We Love the Internet 2017/37: The 30 days timelapse at sea edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• “Skip intro”: Netflix could’ve saved TV title sequences, but now it’s killing them
• With Rupert Murdoch’s Help, Tab Media Targets Young and Cheeky on Campus
• Social Media Anxiety Disorder, Explained
• The Rise of the Twitter Thread
• How Instagram Makes You Basic, Boring, and Completely Deranged
• How Apple finally made Siri sound more human
• Jeff Bezos Mandates Programming Shift at Amazon Studios

Reference points

• Social media cheat sheet 2017
• Platforms and Publishers: A Definitive Timeline
• More Than 100 Exceptional Works of Journalism
• Amazon Advertising Pitch Deck
• Dark Patterns: inside the interfaces designed to trick you
• Keeping Insecure lit: HBO cinematographer Ava Berkofsky on properly lighting black faces

Longer reads:

• The Fake Americans Russia Created to Influence the Election
• Lessons Learned Scaling Airbnb 100X

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• 30 Days Timelapse at Sea
• Lego GTA
• Dad Practices ‘Ventriloquism’ On Baby, Baby Is Not Amused
• World’s Worst Driver Pulls Out In Front Of Loudly Whistling Train
• Highlight: USC’s blind long snapper Jake Olson finds game action on extra point against WMU
• Superheroes without special effects look pretty silly.

Things to look at/read:

• Cheese tea is the newest food trend and there’s nothing you can do to stop it
• The art of the heel
• Twin Peaks Finale: A Theory of Cooper, Laura, Diane, and Judy
• Every TV Show Would Be Better With Jason Statham In It
• Silicon Valley’s Politics: Liberal, With One Big Exception
• The Ugly Evolution of Cyberbullying
• This genius photo experiment shows we are all just sheeple in the consumer matrix

Animal corner

• I’m worried that we’re giving our cats unrealistic expectations of physical beauty.
• The kids thought it would be fun to play pie face with the dog

Tweets of the week:

• I just searched “vape wedding” and apparently this is a pretty popular and normal thing
• I, for one, welcome the world’s coolest dog.
• My housemate is a film and TV prosthetics artist and today she sent me this from her workshop. I can’t stop laughing.
• When internet users evacuate.
• Went to see IT, I’m first in the screen and this fucking guy’s just sitting there.
• Pokémon Go trying to murder people
• Oprah Dee Oprah Dahl …life goes on brah La-la how the life goes on
• Before u leave the house, think of the acronym ‘WOWEE’ Wallet phOne Wkeys Egg Egg (backup)

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads

• ‘We’re the Only Plane in the Sky’
• Vincent Is Telling You Everything
• The risk of nuclear war with North Korea
• The First White President
• The Thankless Task of Being Michael Moore
• The Sucker, the Sucker!
• Every Stephen King movie and miniseries, ranked

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We Love the Internet 2017/36: The Premium mediocre life of Maya Millennial edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• How YouTube perfected the feed
• Should Spotify Try to Become the ‘Netflix Of Music’? Not So Fast
• What We Get Wrong About Technology
• Facebook Figured Out My Family Secrets, And It Won’t Tell Me How
• There’s an Instagram black market where people pay thousands of dollars for verification
• In Silicon Valley, Working 9 to 5 Is for Losers
• Ev Williams on Medium’s Spotify-ish future, why publishers left, and why he changed his mind about ads
• In Our Cynical Age, No One Fails Anymore — Everybody ‘Pivots’

Reference points

• A review of Julian Assange’s favourite meme
• 8 Lessons from 20 Years of Hype Cycles
• Snapchat Content Chief Reveals Key to Creating Shows for Mobile
• Facebook Engagement for Brands and Publishers Falls 20% In 2017

Longer reads:

• The pattern problem
• The hotel room hacker
• The first social media suicide
• Inside Waymo’s Secret World for Training Self-Driving Cars
• How Big Data Saved the Mountain Town

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Despacito but it’s played on two calculators
• Reporter Left Terrified by Virtual Reality Simulator!
• Surreal Footage Of The Devastating Houston Floods From Above
• Tight fit!
• Trust Chug
• Bro’s Attempt To Launch ATV Off Cliff Goes, Uh, Off Track
• The Most Unsatisfying Video in the World ever made
• Guy Turns His Friends’ IKEA Trip Into A Nightmare With Terrible Puns

Things to look at/read:

• Let’s do lunch!
• What Would Happen If You Just Stopped Wiping Your Butt?
• Peter Dinklage also had a rap/rock band in the ’90s
• To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider the Janitors at Two Top Companies, Then and Now
• Celery Was the Avocado Toast of the Victorian Era
• “A Descent Into Madness”: An Oral History of the Fantasy Football Draft That Almost Tore Apart The Ringer
• Twin Peaks gave us a moving meditation on death
• 10 Pets That Look Like Game of Thrones Characters

Animal corner

• Vaquinha amorosa. Lovely Cow
• Two Lynx near Kokadjo Maine
• Dog is completely entranced by video of a bird.
• Noisy kittens waiting for dinner!

Tweets of the week:

• We are all living in 2017 while this kid is living in 3017
• “Look at me, im de captain now”
• When you buy Rice Crispies in South London.
• Peak LinkedIn
• this is the funniest wrong number text i’ve ever gotten
• Is it me, or are place mats at Wagamama getting bigger?
• Tesco needs to be told, their advert man has poisoned the pizza and intends to watch men die.
• …saw these pics recently and couldn’t resist

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads

• The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial
• Hunting a Killer: Sex, Drugs and the Return of Syphilis
• This Tiny Country Feeds the World
• How the aristocracy preserved their power
• The Girl Detectives
• Kushners’ China Deal Flop Was Part of Much Bigger Hunt for Cash
• 100 great works of dystopian fiction

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We Love the Internet 2017/35: The Accidental fake news experiment edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Accidental ‘Fake News’ Experiment
• ‘Link in Bio’ Keeps Instagram Nice
• Twitter has great ideas for movies – will Hollywood listen?

Reference points

• The Wonderful Evolution Of The ‘Guy Checking Out Another Girl’ Meme
• She giggles, he gallops
• How movies make money: $100m+ Hollywood blockbusters
• Did This Book Buy Its Way Onto The New York Times Bestseller List?

Longer reads:

• The Future of EA Sports Is Storytelling
• The Beginning of Uber
• Elon Musk Hates Advertising and P&G Is Listening
• Love in the Time of YouTube
• How YouTubers Like Zoella Capitalize On The Self-Care Movement
• The Next Hef: Hugh’s 25-Year-Old Son Reveals Plan to Remake Playboy “For My Generation”

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Enter Sandman in Every Genre
• This Is Why You Always Wear A Hard Hat On The Job
• How I Do Stuff With Only 5 Fingers: Dicing an Onion
• This Week I Learned to Throw Cards
• Foreign rap

Things to look at/read:

• How Kids’ Sports Became a $15 Billion Industry
• The President of Blank Sucking Nullity
• The Beloit college mindset list for the class of 2021
• What dinner time looks like across the USA
• Awful library books

Animal corner

• Happy Dog Is So Very Happy About Her New Dog Bed
• Dog advertising a burger bar in China
• あぁ！
• When I’m sad, I like to remember how capybaras are chill as hell pals with the rest of the animal kingdom
• This just instantly made today better…
• Cat Fact: From a stand still a domestic cat can jump 5 times the length of its body. Such power, such grace
• Cat is master of sneaky bunny pokes

Tweets of the week:

• Richard Madeley has gone full Alan Partridge all week on Good Morning Britain.
• boys by charli xcx but instead it’s gemma collins saying girls
• Mate, you might think it looks like Dope but to everyone else it looks like Pedo
• I like watching Rick and Morty but this guy seems to sum up all of its fans pretty well
• No, *you’re* up at 2am reading this epic doppelgänger horror thread
• If you put “Michael.” at the end of every #LookWhatYouMadeMeDo lyric it becomes the perfect Lucille Bluth quote.
• I think McGregor’s biggest problem tonight was that these three artisanal bartenders kept offering him craft cocktails.
• i took time out of my day to make this

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads

• Dick Jokes, Drunk Takes, and Best Friends: How ‘Superbad’ Was Born
• The Definitive ‘Game of Thrones’ Episode Rankings
• A Most American Terrorist: The Making of Dylann Roof
• In the future, your body won’t be buried… you’ll dissolve
• How the Voyager golden record was made

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We Love the Internet 2017/34: The If I ran a newspaper edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Silicon Valley siphons our data like oil. But the deepest drilling has just begun
• Disney’s choice
• Netflix is using the Defenders to understand its audience
• In the Land of Internet Subcultures, Try Not to Look Like a Tourist
• Why Personalization Projects Fail

Reference points

• Genius Steals presents Planning Tools & Processes
• Box Set Britain: UK’s TV and online habits revealed

Longer reads:

• If I Ran a Newspaper….
• Three days at the Microsoft Office world championships
• Yes, smartphones are destroying a generation, but not of kids
• Can Oath, the arranged media marriage of Yahoo and AOL, avoid a rough divorce?

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Fans Surprise John Cena
• Asia Beatbox Championship 2017 Solo Battle Wildcard

Things to look at/read:

• Steve Bannon believed in Trumpism. Donald Trump doesn’t.
• The agonizing, 8-page memo on how to chauffeur a congressman
• The Story of the DuckTales Theme, History’s Catchiest Single Minute of Music

Animal corner

• American Bulldog vs the dangerous Chihuahua
• take a little time out of your day to watch this
• Momma teaches her cub not to go near the water.
• solar eclipse (2017)
• A woman adopted 2 lion cubs but had to give them up to the local zoo Here’s what happened visiting them 7yrs later

Tweets of the week:

• Can’t believe Ronaldo has leaked the first six tracks on Morrissey’s new album
• The President and Vice President of the United States
• They saw an opportunity and they ran with it
• I just spent 99p for nothing from McDonald’s
• Fire golf, what could go wrong?
• guys i’ve cracked the code
• A photo caption written by someone who’s never played or even seen Pac-Man.
• I guess Peter Weller finally got his photo taken with the Greatest Shirt Of All Time

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads

• St Vincent’s cheeky, sexy rock
• This Is How Sexism Works in Silicon Valley
• Notes from a baby name obsessive
• Oprah Winfrey Is On a Roll (Again)
• The Fallout From Sportswriting’s Filthiest Fuck-Up
• Professional wrestler Booker T’s raw life

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We Love the Internet 2017/33: The Down the breitbart hole edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• How to stop professionalising ourselves to death
• ‘Raining clicks’: why we need better thinking on technology, data and journalism

Reference points

• Time traveller

Longer reads:

• Instagram’s Kevin Systrom Wants to Clean Up the Internet
• How SB Nation Profits Off An Army Of Exploited Workers
• When Silicon Valley Took Over Journalism
• Inside The Partisan Fight For Your News Feed
• We analyzed 17 months of Fox & Friends transcripts. It’s far weirder than state-run media

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Racist soap dispenser
• TWEET – The Animated Trump Parody Music Video
• Man Obliterates A Full Cord Of Wood With Double Axes
• Man suffering from horrible leg cramp.
• Garbage men fight the garbage can

Things to look at/read:

• Inside the Internet’s Obsession with “Slime” & “Oddly IKEA”: IKEA ASMR
• Punny Fantasy Football team names for every Premier League club
• How Air-Conditioning Conquered America (Even the Pacific Northwest)
• 12 Shocking Things I Learned by Working as a Butler at the Plaza Hotel

Animal corner

• A Corgi And Chicken Square Off In The Least Brutal Fight You’ll Ever See
• A Croissant-Shaped Pillow Was A Dream For This Hedgehog… Until It Became A Nightmare
• This Is, Uh, Not What You Want To See On A Hike
• the best thing you will see today
• so doggy school exists and this little guy is so excited to go

Tweets of the week:

• it’s 2017 grandpa we eat ass now
• I don’t know who originally came up ‘super callous fragile racist sexist nazi POTUS’), but I’d like to buy them a pint
• HISTORY OF US PRESIDENTS:
• “Tell Cersei. I want her to know it was me.”
• 1980: “I bet there will be flying cars in the future” 2017:
• The shameful legacy of Bullseye continues to blight our streets.
• no twitter drama will ever compare to my own father subtweeting me into the ground

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads

• Down the Breitbart Hole
• The Toxic Drama on YA Twitter
• Julian Assange, a man without a country
• To Catch a Counterfeiter
• Why do stars like Adele keep losing their voice?
• Unlearning the myth of American innocence
• Why we fell for clean eating

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We Love the Internet 2017/32: The How Instagram stories have changed dating forever edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• How Instagram Stories Have Changed Dating Forever
• How to End Google’s Monopoly
• We Need to Talk About Digital Blackface in Reaction GIFs
• So, about this Googler’s manifesto.
• Segregated Valley: the ugly truth about Google and diversity in tech
• What do we talk about when we talk about Content (and media)?
• Capitalism the Apple Way vs. Capitalism the Google Way

Reference points

• Ten years ago
• A pretty long thread of some of my favourite innovative interactive narrative work lately

Longer reads:

• Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
• This Is How Your Fear and Outrage Are Being Sold for Profit
• This Is Probably The Only Story You Didn’t Hear About First From Bradd Jaffy And Kyle Griffin
• Can you trust the mainstream media?
• You are the product
• Firefox fights back
• How Two Brothers Turned Seven Lines of Code Into a $9.2 Billion Startup

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• H3VR Zero-G Akimbo Reloads Perfected!
• The History of Movie Title Sequences
• #Despacito with snoring
• Arrested Rebellion: Ron Howard’s Han Solo
• When you want to play solos like slash but your parents made you learn piano
• What Makes John Bonham Such a Good Drummer?

Things to look at/read:

• Our Broken Economy, in One Simple Chart
• The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
• Why Do Rich People Love Endurance Sports?
• Death of a F***ing Salesman
• A 100-tweet thread that will probs make most ppl in their 30s and 40s rethink their perspective on ALL relationships.

Animal corner

• This golden retriever can’t catch anything…
• Look, it’s Fiona the baby hippo!
• Elephant vs Goose
• Baby Goat Loves Ball
• Maybe Don’t Piss Off A Group Of Dead Leaf Mantises
• She trained her dog to block her head during a seizure, we don’t deserve dogs
• well this is highly satisfying

Tweets of the week:

• This actually is the worst opinion I’ve ever heard though
• I hereby call to order this meeting of the John Slattery Appreciation Society
• A concise argument for copy editors.
• i must go, my planet needs me
• Oh good god, no.
• Hey kid sorry your parents are straight up idiots but this was funny
• clare balding. just watched someone be gunned down on a pier.
• Sure, they had search high and low to find a jury who don’t hate Martin Shkreli. The sketch artist? Not held to the same standards

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads

• I joined a cult for four years and lost $1m. But maybe in the end I won.
• Why Are There No New Major Religions?
• Sunday Reads: The Filmography Of Jason Statham
• Film Crit Hulk SMASH: On Criticism In The Intersectional Age
• Aziz Ansari on Quitting the Internet, Loneliness, and Season 3 of Master of None
• What is a black professor in America allowed to say?
• Losing It in the Anti-Dieting Age

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We Love the Internet 2017/31: The Gillingham’s answer to 2 Fast 2 Furious edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• People Have Come Up With A Shameless Way To Generate Massive Video View Counts On Facebook
• Netflix is on the hook for $20 billion. Can it keep spending its way to success?
• Thousands of women try to make a living blogging and vlogging. Most fail.
• Why a Toaster Is a Design Triumph
• The Algorithm That Makes Preschoolers Obsessed With YouTube
• Turn off your notifications. All of them.
• Only crap marketers mistake stereotypes for segments

Reference points

• Tech’s most dubious promises, from Bill Gates to Elon Musk
• Analyzing the Gender Representation of 34,476 Comic Book Characters
• The future of fake news: don’t believe everything you read, see or hear

Longer reads:

• For the New Far Right, YouTube Has Become the New Talk Radio
• South Park raised a generation of trolls
• The Worst Internet In America
• Zoë and the Trolls
• How to Make a Movie Out of Anything — Even a Mindless Phone Game

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Gillingham’s Answer To 2 Fast 2 Furious
• I’ve got a text! Love Island text message montage
• The sound illusion that makes Dunkirk so intense
• edgar wright and simon pegg on writing
• Don’t Stop Halfway Down A Waterslide. Just Don’t.

Things to look at/read:

• Why Americans Get Conned Again and Again
• The state of the boy band in 2017
• Norway anti-immigrant group mistakes bus seats for Muslim women in burkas
• The Stone Cold Stunner Is The Most Important Wrestling Move Of All Time
• Roger Ebert’s Zero-Star Movies
• How the fantasy of Peter Pan turned sinister
• People Who Tried to Take Panorama Shots and Ended Up Opening the Gates of Hell
• Nightmarish panoramic photo fails from across the internet

Animal corner

• the most normal thing in 2017 so far
• ok, this gif made my entire evening.
• This morning I’ve learned that the Otters See a Butterfly video is significantly improved by the addition of some Shostakovich.
• This is how an orphaned kangaroo goes to bed
• Cant believe how close i got to a deer!

Tweets of the week:

• When Theresa May met Justin Trudeau
• Any kid who finishes like this is a savage
• Mooch vs Reince
• BRUH WHY DIDNT YALL TELL ME THE NIGHT KING WAS SO SASSY
• New York reacts to magic! ( part 1)
• When the office water coolers get married.
• Her: I need me a man who can cook.. Me:
• Theresa May’s knee looks like Donald Trump. Pass it on.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads

• How ‘Sharknado’ Casts Its C-Listers and Nearly Landed Trump as President
• Why the scariest nuclear threat may be coming from inside the White House
• Strippers, Insane Asylums, Assassination, and Termites: Inside the Insane History of the World’s Greatest White House Replica
• Jon Ronson on bespoke porn: ‘Nothing is too weird. We consider all requests’
• Why I revisited every place I’ve ever lived

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