We Love the Internet 2020/50: The How tag became a professional sport edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• How Microsoft crushed Slack
• The New Comedy of American Decline
• From Frameworks To Flywheels
• Facebook Struggles to Balance Civility and Growth
• OnlyFans Is a Billion-Dollar Media Giant Hiding in Plain Sight
• Let’s Talk About Simulated Sex: Intimacy Coordinators Two Years On

Reference points:

• Reddit’s 2020 Year in Review

Longer reads:

• Inside YouTube’s plan to win the music-streaming wars
• The home of the Sopranos is under siege: Inside the battle for the soul of HBO
• Will Hollywood Recover Fast, or Are We Going to Run Out of Stuff to Watch?

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• How tag became a professional sport
• Curved gravity roller treadmill.
• Mom’s dancing baby videos are giving us life

Things to look at/read:

• Early Modern Memes

Animal corner:

• Cat Seems Oddly Comfortable Standing Upright
• Cornflake the most adorable Burmese Python ever

Tweets of the week:

• Needed a new ID badge. Rather happy with my description of being an anaesthetist. It is a kids hospital, after all.
• has to be my favourite shakespeare quote
• Jesus had a good run.
• Viewed a flat today and I don’t think I’ll ever be able to stop thinking about the back door…
• did someone say 3 Saturdays until Christmas??
• i’m at the mcmonolith, y’all want anything?

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• ‘Singing and dancing to their deaths’: football’s forgotten tragedy
• The curse of the buried treasure
• Tony Hsieh’s American Tragedy: The Self-Destructive Last Months Of The Zappos Visionary
• “He’s Radioactive”: Inside Johnny Depp’s Self-Made Implosion
• Murder in Mexico: journalists caught in the crosshairs

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