2020s
What the actual f***?: Well-heeled climate deniers are buying Youtube ads on major brands' videos
Sometimes, it almost feels like humanity deserves to burn.
I’m not a great one for making too much of New Year, but it is a great marker for doing some analysis. I’ve just been going through the analytics for the digital futures site I write for, and the posts that caught people’s imagination are fascinating.
Quite a day, down on the beach…
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My old employer — RBI — has all but completed its exit from journalism. Its answer to the problem of making online journalism pay?
Lies, damn lies and Facebook metrics. The network’s inflated video views killed College Humour, claims laid off staffer.
Vimeo appears to have a new social video creation tool in beta: vimeo.com/create
Just occasionally, bad things happen to bad people in an amusing enough manner to give you faith in the goodness of the universe: British Nazi set self on fire trying to burn down synagogue
OK. This is… quite a story: The strange case of Paul Zimmer, the influencer who came back as a different person
Newsletters are a particularly brutal medium. You put in the work, craft something you are proud of - and often the first feedback you get is someone unsubscribing. Nothing wrong with them doing that, of course, but it’s almost perfect for shaking your confidence…
Yes, please: A return to blogs (finally? sort of?)
I’m trying something new - triggered because I couldn’t get this stuff in my usual links digest if it was going to work in an email. But I think actually capturing and curating investing stuff from social media is worthwhile:
Headline of the day: It’s Not Arson, You Absolute Fucking Morons