We Love the Internet 2014/52: The Year consensus died edition

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:

• If paintings could text
• Photographs rendered in play-doh

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.
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Part 3: For the holidays

Reference points:

• 50 browser based games to play
• A free PC game – currently Sim City 2000

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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