Welcome to this week’s tech and culture news! Subscribe to get this delivered to your inbox weekly. First, two updates from us: Our latest news piece covers online abuse and Twitter’s recent internal memo leaks, from Sydette Harry. “Too often the ‘solutions’ offered focus on creating a nicer internet, but what about when nice is based Read More
The “free speech wing of the free speech party” is getting tough. Dick Costolo thinks Twitter’s abuse is his own personal problem. His message to his company, his commitment to handling it is declaimed with all the resultant swagger and pledge of a technological arms race. Twitter is coming to kick them out and mute Read More
This document is designed to give some insight into how Model View Culture runs its editorial practice and our aspirations for that process, which is an ongoing dialogue with the community and our contributors. This is not comprehensive and is ever-evolving. This is part one of a series, and doesn’t touch on many, many vital Read More
This is one person’s account of a large scale internet attack and the current state of online terrorism in the industry. Trigger warnings for abuse, stalking, violence, rape, misogyny, trauma. This does not reflect the experiences or views of all people who have suffered large-scale internet attacks. 1. Obligatory but reluctantly: Get your security locked down Read More
We launched one year ago today! Some news on our plans for Model View Culture in 2015: Officially Announcing Our News Blog! Towards the end of last year, we started experimenting with our News blog. The response has been great, so we’re going to build out our News functionality and start publishing short write-ups on current news Read More
Our 2015 subscription drive is now open, just in time for our first birthday. We wanted to take a few minutes to talk to you about why you should support Model View Culture and sign up!! 1. Our community needs independent tech media. Tech media is beholden to the venture capital that funds it and the Read More
Blameful Post Mortem We’ve got two stories for the Blameful Post Mortem this week. First, incredibly violent, disturbing and misogynistic behavior at Uber: “A senior executive at Uber suggested that the company should consider hiring a team of opposition researchers to dig up dirt on its critics in the media — and specifically to spread Read More
Two pieces out from Fast Company: a profile of Tristan Walker and a roundtable discussion with African-American tech leaders on entrepreneurship, funding, the media and other topics: “My white colleague thinks, ‘Did you hire that person just because they’re black?’ My honest answer is, ‘Yeah, that’s part of it. Yeah, because they’re black I actually Read More