We Love the Internet 2024/44: The Can the media survive edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The Rise of Ending Explainers, Explained
• Did That Song Go Viral on TikTok Organically — Or Was It Paid For?

Reference points:

• Microsoft Excel’s bloopers reel: 40 years of spreadsheet errors

Longer reads:

• Can the media survive?
• Meta’s AI Abundance
• ‘We Were Wrong’: An Oral History of WIRED’s Original Website

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• When meeting your new sibling doesn’t go quite as planned…
• Jackie Chan — How to Do Action Comedy

Things to look at/read:

• Dumped? Divorced? Time to go viral.

Animal corner:

• I laughed way too hard at this
• batcat
• Top 10 Dog Halloween Costumes!
• He’s so cute but why does he have a receded hairline?
• Lil’ couch potato

Tweets of the week:

• Hellsite, yes, but it’s free
• nicole kidman being in a film called babygirl is actually perfect cause it’s like another version of her last name
• why do they look like pokemon evolutions
• peter griffin… no…
• LinkedIn is a disease
• Talk about a bad egg

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Once Top Advisers to Trump, They Now Call Him ‘Liar,’ ‘Fascist’ and ‘Unfit’
• The Future of Film May Just Be Old Movies
• Don’t Fall Asleep: The Oral History of ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’

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