer either, citing the fact that email itself isn't really a secure form of communication for a variety of reasons – plus, anyone with access to your inbox could then click the link and take over your Medium account.
That being said, Medium's emailed links aren't active indefinitely – they're only live for 15 minutes and can only be used once.
The email option is live now on Medium.com, which offers a free blogging service that competes with sites like Tumblr, WordPress.com and Blogger. The company also notes the new password-free method will work today for users on its iOS app, while Android support for email sign-in is coming soon.
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The 36-year-old Hamari Adhuri Kahani star took to micro-blogging site Twitter to thank fans.
"Awarapan is a film that's very close to my heart. Can't believe it's been 8 years! @mohit11481 @shriya1109 @mrinalinisharm #8YearsOfAwarapan," he tweeted.
Shagufta Rafique, who wrote the crime-thriller, said, "Celebrating my most favourite film with you all on Twitter... Congrats team Awarapan.
Awarapan, directed by Mohit Suri, saw Emraan as a hitman who falls in love with a girl who teaches him to have compassion for others.
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After finishing her A-levels last year Izy Hossack's baking blog, Top With Cinnamon, reached over 200,000 readers. "I started experimenting with recipes and set up a basic, free website. And it just went from there," says Hossack. Oh, and she's had a cookery book published too, following the blog's success.
Similarly, Jamal Edwards, started up a vlog – a video blog, usually using Youtube – aged 16 after receiving a camera for Christmas. At first, he filmed footage on his estate. "I was filming foxes in my garden. When I uploaded that I got 1,000 views and I was like, 'What? Let me just try something else.'"
Now, his channel SBTV – which broadcasts music promos, interviews and performances from the UK rap scene – has over 500,000 subscribers.
Does the idea of blogging or vlogging about your hobby sound like bliss? Well, for some people, like Hossack and Edwards, this is their full-time career.
"Audiences have a high commercial value, so bloggers can make substantial sums of money," says Kate Ross, managing director of digital marketing agency eight&four. Brand partnerships, advertisements and merchandising mean it's never been easier to turn your blog into a lucrative career.
However, don't expect overnight success, warns Anna Gardner, the writer behind Vivianna Does Makeup. "Good things come to those who wait. Blogging should be fun, and an extension of you and the things you love. If it isn't fun, and you aren't enjoying it, maybe it's not your scene."
So, if you're looking to start a blog, or perhaps have gained a following and would like advice on how to monetise your audience – join us on Thursday 2 July from 1–3pm BST for a live chat with the experts. We'll be discussing:
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Rishi Garg, the vice president for Corporate Development and Strategy at Twitter, a role that put him in charge of the Mergers & Acquisition strategy, has announced his departure after a tenure of 13 months.
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"Our team has built a stronger Twitter with a dozen acquisitions in the last year. Hats off to @dickc for admirable leadership, humour, energy, and trust," Mr Garg said, using Costolo's Twitter handle to thank him.
Twitter did not immediately announce a replacement for Mr Garg, whose departure comes just two week after Mr Costolo announced he was stepping down as the company's CEO.Mr Costolo has been replaced by co-founder Jack Dorsey on an interim basis.
Other high-level departures over the last 18 months include product chief Daniel Graf, COO Ali Rowghani, and CFO Mike Gupta.
Before joining Twitter, Mr Garg was the M&A chief for fellow Jack Dorsey company Square.
According to his online profile, Mr Garg received a BA in Economics and MS in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
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"Off to Bulgaria for #Dilwale18Dec with the man @remodsouza," Varun tweeted.
It is to tell you that Remo has been roped in to choreograph a song in Rohit Shetty's directorial venture.
Earlier, SRK had welcomed veteran Bollywood star Vinod Khanna to the sets by sharing a photograph with him and Rohit on the same medium.
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The leading lady took to micro-blogging site Twitter and shared her Instagram picture link. PeeCee captioned the image as "#Prakashjha productions next costume designer.. #TanatanCutPiece hilarious! #beautifulbhopal"
If Ajay Devgn impressed all in 'Gangaajal' as a police officer then 'Gangaajal 2' will see Priyanka too in a tough cop Abha Mathur's avatar.
Maddox is the first writer I remember reading on the web. If you came of age during the first blogging boom, you probably had a similar experience. His writing and his style was influential for a generation of writers, humorists and web entrepreneurs. Since launching in 1997, he's seen hundreds of millions of visitors, developed some of the web's most classic memes, and sold a metric ton of t-shirts. Most of all, he's always been ahead of the curve in terms of online business models and calling out bullshit trends in culture from "extreme" marketing to the swine flu craze.
After a few years of sporadic content, Maddox is back in a big way. More recently, he's built a massively popular podcast, a YouTube channel and regularly taken the media to task for offensive stories on Robin Williams' death, BuzzFeed's nasty habit of stealing content, and media's propensity to pseudo-outrage.
If you had told me as a teenager, when my friends had Maddox stickers on their cars and we all eagerly AIM-chatted each other his pieces, that I'd be interviewing him over a decade later or that he'd occasionally link to my own writing, I probably wouldn't have believed you. But here we are. To continue our series of interviews with influential and insightful voices on the inner-workings of today's new media, I reached out to ask Maddox his thoughts on media manipulation, some of his least favorite websites, and outrage porn.
So you were one of the biggest and earliest critics of BuzzFeed—not just for the annoying listicles and nostalgia trolling but also for the content they steal from creators like you. A few years and millions of dollars in funding later what do you think of them now?
They're even worse. I was just reading the gripes of BuzzFeed employees I know personally, who were complaining that they weren't given credit for writing, producing or directing any of their videos. Since I wrote my original piece about BuzzFeed, many of my friends have found employment at their Los Angeles offices, where they produce much of their video content. Not only does the site take credit for material from other websites, BuzzFeed doesn't even credit their own staff for the content they legitimately created. These credits aren't insignificant either, as many of my friends have cobbled together careers based on their credits on small web projects. When Buzzfeed publishes content, the creator is, for all intents and purposes, BuzzFeed corporation. As a friend very aptly pointed out, The Onion doesn't credit individual writers, but they are a satirical news organization whereas BuzzFeed is not. The Onion's entire reason for existing is satire with a strong edi torial point of view, while BuzzFeed's reason for existing is…to generate ad revenue and to trick you into clicking their content. One does it out of necessity to its voice, the other out of ignorance, greed or malice.
There was the famous screenshot you took last year after Robin Williams' death with ABC running the tasteless footage of his home. Ultimately, you targeted the CEO and they had to apologize and stop. Do you think if you hadn't said anything, would anyone have cared? Of course, a bunch of other outlets also stole your scoop after. I'm guessing you don't think very highly of the whole establishment?
If I hadn't posted that juxtaposition of real-time helicopter footage on the same page as his family's request for peace during their grief, it's possible that someone else may noticed the same thing, possibly even from ABC News. However if it were the latter, there's a tremendous amount of internal pressure not to run problems like this up the corporate ladder. Chiefly, the fact that your boss has an ego and a boss of his or her own; pointing out a mistake like this could embarrass him or her and ultimately cost you your job, or at the very least, a raise or promotion. Would you risk it? Nah, better look the other way. You have bills to pay and mouths to feed. Why rock the boat? Let that asshole Maddox do it.
You and I told about some of the sanctimonious coverage of the celeb nude leaks and then the Spider Man/Woman cover. Do you think these people actually care? Or do you think that pretending to be mad—that getting upset and getting other people upset—is a quick way to get traffic?
There are three reasons at play that, when combined, create a Captain-Planet-esque superhero of shitty motives for outrage: The first reason is that the righteous indignation feels good. We live in an age of relative peace where we don't have a "big devil" like communism or fascism to point to as the source of all our problems. They need a cause that isn't religious since believing in things isn't cool anymore, so finding an enemy that they feel just in hating and blaming makes them feel needed. Second, There is the money motive. It's very lucrative to get those clicks coming to your website. Outrage is big business. And third, as cynical as I am, I can't totally dismiss the possibility that some of these people might actually care. However, their well-intentioned idiocy is often myopic, causing more harm than good.
Why does the media have to refer to every scandal as a BLANK-gate? What would you rather they do?
It's a lazy communication device used by journalists as shorthand for "this is a scandal." I'd rather they call it just that: a scandal. Though #GamerScandal doesn't quite have the same ring to it. I think it's irksome because it bothers us as writers to know that some lazy journalist thought they were being clever by using the suffix to get the headline. It's a race to the bottom to see who can coin the word used to describe the scandal of the hour, with no regard for the breadth, scope or context of the issue. For example, the suffix was used to label both "Pardongate," the controversy surrounding Bill Clinton's pardoning of 140 people, and "Nipplegate," when Justin Timberlake exposing Janet Jackson's breast during the Super Bowl halftime show. Though the latter gave rise to the possibly more annoying "wardrobe malfunction."
Tell us about your media diet. What do you read? Who do you trust? Who should people stay away from? What is the worst outlet in your eyes?
My favorite news portal is Google News. It shows headlines from a number of different news outlets for popular stories, so you can see at a glance which organizations are trying to spin the narrative. For example, when the GOP-led report on the Benghazi scandal (Benghazi-gate for short) was released, right-wing websites like Fox News wrote headlines like, "GOP lawmakers, Benghazi survivors fume over House report" whereas left-leaning news organizations bristled at the findings, using words like "debunked" to describe the scandal. I take the "truth is usually somewhere in the middle" approach and try to read both left and right-leaning news websites. Though if I'm short on time, I'm partial to BBC or NPR. The dryer and more boring the news, usually the better. Remove the profit motive from the news, be it corporate or outrage-based, and you'll get better news.
Your stance early on about not taking advertising on your site—because it would change how and what you wrote—was very influential to me. Not just for my own writing, but it helped me to see the subtle but significant warping effect that a business model can have on a medium (which I wrote a lot about in my book). Clearly, history has validated your views there—a huge part of the reason that internet culture is so awful is because of CPM advertising. How has that policy been for you? Clearly, it cost you a lot but are you happy with the choice? What about now with your videos, which are ad-supplemented in some ways?
The choice to publish in a medium that is funded by advertising, such as YouTube or podcasting, weighed heavily on me. I rationalized the decision by upholding my promise to always keep my written website ad-free to have an outlet to express myself that would always be free of corporate interests and the self-censorship that ensues. Having dipped my toe in ad-funded mediums, I appreciate the freedom I have to say what I want so much more. I'm constantly worried about what I can or can't say when someone is paying the bills. Not having a profit motive to get people to click on my website has allowed me to be more honest as a writer. I don't have to write a listicle to get people to click because I don't make money from that traffic. Frankly, the more traffic that comes to my website, the more I have to pay out of pocket to serve those readers. Success punishes me.
The ad-free model has benefited me in another way: if I praise something, people trust me because they know I don't advertise and have no reason to laud something I didn't truly believe in. It's a very powerful form of trust that money literally can't buy. I feel comfortable with my decision. It's a form of asceticism that has put me in dire straits financially at times, but the sacrifice has lead to a greater appreciation for what I do.
What do you think of podcasting as a medium? It's having a moment here and you've jumped on it on a big way. I remember you tried a radio show with Sirius, what 10 years ago now? Where do you see this going? What opportunities does it afford you?
Despite the Apple-related etymology of the name, podcasting is an excellent medium and the new home of talk radio. I first started listening to talk when I was 12-years-old, so I was saddened to see the demise of all the talk radio giants. When the last great AM and FM talk stations crumbled, the baton was passed to podcasting, starting with Adam Carolla. He was one of the first to make the successful transition to the new medium and has flourished. My brief stint with Sirius was fun, but didn't last long because there were probably too many cooks in the kitchen.
The cost of entry into podcasting is almost trivial, but the medium is starting to get saturated and the path to success more difficult. That's mostly a good thing, because the podcasts that do succeed are usually the best ones, made by the right people—the type of people who persist and create art, even when nobody is listening, because they love doing it. It has democratized broadcasting, and done it in a way that's free from the specter of advertising. At least in the beginning. The future is bright.
This is not a media question at all, but I was genuinely surprised to learn when we hung out last year that you ride a bike. I just never saw Maddox on a bike. What else don't we know?
I actually don't eat a ton of red meat (steak). Though I try to get Korean or American BBQ at least once a month. I'll never give up my bike though. Still the fastest way around town during traffic, guaranteed. I still recommend your episode to people as a "best of" for new listeners. Yours is the only guest-problem to make it to the top-10 list. We still reference your problem all the time. Would love to have you on again. Thanks for these interview questions, that was fun. I wanted to say this up top but didn't want to sound like a circle jerk, but I really appreciate your writing and think that it's insightful and well-written. We think alike on a lot of things, and there are few writers I'd say that about.
Ryan Holiday is the bestselling author of Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator and two other books. He is an editor-at-large for the New York Observer and his monthly reading recommendations are found here. He currently lives in Austin, Texas.
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Sheen reportedly took to the micro-blogging site to slam Richards, both in short tweets and in an open letter in which he calls her various names and says she calls him a "deadbeat dad" even though he's given her millions of dollars in support (they share two daughters). However, he gave a glowing review of Mueller, calling her a "rock star".
"Brooke M is a sexy rok star whom I adore D Richards a heretic washed up piglet Shame pile Happy Father's Day!!!" Sheen allegedly wrote.
The tweets appear to have been deleted, but the open letter remains online and can be found here. In it, Sheen slams Richards' acting abilities and says he'll see her in court.
Denise Richards then posted a response on Twitter, saying simply, "Happy Dad's Day! @charliesheen have a great trip in Mexico! Kids were disappointed u weren't here for it- Hey we'll celebrate when u r back!"
Sheen has become well known for his rants over the years and has reportedly had beef with quite a few people, leading to backlash that included his leaving Two And A Half Men and a rift between him and co-star Jon Cryer. Cryer told Seth Meyers that he didn't feel conflicted about including the story in his memoir, because it was such a huge story at the time and fans were eager to hear his side of the story.
Brooke Mueller has not responded to Sheen's rant, but hasn't been immune to her own set of troubles; last year she regained custody of her children after a drug overdose sent her to a psychiatric hospital.
"The judge in child dependency court signed off on the move. Brooke was extremely emotional and grateful that the ordeal has finally come to a conclusion. There will be no more random drug tests required or required parenting classes," a source said.
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The League was mentioned briefly in the Washington Post article on the South Carolina shootings. While the group doesn't figure in the tragedy directly, their materials are easily available on the web and they have moved toward more public demonstrations.
In one representative post, the League's president Michael Hill reflects on how good it is to be a white supremacist:
In what is probably one of the clearest statements of the white supremacist views of the League of the South, organization president Michael Hill penned an article calling on League members to relish the white supremacist views of their Southern heroes. Anne Arundel County Council candidate and proud League of the South member Michael Peroutka told a news conference audience that he repudiated racists in the League and would pray for them. Well, he does know Michael Hill amd so he has some repudiating and praying to do. After reading the essay, I think Hill would just laugh at Peroutka's prayers.
Hill reminds his readers that historically Confederates and their sympathizers saw the South as "white man's country."
"in 1928, historian Ulrich B. Phillips called the South "a white man's country." ["The Central Theme of Southern History," American Historical Review 34 (October 1928), p. 31.] From the beginning of their history in the early 17th century, Southerners had taken this statement as an unchallenged fact, and the presence of an alien race in their midst drove it home with added emphasis. Few if any Southerners, or for that matter Northerners, believed in racial equality at the time of the War for Southern Independence nor in the decades to follow. That Phillips made his non-controversial (at the time) statement more than six decades after the end of that war speaks volumes about the stubbornness of what is now vilified as "white supremacy." Thus, I think it is safe to say that our Confederate ancestors and their descendants for at least two generations would qualify as "racists" and "white supremacists" by today's definitions of the terms."
That is just fine with Hill, and as it should be.
It is easy to imagine an impressionable young person adopting their ideology and then figuring out how to put it all into practice. Read the rest of the post here.
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My first post on Barton related to the Jefferson Bible (see also this follow up post). Others on Jefferson followed which eventually formed the basis for Getting Jefferson Right, my book with Michael Coulter.
For all posts fact checking David Barton's historical claims, click here.