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Hurley flipped through flattering stats: eighty million videos watched a day; more than two million videos uploaded; 60 percent of all online video in the United States piped through YouTube. He showed Google Video’s number: 17 percent.

Mark Bergen • Like, Comment, Subscribe

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taylorpearson.me • The Illegible Margin: Profiting From the Gap Between the Map and the Territory

In its variety, the Substack corpus resembles the blogosphere. It is produced by a mix of career journalists, bloggers, specialists, novelists, hobbyists, dabblers, and white-collar professionals looking to plump up their personal brands. The company has tried to recruit high-profile writers, offering (to a select few) health-care stipends, design ... See more

Anna Wiene • Is Substack the Media Future We Want?

Fuller is something of a philosopher of digital design; his podcast “Scratching the Surface” canvasses experts in the field. In the past decade, he argues, a “user-centered” approach to design has been replaced by what he has taken to calling a “corporation-centered” approach. Rather than optimizing for the user’s experience, it optimizes for the e... See more

Kyle Chayka • Why I Finally Quit Spotify | the New Yorker

Should the human fashion editor tell you what to like or should it be the algorithmic machine, in the form of the Amazon bookstore, Spotify feed, or Netflix home page? That is the central dilemma of culture in Filterworld.

The former option is mercurial and driven by elite gatekeepers, a powerful group built up over a century of modern cultural ind

The internet both helped and hurt journalism

Chris Best • Unbundling Journalism | Chris Best on Venture Stories

Page named Harris to the newly invented position of “product philosopher.” But then: Nothing much changed. In a 2016 profile in the Atlantic, Harris blamed the lack of changes to the “inertia” of the organization and a lack of clarity about what he was advocating.

Cal Newport • Digital Minimalism

Facebook, again, is the extreme example here: the service got started with user-generated content and has continually retrenched over the last few years to have more user-generated content and less professionally produced content; every time they have done so, publishers have cried foul over all of the traffic they were losing. Google, meanwhile, d... See more

Ben Thompson • Media, Regulators, and Big Tech; Indulgences and Injunctions; Better Approaches

Another example: Ben Thompson, creator of the Stratechery newsletter

Anthony Pompliano • Writing for Leverage, Teenage Billionaires, The Problem with Mainstream Media, and More - David Perell on Off the Chain, Hosted By Anthony Pompliano • Podcast Notes