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Taking an Internet Walk

five seconds of footage, a mini-movie. In his old dorm room Wong had struck one-hit viral gold, but these days YouTube felt like a place where dedicated posting could bring in dedicated audiences. YouTube’s algorithms and money could reward the time and energy sunk into their mini-movies—at least for now.

Mark Bergen • Like, Comment, Subscribe

On another level, the story of the New Internet is a story of individuals and their psychologies. Over the last decade, technology workers have opened themselves up to a tremendous amount of value drift (the process in which previously steadfast values are compromised over time).

Bryan Lehrer • What Happened to the New Internet?

So it’s fitting that exactly a decade later, we’ve come to another watershed moment. Software has eaten the world, and now it’s a commodity. It’s not about the technology anymore. The era of the engineer has ended; the era of the curator has begun.

Gaby Goldberg • Curators All the Way Down

The Money Always Goes Up: Or, Escape from the Hacker Class

Tara McMullin whatworks.fyi

This is about the industrialization of writing. It is about the code (the writing) which shapes how we use it, the data (another form of writing) which we generate in doing so, and the way in which that data is used to shape (write) us.

Richard Seymour • The Twittering Machine

Roadmap: Curating the internet

Bessemer Venture Partners bvp.com

Paywall for individual contributors: This is an area with the most innovation over the last five years as creators look to get paid. If Patreon is a digital tip jar, Substack is a Stratechery-in-a-box.

Michael Rothman • All The Ways To Make Money In Media Without Ads

Mother Earth Mother Board

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