We Love the Internet 2023/20: The Digital media carnage edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Digital media carnage
• The Internet Isn’t Meant To Be So Small
• The IP Era’s Venture Capital Philosophy Has Poisoned Movies
• How to Discover The Real Insights That Increase Sales

Reference points:

• The 100 greatest video games of all time, ranked by experts
• 23 Pandemic Decisions That Actually Went Right
• Eye candy

Longer reads:

• My Descent Into TikTok News Hell

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Drunk Mel Gibson Arrest Diorama
• Pizza in Its Purest Form: The Story of Lucali

Things to look at/read:

• This L.A. Woman’s Gifting Suite Makes or Breaks Viral Instagram Products
• Why Is Everything So Ugly?
• The remarkable story of 1983’s Battle of the Bonds
• 50 years after release, Disney’s Robin Hood is still a life-changing furry phenomenon

Animal corner:

• Cutest tiny friend ship
• My tongue goes pitta patta for treats
• Issa wut?
• Guys I found the BEST STICK EVER on my morning walk

Tweets of the week:

• there are five pubs called ‘coach & horses’ in and around soho and only two of them are good.
• tfw you were so ugly as a teen that reporters want to talk to you
• These two street signs face each other, about 5 metres apart, and are in scholarly dispute about apostrophe placement

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• A Century of the New York ‘It’ Girl
• Taco Bell’s innovation kitchen, the front line in the stunt-food wars
• The last gamble of Tokyo Joe
• The war on Japanese knotweed
• Pour One Out

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