We Love the Internet 2019/37: The I was Caroline Calloway edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

· Netflix Under Pressure: Can a Hollywood Disruptor Avoid Getting Disrupted?

· The adults in the room

· Has marketing lost its bottle?

· The strange power of the idea of “average”

· The iPhone and Apple’s Services Strategy

· This Music Video Has Been Modified From Its Original Version (and Now It’s Vertical)

· My Year of Podcasting Dangerously

· Meet the Unfluencers

Reference points:

· What Allyship Means to Netflix Executives

· The 1619 project

· Cloudflare uses lava lamps to generate a fundamental resource: Randomness

· Why These Social Networks Failed So Badly

· The rise and rise of Scottish Twitter

· The best 1-star reviews of the Seven Wonders of the World

· The 25 Most Important Characters of the Past 25 Years

Longer reads:

· I Was Caroline Calloway

· In the Trump Era, a Family’s Fight With Google and Facebook Over Disinformation

· Face recognition, bad people and bad data

· Silicon Valley’s crisis of confidence

· The machine always wins: what drives our addiction to social media

· Netflix’s Carla Engelbrecht Chooses Her Own Adventures

· We Can Be Heroes: How the Nerds Are Reinventing Pop Culture

· How Amazon and Silicon Valley Seduced the Pentagon

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

· The King of Fish and Chips

· Our intern recites all of ‘mean girls’ in less than 30 minutes

Things to look at/read:

· That time the X-Men’s humanity was put on trial in a real court of law

· Legal action by players should be the next step for online abuse

· The devastating truth about National Avocado Day

· The worst sales promotion in history

· In defense of reading the same book over and over again

· The Not-So-Chill History of Hawai‘i’s Breeziest Shirt

Animal corner:

· Nah man, they didn’t have to do my man like that.

· This may be my favorite dog video ever.

· Even though you hurt me, I still find ways to be with you

· well, clarice, have the lambs stopped screaming?

· Nothing says the weekend like a capybara farting in the bath

Tweets of the week:

· Left this up for my roommates but if anyone needs to quote tweet it and say “same” to go viral, I understand

· EXPECTO PATRONUM!

· My mom: My dog:

· If this her reaction, just wait until someone hands her the other six deadly sins.

· Damn Fatima

· Marvin Gaye with the music and backing vocals removed is astonishing

· fuck sake who’s done these

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

· Why Is Joe Rogan so popular?

· The Man Who’s Going to Save Your Neighborhood Grocery Store

· If Sapiens were a blog post

· The Dreamcast Died Too Soon, but Its Legacy Lives On

· Inside the Twisted, Worldwide Hunt for a $7 Million Stolen Car

· The American Missionary and the Uncontacted Tribe

· Justin Trudeau: the rise and fall of a political brand

· Have You Been Daygamed? The New Method Men Are Using To ‘Attract Amazing Women’

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