We Love the Internet 2022/34: The Internet from rocks edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The End of Social Media and the Rise of Recommendation Media
• Are You Sure You’re Not Guilty of the ‘Millennial Pause’?
• How Do Songs Get Picked for TV?
• “The Longest TV Negotiation I Have Ever Seen”: Behind Kate Bush’s ‘Stranger Things’ Sync Deal
• The Twitterification of TikTok

Reference points:

• Cinetimes
• Making Sense of the “Do Nudges Work?” Debate
• Major publishers are buying ads in mobile games like ‘Subway Surfers’ to juice traffic

Longer reads:

• The Internet from Rocks — A High Level Explanation of Computers and the Internet
• The Great Consolidation of the Video Game Industry
• Monzo growth
• Tinder hearted
• Hocus focus: how magicians made a fortune on Facebook

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• The Anti-Smartphone Revolution
• Life on the Internet
• Cancelled — Dubai’s Palm Islands

Things to look at/read:

• This Is What The Sex Lives Of Gen Z-ers Are Actually Like
• How one company has pigeon-proofed all of New York City
• What the ‘golden age’ of flying was really like
• The Secret to Being Lucky
• Why you should really stop charging your phone overnight

Animal corner:

• The most intense fight I’ve seen
• Her excitement is the cutest thing in the world
• Only happy when it rains
• Where is the cat?
• When you steal a sock and mum doesnt chase you…

Tweets of the week:

• Timing is everything
• well ok then
• my husband RAN — I mean absolutely sprinted — in from the garden, yelling my name, at 8 am, so he could show me this tomato. happy saturday
• ok hear me out: Luigiana
• never worn.
• Good morning! What are we having for breakfast today?
• Got a new iPad. ‘It will be fun’, they said. ‘You can turn pages with your face’, they said. Safe to say I have not mastered this yet.
• Virgil Van Dijk watching Sancho score

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Sam Taggart’s hard sell
• “It’s Either Going to Be Really Funny, or They’re Going to Be Horrified”: An Oral History of Superbad
• The Seductions of Declinism
• Prison Money Diaries: What People Really Make (and Spend) Behind Bars
• The secret history of the US government’s family-separation policy

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