Willkommen in der Zukunft, in der sleeke Apps die News fixen wollen und sich zwischen Publisher und Publikum klemmen. In der einige wenige creators den Kuchen alleine essen. Und in der immer Tag eins ist.
Medien
The Next Big Thing in Podcasts is Talking Back (Si apre in una nuova finestra): Poll, Q&As, and comment sections could turn podcasting interactive.
The New York Times Is Building a New Audio Product (Si apre in una nuova finestra) 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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra). 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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra): 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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra). 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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra). 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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra): In der DLF-Presseschau stört kein origineller Gedanke die gepflegte Langeweile.
Behind SmartNews (Si apre in una nuova finestra), 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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra): a job description.
Long
Day One at the Every: An Excerpt From Dave Eggers’ New Novel (Si apre in una nuova finestra). 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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra). 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« (Si apre in una nuova finestra)—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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra) 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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra). 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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra): Introducing a subgenre of American action movies depicting state-surveillance, espionage, network technologies, and perpetual motion.
Crypto
The Internet of Grift (Si apre in una nuova finestra). NFTs are an even more insidious form of grift than regular crypto products.
Katastrope
The climate disaster is here. (Si apre in una nuova finestra) 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? (Si apre in una nuova finestra) 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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra) Written a Week or So After a Very Damning IPCC Climate Report. In Which Lucas Mann Considers the Lives to Come.
Hacking
LifeTrac 6 (Si apre in una nuova finestra): Ein Open-Source-Traktor. »This insane freak purrs like a cat and rips the ground. Major success.«
The Framework Laptop (Si apre in una nuova finestra) 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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra) gab.
Internet Explorer
Sell! Sell! Sell! (Si apre in una nuova finestra) 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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra)
Flippory (Si apre in una nuova finestra): Software and process relating to the flipping, mirroring, cropping, and replicating of images or parts of images in the pursuit of reinformation.
Strava Art (Si apre in una nuova finestra) 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? (Si apre in una nuova finestra) Ein langer Reddit-Thread für regnerische Herbstabende, down the rabbit hole.
Unicode Calendar Generator (Si apre in una nuova finestra) 📅
Das war Ausgabe #79 von THEFUTURE (Si apre in una nuova finestra), dem Newsletter über das wilde Internet und die Zukunft der Medien von Ole Reißmann (Si apre in una nuova finestra).
