Medien
- The Next Big Thing in Podcasts is Talking Back: Poll, Q&As, and comment sections could turn podcasting interactive.
- The New York Times Is Building a New Audio Product designed to help you understand the most important stories of the day. It includes news, opinion, narrative storytelling and more.
- True Crime Is Rotting Our Brains. I would sooner get stabbed again than have someone make a podcast about me.
- Flipboard’s on a mission to be the internet’s best recommendation engine: By leaning into curation and creators, the app is trying to turn from news to everything people care about.
- The creator economy is failing to spread the wealth. It turns out that a small portion of creators still reap the most revenue for their work across multiple platforms.
- Inside the utterly bizarre analytics of Ozy. Read to the end for an extremely unfortunate haircut video. Bisschen nerdig, aber rückblickend hätte schon früher jemand sagen müssen, dass das alles großer Quatsch ist.
- Deutschlandfunk-Ritual: In der DLF-Presseschau stört kein origineller Gedanke die gepflegte Langeweile.
- Behind SmartNews, the $2 billion unicorn trying to fix the news algorithm. Two Japanese programmers, a horde of English teachers and a dose of idealism created a surprise hit.
- The editor-in-chief of the future: a job description.
Long

- Day One at the Every: An Excerpt From Dave Eggers’ New Novel. Die Fortsetzung von »The Circle«, was ein eher plattes Buch war, aus dem ein dummer Film wurde. Aber alles sehr erfolgreich. Menschen gucken ja auch »Black Mirror« und halten das für geistreich. Wird in Deutschland besonders gut funktionieren, weil hier Bücher noch auf Papier gelesen und das wahre Leben ohne Internet im Wald stattfindet.
- Leave no trace: how a teenage hacker lost himself online. Edwin Robbe had a troubled life, but found excitement and purpose by joining an audacious community of hackers. Then the real world caught up with his online activities
- »Hacker X«—the American who built a pro-Trump fake news empire—unmasks himself. He was hired to build a fake news op but now wants to put things right.
- Correspondences from the Edges ist die vierte Ausgabe von Ding, a magazine about the Internet and things.
- The Astronomer Who’s About to See the Skies of Other Earths. After the ultra-powerful James Webb Space Telescope launches later this year, Laura Kreidberg will lead two efforts to check the weather on rocky planets orbiting other stars.
- Nokiawave: Introducing a subgenre of American action movies depicting state-surveillance, espionage, network technologies, and perpetual motion.
Crypto
- The Internet of Grift. NFTs are an even more insidious form of grift than regular crypto products.
Katastrope
- The climate disaster is here. Wie viele aufrüttelnde Doomsday-Szenarien brauchen wir noch? Der Guardian hat hier seine Seite sogar düster eingefärbt und zeigt, wo überall was passiert. Hitze! Extremwetter! Feuer! Flut! Ernteausfälle! Wie schlimm ist es wirklich? »Five Hiroshima atomic bombs dropping into the water every second.«
- Is Sucking Carbon Out of the Air the Solution to Our Climate Crisis? Or just another Big Oil boondoggle? Spoiler: »The machines needed to suck up 10 billion tons of CO2 each year would consume more than half the world’s current energy supply.«
- An Essay About Tiny, Spectacular Futures Written a Week or So After a Very Damning IPCC Climate Report. In Which Lucas Mann Considers the Lives to Come.
Hacking
- LifeTrac 6: Ein Open-Source-Traktor. »This insane freak purrs like a cat and rips the ground. Major success.«
- The Framework Laptop is now shipping! Finally, a high-performance, thin and light notebook designed to last. Sieht ein bisschen nach MacBook aus, aber für Bastler, die Komponenten sollen sich ziemlich einfach selbst tauschen lassen. Supergute Idee, die es schon mal so ähnlich für Smartphones gab.
Internet Explorer
- Sell! Sell! Sell! Capitalism ramped up in the 21st century, and if you're not selling, you're losing. Here are some products that won capitalism.
- 🎧 Two Two Two Two to Tou-lou-se
- Flippory: Software and process relating to the flipping, mirroring, cropping, and replicating of images or parts of images in the pursuit of reinformation.
- Strava Art is made using your GPS computer to create a picture of your activity whether it's cycling, running, swimming, walking, hiking, skiing... anything really!
- What useful unknown website do you wish more people knew about? Ein langer Reddit-Thread für regnerische Herbstabende, down the rabbit hole.
- Map Projection Playground
- Unicode Calendar Generator 📅
- 📺 »students are starting to steal each other's notes with iOS 15 and it's... kind of genius«
15.10.2021
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