We Love the Internet 2022/02: The Podcasting hasn’t produced a new hit in years edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Podcasting Hasn’t Produced A New Hit in Years
• What to Do When Playing the Word Game Wordle Isn’t Enough? Solve It.
• Why the New York Times is buying the Athletic
• Instagram is launching three home feeds, and one is chronological
• 54 years ago a computer programmer fixed a massive bug — and created an existential crisis
• The Inside Story of Politics for All, Twitter’s Infamous UK News Account

Reference points:

• My favourite asks of 2021

Longer reads:

• Colors: Where did they go? An investigation.
• The trouble with Roblox, the video game empire built on child labour
• Libertarianism For Me, But Not For Thee
• The Boy King of YouTube

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Dissolving a pure gold bar in acid
• this is my favourite Xbox TikTok ever

Things to look at/read:

• Going Out to Eat in the Age of the Shrinking Menu
• Kim & Kanye & Pete & Julia
• Spider-Man comic page sells for record $3.36 mil bidding

Animal corner:

• Aguerrroooooooo
• Twitter, explained in 15 seconds
• “I cannot possibly comment until Sue Grey concludes her enquiry”
• Slap
• Golden retriever
• I’m learning that labs are pure chaos 90% of the time

Tweets of the week:

• Newcastle aren’t messing about this January are they
• sometimes I wake up brimming with thoughts, ideas
• Alex said not today racetrac
• the necklace Troy gave Gabriella
• Ayye I been wheezing at this for a hour
• Honestly good for her
• We do love a good index….
• About to make a friend :)

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The Radicalization of J.D. Vance
• Is the ‘Future of Food’ the Future We Want?
• The Scholarly Pursuit of Shrek: 20 Years of Ogres and Irony

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