We Love the Internet 2020/14: The What comes after TV edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The fate of the news in the age of the Coronavirus
• Why the Success of The New York Times May Be Bad News for Journalism
• Amazon made a bigger camera-spying store — so we tried to steal its fruit
• Why you sometimes need to break the rules in data viz
• Tikked off: What happens when TikTok fame fades
• It’s All So … Premiocre
• How an internet comedian pivoted to a career in music with in-your-face gay rap that has teens traveling for hours to see his shows

Reference points:

• UK Businesses Coronavirus Response for Workers
• Infotagion
• Discover UI Design Decisions Of Leading Companies, From Leaked Screenshots & A/B Tests
• Public service announcement: these memes are now canceled
• Best year in music
• 52 things I learned in 2019
• The Best Things I Learned In 2019
• The Board Game Remix Kit

Longer reads:

• What comes after TV?
• The impact of COVID-19 on…
• Imagine a world without YouTube
• BlitzFail: How Not to Go Off the Rails
• The Creative Wisdom of Ira Glass
• How a Hot $100 Million Home Design Startup Collapsed Overnight

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Brian and Lee 5.30am LOCKDOWN
• Diecast Rally Car Racing
• Spying on the Scammers
• This Week I Learned to Throw Cards
• The Octo-Bouncer
• Lava Flow in Leilani Estates
• Car vs world’s largest trampoline
• Rammstein — Europe Stadium Tour (Time Lapse)

Things to look at/read:

• What Everyone’s Getting Wrong About the Toilet Paper Shortage
• The Social-Distancing Culture War Has Begun
• The Four Possible Timelines for Life Returning to Normal
• There was always a way to pay for the programs we need
• Iconic Anime Akira Predicted 2020 Olympic Game Turmoils
• Eating for Two
• My Ex-Boyfriend’s New Girlfriend Is Lady Gaga

Animal corner:

• This Border Collie And Baby Sheep Playing Together Might Be The Sweetest Thing You’ll Watch Today
• Cat is not pleased owners are home quarantined
• This is how much my samoyed shed in 3 days!!
• Sometimes my cat walks around with my slipper like he’s wearing it
• In other news… the cat over the road is called Walter
• This is Toby he is now working from home…

Tweets of the week:

• People being funny and brilliant on Twitter has never been so essential.
• at no point did I know what was coming next
• Had to order Penis Pasta from Ann Summers due to stock piling covidiots
• Just two incredible texts from my landlord
• New burger restaurant open in Seoul. That slogan at the bottom…
• this is one of those details that a post-apocalyptic video games includes so you can see how invested they were in worldbuilding
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Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The Concussion Diaries: One High School Football Player’s Secret Struggle with CTE
• Schur Farms: The Organic Creation of Some of the Century’s Most Iconic Characters
• Why All the Warby Parker Clones Are Now Imploding
• The Great Buenos Aires Bank Heist
• How to Prepare Now for the Complete End of the World
• Why your brain is not a computer
• The Bible That Oozed Oil
• There’s an Entire Industry Dedicated to Making Foods Crispy, and It Is WILD