We Love the Internet 2020/39: The Future of fandoms edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• 2020 Bundles
• Networks Are Prepping for the Craziest Fall Season in the History of Broadcast TV
• The hidden costs of streaming music
• Asobu: Putting Japan’s indies on the international map
• Quibi, the IPL, and the future of sports storytelling
• The Dodo: social is the ‘ultimate incubator’ for viral video to become TV shows
• This Deal Helped Turn Google Into an Ad Powerhouse. Is That a Problem?
• Instagram at 10: how sharing photos has entertained us, upset us — and changed our sense of self

Reference points:

• The future of fandoms
• 15 Awesome Examples of Social Media Marketing

Longer reads:

• Seeing Like an Algorithm
• Could They Be Any More Famous?
• The Future of Film Talk Is on Letterboxd
• Casey Newton on Leaving ‘The Verge’ for Substack and the Future of Tech Journalism

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• How reality TV shows cast the right people
• I created a video lens that uses hand gestures to show comic-book style messages
• Someone found a good clip of the watermelon incident from amazing race. It was funny then and is funny now
• I don’t know who needs to hear this, but here’s the Red Army Choir singing ‘Sex Bomb.’

Things to look at/read:

• Designed in Minecraft, built IRL
• One man’s trash
• Rohit Roy’s soft-drink addiction battle turns him into TikTok star
• The powerful decide
• The Wound of Multilingualism: On Surrendering the Languages of Home

Animal corner:

• I laughed until I had hiccups
• We don’t deserve birds
• An otter defending a random plastic box from being sprayed
• I swear my brother’s cat has a Northern Ireland accent. Aye.
• This is why you don’t go where bears live.
• Wait for it…
• kleine Ratte
• Hi bro,can you rap?

Tweets of the week:

• Gotta stop smoking weed thought that pipe was rafiki off lion king
• This vase has had enough of your nonsense.
• I’m never carpooling again
• How powerful was the laser?!
• i love us.
• Man was just tryna shit I’m CRYING
• It’s clear from the data coming in, that the United Kingdom is now facing a very serious, and potentially overwhelming, second wave of banana bread.
• Booker T got 24 hours to respond

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The Slow, Troubling Death of the Autopsy
• In Dark Times, I Sought Out the Turmoil of Caravaggio’s Paintings
• The next reconstruction

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