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Shan WangApril 19, 2017

This handy little tool draws from Bloomberg data to add financial context on top of any news article

Bloomberg Lens, built by the digital agency Postlight Labs, finds companies’ and people’s names in any news article — not just Bloomberg’s — and overlays key facts such as stock prices or a person’s previous company affiliations.

Nicholas QuahJuly 26, 2016

Hot Pod: Are too many people skipping the ads in podcasts?

Plus: Using TV’s playbook to pitch podcasts to advertisers, moving from magazines into audio, and a Slack experiment aims to make Gimlet’s core listeners feel engaged.

Here is an easy free tool to convert all your articles to Google AMP

Joshua BentonDecember 14, 2011

Is it just 8,000-word epics that make people hit “Read Later”?

Or are tools like Instapaper and Read It Later really just scratching an itch for time-shifted reading, whether those pieces are long or short?

Megan GarberJuly 20, 2011

Webs and whirligigs: Marshall McLuhan in his time and ours

He can’t be reduced to a handful of pithy quotes, but McLuhan has something to say about our new world of frayed ends rather than neat endings.