Why Have Digital Books Stopped Evolving?Very intense article which demonstrates an amazing amount of knowledge about the way the printed word and the paper one have developed. Relevant to what we're trying to accomplish with Genius Beta, especially as we are at such an experimental stage, and in many ways the next chapter of the history presented here. Shooting in Oregon: So far in 2015, we’ve had 274 days and 294 mass shootingsThose of y'all who read my posts with any regularity will know that I am not in a position to offer anything more compelling and passionate than the President's speech in the wake of the Oregon shootings (check out the annotated transcript at the Washington Post) but I thought this article was one of the best responses to Obama's call for media outlets to crunch the data themselves. How Radiohead’s ‘Kid A’ Kicked Off the Streaming RevolutionGrantland bringing the non-sporting goods again. This is an inside look at how Radiohead's Kid A got streamed way before its release in what was an extremely groundbreaking move--- a lot of artists do it now, but this was 1999! Obviously since then Radiohead have made noisier pronouncements on the future of music but this is a really cool, unconventional flashback.