Part 1: For the day job
Things to think about:
- What the long-form backlash is all about
- The winter of our discontent – another perspective on the cresting stream article from the 14/01 edition
- What is a million likes worth?
- Social media responsibility – a professional baseball player on being in the public eye
- Is Yahoo! even worth trying to save?
Reference points
- Debunking Princeton – great response from Facebook to a somewhat flawed academic study
- Google’s Ray Kurzweil predicts how the world will change
- Downworthy – A browser plugin to turn hyperbolic viral headlines into what they really mean
- This six things that make stories go viral will amaze and maybe infuriate you – New Yorker on the Upworthyness
- A history of Gawker, by Reddit
Longer reads:
- Look Out, Television: Google Goes For The Biggest Advertising Prize Of All
- Facebook Turns 10: The Mark Zuckerberg Interview
- Sad YouTube: The Lost Treasures Of The Internet’s Greatest Cesspool
Part 2: For the lunch-break
Things to watch/listen to/play with:
- Jubilee Line Ticket Barrier Sings Blur’s Song 2
- Which obscure member of a Britpop band are you? – I’m some guy from Reef
- The Quietus Writers’ 50 Favourite Dance Remixes
- 8 bit renditions of well-known songs
- 54 jokes in four minutes
- The world’s tallest waterslide
This week on Tumblr:
- Tate Collectives –this is really good
- Who is Henry Kelly? Going for Gold nostalgia
- Metal albums with googly eyes
- Critical hand gestures
- Animals sitting on capybaras
Things to look at:
- Stuntmen from old films
- Fake signs in London underground
- 11 insane movie props you can buy on eBay right now
- More than 500 ‘confess’ to having drugs after police tweet
Animal corner:
- Bass players holding big dogs – in the same vein as bass dogs from the 2013/33 edition
- This dog is innocent
- Seal of approval
Tweets of the week:
- 1994 vs 2014 pic.twitter.com/Zg191VVokx
- look it’s an ewok! pic.twitter.com/VVlvuKPyg7
- DO NOT MESS WITH THIS COPY MACHINE pic.twitter.com/p3ZMasx1al
- They see me rollin’… they laughin’… pic.twitter.com/WZXyWQOYD8
- Cross your eyes and see what happens. pic.twitter.com/pLVqKwDhRw
Part 3: For the weekend
Long-form articles:
- Steve McQueen interviews Kanye West
- A Revolution, With Guitars: How The Beatles Changed Everything – 50 years since they first went to America
- Sex and the single tween – could be a worrying article for parents
- No second chance for Stephen Glass: The long, strange downfall of a journalistic wunderkind
- Almost everything in Dr Strangelove was true
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