We Love the Internet 2022/07: The Podcasts are no longer private conversations edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Podcasts Are No Longer Private Conversations
• Gen Z brought the ’90s back because it feels impossible to grow up in today’s economy
• The Key to Adapting Video Games Is to Make Them Into Television

Reference points

• Seven Habits of Highly Effective Podcasts
• The 25 best TV theme songs of the 21st century

Longer reads:

• Spotify backlash offers rare insight into reeling music industry — and struggles of working musicians
• How to bring a language to the future
• The Banality of Genius: Notes on Peter Jackson’s Get Back

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Titanic with a Cat
• All the Ways to Make Bubble Tea, Taiwan’s Pearl-fect Drink
• The Backrooms (Found Footage)
• Is “Cancel Culture” Really a Threat To America?
• ComplexCon

Things to look at/read:

• The adorable love story behind Wikipedia’s ‘high five’ photos
• Taste The London Underground With This Synesthesia Subway Map
• Book a prize: Idaho library has wait list for story eight-year-old hid on a shelf
• Everything Must Be Paid for Twice
• On the Insanity of Being a Scrabble Enthusiast

Animal corner:

• 🌪
• Closes the curtains on me
• sweet piglets taking a nap, ears wiggle when you say kind things!!
• All the wiggles
• Tik tok took down the first time lol he’s fine!!
• She nailed the bow perfectly

Tweets of the week:

• I was today years old when I found out “MARISA TOMEI” is an anagram for “IT’S-A ME, MARIO”
• 🤣🤣🤣
• Someone scheduled a Teams meeting with 23k people on NHS Mail. Just watching this unfold 87 messages later…..
• when you accidentally pressed “😭😭😜😭”
• After Jerry’s unfortunate accident, Ostriches were never allowed to work in the lumber mill ever again.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The language of your fathers
• How a struggling bartender became the face of a resurgent left.
• Can science fiction wake us up to our climate reality?

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