We Love the Internet 2025/02: The Gamification of Pop Music edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Social Media is Depriving Artists
• Advertisers Keep Avoiding News Sites, and Publishers Have Had Enough of It
• Why Knowledge-as-a-Service will redefine the internet
• Mark Zuckerberg’s Eternal Apology Tour
• Streaming Services Are in for Some Big, Big Changes

Reference points:

• The 26 Biggest Myths in the Entertainment Industry…Debunked
• Ten business trends for 2025, and forecasts for 15 industries
• 5 major themes to watch in 2025
• The 200 best inventions of 2024
• A Chinese Internet Phrasebook

Longer reads:

• The Gamification of Pop Music
• AI means the end of internet search as we’ve known it
• The King of Network TV Wants Just 30 Minutes of Your Time

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Here’s to 2025
• We Fell For The Oldest Lie On The Internet

Things to look at/read:

• The Future That Never Came
• A Celebration (And Map!) Of London: The Biography
• Did my quest to become beautiful just make me uglier?
• The Swedish heart of Hayao Miyazaki’s ‘Kiki’s Delivery Service’

Animal corner:

• 1000
• Bark at your dog
• Sibling love
• Realizing she isn’t as tough as she thought
• Reggie’s Cousin Dino is sooo sneaky when it comes to theiving behind bars
• Big man loves a paw scratch

Tweets of the week:

• *terrible beatboxing noises* “My name is Mark Z and I’m here to say that i’m letting people use slurs in a different way!”
• Nothing beats getting home from work, kicking off your shoes, pouring a glass and settling down with a good book
• astounding work, he Linkedin’ed his wife

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Asleep at the Wheel in the Headlight Brightness Wars
• How the Ivy League broke America
• Eat what you kill

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