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We Love the Internet 2025/32: The I’m done with social media edition Part 1: For the day job Things to think about: A Naked Attempt at Saving Comedy Can Paramount Pivot to Big Tech? David Ellison Outlines His Silicon Valley Vision Reference points: 2025 Big Picture …

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We Love the Internet 2025/31: The Inside the media’s traffic apocalypse edition Part 1: For the day job Things to think about: Inside the Media’s Traffic Apocalypse Reference points: The Seven Modes of Modern Marketing Longer reads: How the Attention Economy Is Devouring Gen Z…

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We Love the Internet 2025/30: The What’s happening to reading edition Part 1: For the day job Things to think about: What’s happened to reading? The Wet History of Media in the Bathroom AI is here to stay The Website at the End of the Internet Reference points:…

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We Love the Internet 2025/29: The Are we in the post-follower era of social edition Part 1: For the day job Things to think about: Are We in the Post-Follower Era of Social? The résumé is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun Reference points: The Best Stunts of All Time, Over …

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We Love the Internet 2025/28: The next disruption of media edition Part 1: For the day job Things to think about: Can the New York Times Turn Its Writers Into Video Stars? ‘The Naked Gun’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Summer He’s a Master of Outrage on X. The…

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We Love the Internet 2025/27: The How YouTube won the living room edition Part 1: For the day job Things to think about: How YouTube Won the Living Room Fake, AI-generated videos about the Diddy trial are raking in millions of views on YouTube Reference points: AI 2027 F…

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We Love the Internet 2025/26: The Who cares era edition Part 1: For the day job Things to think about: The who cares era Airbnb Is in Midlife Crisis Mode What if Making Cartoons Becomes 90% Cheaper? A lesson for the West? Japan was better prepared than …

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We Love the Internet 2025/24: The Everything millennial is cool again edition Part 1: For the day job Things to think about: Battle of the Cool Kids: Inside the A24, Neon and Mubi Turf War Songwriters Who Unknowingly Signed Away Their Rights Finally Get a Real Second Chance:…

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We Love the Internet 2025/22: The Social media is no longer social edition Part 1: For the day job Things to think about: Social media is no longer social The Most Valuable Commodity in the World is Friction Why Everyone Wants to Get Into the Criterion Closet The Made-for…

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We Love the Internet 2025/21: The Every Time Norm Peterson Enters the Bar edition Part 1: For the day job Things to think about: With Cord Cut, Can Old TV Brands Take Off On Streaming? Broadcast Schedule’s New Paradigm: How 8 PM Became “The Best Time Period On TV For Live Viewin…

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We Love the Internet 2025/20: The How London became the new Hollywood edition Part 1: For the day job Things to think about: How London Became the New Hollywood Cringe! How millennials became uncool How Gen Z Became the Most Gullible Generation How Ezra Klein’s YouTube Makeo…

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We Love the Internet 2025/19: The Millennial canon bracket edition Part 1: For the day job Things to think about: When Did Prestige TV Get This Grim? Why Netflix Had to Redesign Its Homepage In the age of slop, craft is rebellion Reference points: The Millennial C…

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We Love the Internet 2025/18: The Are you happy with how you watch TV edition Part 1: For the day job Things to think about: ‘Views’ are lies Say hello to the WWE-ification of marketing “You wouldn’t steal a car” anti-piracy campaign may have used pirated fonts ChatGPT Wasn’…

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We Love the Internet 2025/17: The How to leak to a journalist edition Part 1: For the day job Things to think about: The New Substack Universe What was Quartz? Reference points: How to leak to a journalist Pixar’s 22 rules of storytelling adapted for UX Behind the Ca…

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We Love the Internet 2025/16: The Aspect ratios edition Part 1: For the day job Things to think about: What Does Spoiler Culture Look Like Now? ‘The Last of Us’ Is Where We Find Out. Social Media Shorts Are the New TV Guide How One Book Single Handedly …

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We Love the Internet 2025/15: The Ghosted generation edition Part 1: For the day job Things to think about: The ghosted generation Podcasts as lorecasts Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino Where do you get your ideas from? Jen Salke’s Exit Won’t Fi…

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We Love the Internet 2025/14: The Too many trends edition Part 1: For the day job Things to think about: Too many trends! Angelina Jolie Was Right About Computers Gen Z is falling in love with the charm and ‘cringe’ of millennials The limits o…

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We Love the Internet 2025/13: The Morning routines, banana facials and Saratoga water edition Part 1: For the day job Things to think about: Elon Musk Has Become Too Toxic for YouTube The 2025 box office is off to a terrible start. Is the problem supply or demand? We ran the wrong headline …

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We Love the Internet 2025/12: The Apple innovation and execution edition Part 1: For the day job Things to think about: Apple innovation and execution SXSX 2025: Key Trends Reference points: Do Netflix Movies Have Longevity or Quickly Fade Into Obscurity? Onomatopoeia o…

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We Love the Internet 2025/11: The Future childless cat guys edition Part 1: For the day job Things to think about: License to Shill: Inside Amazon’s 007 Takeover Apple AI’s Platform Pivot Potential Reference points: The museum of all things The 100 Greatest TV Perf…

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We Love the Internet 2025/10: The editorial battles that made the New Yorker edition Part 1: For the day job Things to think about: The ‘Wayback Machine’ is preserving the websites Trump’s White House took down Nicole Kidman Worked With 19 Female Directors in Eight Years After Vowi…

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We Love the Internet 2025/09: The Duolingo’s not-so-secret sauce to virality edition Part 1: For the day job Things to think about: Duolingo’s not-so-secret sauce to virality Learning from my mistakes Big Tech’s Other Big Battle Is for the Box Netflix is building an anti-Disn…

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Big Boys stuck the landing, such a good show. Here for the Patrick Wolf renaissance.

We Love the Internet 2025/08: The Why North England is poor edition Part 1: For the day job Things to think about: Netflix won the streaming wars, and we’re all about to pay for it Quartz Is Publishing AI-Generated Articles Based on Other AI Slop, Along With Warnin…

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We Love the Internet 2025/07: The Quality is a serious problem edition Part 1: For the day job Things to think about: Who’s Watching What on TV? Who’s to Say? Is This Weird Dome the Future of Watching Sports? Ten Years In A Crumbling Industry Tesla Dojo: Elon Musk’s b…

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We Love the Internet 2025/06: The Anti-social century edition Part 1: For the day job Things to think about: Social Media Is for Consuming Disasters, Not Surviving Them On DeepSeek and Export Controls Losing It on Live TV Video game publishers are starting to…

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We Love the Internet 2025/05: The Timothée Chalamet goes bro edition Part 1: For the day job Things to think about: They Used to Love Elon Musk. Now They’re His Biggest Enemies Online. AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt Refe…

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A three film cinema trip where one film (with intermission) was 45 mins longer than the other two combined

We Love the Internet 2025/04: The Empire of blood edition Part 1: For the day job Things to think about: ‘The Rizzler’ and the Creeping Childishness of Pop Culture Twelve Dudes and a Hype Tunnel: Scenes from the ‘Super Bowl for Excel Nerds’ Docs Under MAG…

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We Love the Internet 2025/03: The Against optimisation edition Part 1: For the day job Things to think about: Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good Why Do TV Title Sequences Have So Much … Stuff? Meta surrenders to the right on speech The Typography Maest…

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