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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