We Love the Internet 2018/21: The Promise of vaping edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• A Mother Wants the Internet to Forget Italy’s Most Viral Sex Tape
• Magazine publishers with video ambitions see YouTube as safer bet than Facebook
• Katzenberg’s NewTV Video Startup Raises $800 Million
• It’s A Good Time To Be A Reporter Covering Trump If You Like Money And Going On TV
• Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web
• Body Con Job
• Why ‘Stories’ Took Over Your Smartphone
• Unbundling The Song: Inside The Next Wave Of Recorded Music’s Disruption

Reference points:

• The Missing Building Blocks of the Web
• Welcome to the most Instagrammable museum on earth
• Read the 100 List
• A #HistoryofSocialMedia

Longer reads:

• Inside The Ecosystem That Fuels Amazon’s Fake Review Problem

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Iconic Vines in Fortnite
• Meet the Happiest Guy in the World
• sharpest ice kitchen knife in the world
• Pilot Steps onto Moving Ship
• the world’s deepest lotus
• A Michelin-Starred Meal for $1.50
• Making Counterfeit Bananas
• Crashing a Z4 on the Day You Buy It

Things to look at/read:

• An Enraged Woman Pooped And Threw It At Employees At A Tim Horton’s
• The CIA made a Magic: The Gathering-style card game for training agents, and we played it
• The Race To Stop The Best Mario Kart 64 Player From Securing Every World Record
• The white woman who called the cops on a black Yale student is waking the US to an ugly truth
• I Went to a Flat Earth Convention to Meet Flat Earthers Like My Mom

Animal corner:

• Like a boss.
• Dog FREAKS when she realizes she’s going to Vet

Tweets of the week:

• lemme bless y’all with this video
• When dads get involved with sports day
• Lion all messy Lion all richie
• Let’s call the whole thing off
• Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
• Wow

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The promise of Vaping and the rise of Juul
• The Life Of One Of America’s Bloodiest Hitmen
• Driven to Despair
• Are We Ready for Robot Sex?
• Japan’s rent-a-family industry
• The spectacular power of Big Lens
• How #MeToo revealed the central rift within feminism today

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