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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?
Gaby Goldberg • Curators All the Way Down

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
