We Love the Internet 2019/49: The Links of the decade edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• ITV News turns to Instagrammers to build a brand and bulletin fit for teenagers
• Why you shouldn’t fear the gray tsunami
• Why I regret inventing the innocent smoothie brand
• The perils of Netflix’s rumored password sharing crackdown
• Why 1m readers (and a few Illuminati conspiracists) buy into The Economist’s predictions
• 2019 Marked the End of a Television Era—and the Beginning of a New One
• Baby Yodas don’t come cheap: The streaming wars will cost Disney, Netflix, and WarnerMedia $16 billion
• From sitcoms to satire: How comedy is becoming news

Reference points:

• Links of the decade
• 16 incredibly useful things you didn’t know YouTube could do
• Netflix tracks shows by measuring ‘starters,’ ‘watchers,’ and ‘completers’

Longer reads:

• This Was the Decade That Spoiler Culture Changed Everything
• The journalist as influencer: how we sell ourselves on social media
• How to Sell Drugs and Influence Everyone on Instagram
• Gabrielle Union Criticized the Culture at America’s Got Talent. Now She’s No Longer There.
• Inside the Phone Company Secretly Run By Drug Traffickers
• I Worked for Alex Jones. I Regret It.
• We spent 10 years talking to people. Here’s what it taught us about Britain
• The Transformation of Condé Nast

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• YouTube Rewind 2019: For the Record
• Wholesome Drunk intruder
• Boy Realises How Hard Shovelling Snow Is

Things to look at/read:

• All hail The Blob, the intelligent slime mould confounding science
• Power-hungry data centres are here to stay – what does that mean for Ireland’s renewable targets?
• Our Skulls Are Out-Evolving Us
• How Tegan and Sara Defeated Scalpers & Embraced Their Fans With ‘Rush Seating’ Concept
• I celebrated Native American Heritage Month by ruining a comedy podcast
• Jamie Hewlett: That’s all drawing is really, just putting some lines in the right place
• This Couple’s Spectacular Engagement Photo Fail Has Gone Viral

Animal corner:

• Just doin some pawttery…
• Here is a thread of dogs who destroyed Thanksgiving dinner
• Okay folks, we have a contest!
• This is a good camera operator. Yes he is.
• “black cats aren’t popular as pets because they aren’t good for Instagram photos”

Tweets of the week:

• you asked for it – here are the most iconic British TV moments of the decade (2010-2019)
• You can tell these Christmas lights are British because Setting 8 suggests you might have become over-excited by the first 7 settings & need to damn well get a grip of yourself.
• She just threw like 8 different tweet formats in a blender and this what she got back
• Naughts and baldys
• Every Mom on Christmas morning watching you open presents:
• Say it ain’t so I will not go Turn the lights off Carry me home
• Jack Nicholson is living my dream life

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Portrait of an Inessential Government Worker
• Uber’s existential crisis
• The Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code
• How liberalism became ‘the god that failed’ in eastern Europe
• Why do people hate vegans?
• The Untold Story of the 2018 Olympics Cyberattack, the Most Deceptive Hack in History
• My own private Iceland
• Adam Driver, the Original Man

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