We Love the Internet 2022/50: The Has the internet reached peak clickability edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Has the Internet Reached Peak Clickability?
• What Moneyball-for-Everything Has Done to American Culture
• Defector’s most successful promo email was too “creepy” to repeat
• Elon Musk Is a Far-Right Activist
• She Spent a Decade Writing Fake Russian History. Wikipedia Just Noticed.
• The Streaming Era Pauses for an Ad Break
• The Age of Social Media Is Ending

Reference points:

• The best inventions of 2022
• Clip interrogator
• Tesla has lost almost $700 billion of market value in the past year — the equivalent of 3 Disneys, 4 Nikes, or 6 Starbucks

Longer reads:

• Bad Reputation
• How to Build A Winning Paid Membership Program
• How to buy a social network, with Tumblr CEO Matt Mullenweg

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• The pickleball craze, explained
• What Were America’s Christmas Monorails?
• Downloading Music on the Internet in 2000
• How 2 Million Children Are Fed Daily By The World’s Biggest Free School Meal Provider

Things to look at/read:

• My Eight Deranged Days on the Gone Girl Cruise
• Last of the Cockney criminals
• The mysterious rise of food allergies
• How to Be Unremarkably Average

Animal corner:

• Get a staffy they said.. it’ll be fun they said
• Scarlette is droppin it!
• Poor fatty

Tweets of the week:

• Just remains a great list
• It’s the time of year we must all take a quiet moment to remember the “Leave it, Tony, he’s not worth it” Christmas card.
• Stanley Tucci is the best-dressed man on telly. Why? Because he dresses like the best-dressed people on earth: Italian pensioners. Here’s how he does it…

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The Weirdest Roadside Attraction in Every State
• The $30m lottery scam
• Megalopolis: how coastal west Africa will shape the coming century
• An American Girl
• “It’s Going to Be Epic”: The Oral History of James Cameron

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