Season’s greetings from the internet.
Part 1: For the day job
Things to think about:
- The Year Consensus Died: 2014 and the Baffling Post–‘Breaking Bad’ Television Universe
- The state of consumer technology at the end of 2014
- How YouTube MCNs are Conquering Hollywood
- Two eras of the internet: pull and push
- Morgan Stanley Analysts Try GoPro, Discover Their Lives Are Boring
- How Hollywood’s toxic (and worsening) addiction to franchises changed movies forever in 2014
- The pilots of Instagram: beautiful views from the cockpit, violating rules of the air
Reference points:
- The 2015 predictions bucket
- Content, Forever – meandering essays created by algorithm
- Fundamental plot arcs, seen through multidimensional analysis of thousands of TV and movie scripts
- Malcolm Gladwell gets fact-checked
- The top apps of Homescreen users
- Anachronism finder
- The 85 Most Disruptive Ideas in Our History
2014 lists:
- The year of outrage – everything we were angry about in 2014
- The 50 Most Shared Facebook Posts Of 2014
- Google year in search
- 2014 year on Twitter
- Facebook year in review
- Tumblr year in review
- The 25 Best Inventions of 2014
Longer reads:
- Reading in the age of Amazon
- How I grew up on the internet
- Inside the Buzz-Fueled Media Startups Battling for Your Attention
- The Troll Hunters
- YouTube’s Chief, Hitting a New ‘Play’ Button
- The future of digital – latest Business Insider slide deck
- 10 trends for 2015 and 10 more – slideshare presentations
Part 2: For the lunch-break
Things to play with/watch:
- NZ news reporter with an uncensored retort to a heckler
- The subconscious menu
- Jimmy Fallon Laughing & Clapping
- Super-fast card packing
Things to look at/read:
- The Most Astonishing Photos That Won Awards In 2014
- Most decade-specific words in Billboard song titles
- 19 Times “Family Feud” Contestants Spoke The Damn Truth
- 28 Individuals Who Failed And Failed Damn Hard
- The 26 Most ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Things That Happened In 2014
- 18 Badass Women You Probably Didn’t Hear About In 2014
Animal corner:
- Excited puppy spots its owner
- Drone vs. kangaroo
- Derby the dog: Running on 3D Printed Prosthetics
- Doug the Pug – All I Want For Christmas Is Food
- Denver the guilty dog strikes again
- The 50 Cutest Things That Happened This Year
- The 41 Most Awkward Cats Of 2014
This week on Tumblr:
Tweets of the week:
- Possibly the best screen capture of recent times.
- Time to wheel out the two greatest tweets of 2014.
- FFS Floppy
- Here you go. My favourite tweets of the year, in no particular order.
- C̫͖͎̆̈ ̪̺̻̆̂̂͂̈ͅY̖͈̖ͨ̓̀ͤͤ̚ ̙̠͙͕̲͎̖̂B̬̈́̆̑ ̰̪̙̜͉̞̺͋͂ͣ͐̚Ḛ̱̱̝̱ͥͭ̅ͮ͗̚ ̲̖̜̊̚R͉̰̯͇ͮͬ̐ ̬̭̫͙̳̀̇̍̄̊̐W͉̠̽A̎ͩ̋ ͈͙R̮̣̞͍͈͕ͩ́ͧ̄̋̋̍
Part 3: For the holidays
Reference points:
Longer pop culture articles:
- Three decades of photo-journalism
- The Economist essay on suburbs
- How Darude’s “Sandstorm” Became the EDM Track Everyone on the Web Knows
- Afghanistan: The Making of a Narco State
- What is graphene for?
- Vanity Fair profile of Tony Blair
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