Die Zeit der Listen, der Rückblicke, der Vorschauen ist gekommen – und THEFUTURE lässt sich davon gerne mitreißen.
Dieses Woche: Was die Innovationsbereiche der Süddeutschen künftig beschäftigt und worauf die Businessweek-Redaktion dieses Jahr neidisch war. Außerdem viel Spaß mit Blockchains und falsche Vögel. Viel Spaß!
Journalismus
Was formt die Zukunft des Journalismus? (Si apre in una nuova finestra) Fünf Entwicklungen und die dazugehörigen Begriffe, die das neue Jahr prägen werden – garantiert ohne Hypes. Vom Innovationsbereich der Süddeutschen Zeitung a.k.a. Dirk von Gehlen und Johannes Klingebiel.
NiemanLab Predictions for 2022 (Si apre in una nuova finestra): Each year, we ask some of the smartest people in journalism and media what they think is coming in the next 12 months. At the end of a trying 2021, here’s what they had to say.
Businessweek's 2021 Jealousy List (Si apre in una nuova finestra): We read—a lot. We also listen to podcasts and watch a ton of stuff (often with borrowed passwords). Sometimes we read, watch, or listen to something that we wish we had published. To recognize a job well done, the magazine’s staff and many of our contributors in the Bloomberg newsroom have compiled our annual yearend Jealousy List. Congratulations to those on this year’s list, we hate/love you.
First look: Inside The New York Times' audio app. (Si apre in una nuova finestra)
The Oral History of Apartamento (Si apre in una nuova finestra): The inside story of everyone's favorite interiors magazine.
Courant
Birds Aren’t Real, or Are They? (Si apre in una nuova finestra) Inside a Gen Z Conspiracy Theory. Taylor Lorenz ist eigentlich noch freigestellt für ihr Buchprojekt, ist aber zum Glück für diese Geschichte kurz aufgetaucht: »Peter McIndoe, the 23-year-old creator of the viral Birds Aren’t Real movement, is ready to reveal what the effort is really about.«
We Eat at The Worst Michelin Starred Restaurant, Ever (Si apre in una nuova finestra): »It was just dinner theater. No, scratch that. Because dinner was not involved.«
When asked for comment, a Bros' rep responded with the following extremely on-brand »Declaration by Chef Floriano Pellegrino,« (Si apre in una nuova finestra) which we are reprinting in its entirety.
What Comes Next for an Artist Whose Work Goes Viral? (Si apre in una nuova finestra) With the animated video series »2 Lizards,« Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki captured the essence of 2020. Now, Bennani’s at work on a documentary about living in limbo.
»Indie Sleaze« and »Internet Awesomesauce« (Si apre in una nuova finestra): Meet the woman schooling TikTok on niche aesthetics. Melina Bee is the internet’s historical microaesthetics whisperer.
Millions of Followers? (Si apre in una nuova finestra) For Book Sales, »It’s Unreliable.« Social-media fandom can help authors score book deals and bigger advances, but does it translate to how a new title will sell? Publishers are increasingly skeptical.
I’m the TikTok Couch Guy. (Si apre in una nuova finestra) Here’s What It Was Like Being Investigated on the Internet.
Weekly Filet Gem Shuffle (Si apre in una nuova finestra): Scroll, search, shuffle. Just updated the archive. It now contains 1911 gems from the past 10+ years. If you ever need something great to read, watch, listen to, I've got you covered.
Nerd-ish
Five Reasons You Should Delete Telegram from Your Phone (Si apre in una nuova finestra): The messaging app markets itself as a better alternative to WhatsApp, but it’s not as secure as you think.
Following a Telegram Channel within Inoreader (Si apre in una nuova finestra): Turn every public Telegram Channel into a Feed.
Fonts Knowledge (Si apre in una nuova finestra): Welcome to our library of original guides to the world of typography, which the Google Fonts team is producing in collaboration with typographic experts from around the world.
tildeverse.org (Si apre in una nuova finestra): we're a loose association of like-minded tilde communities. tildes are pubnixes in the spirit of tilde.club, which was created in 2014 by paul ford.
Fifty percent of Facebook Messenger’s total voice traffic comes from Cambodia. (Si apre in una nuova finestra) Keyboards weren't designed for Khmer. So Cambodians have just decided to ignore them
Untangling the Rat’s Nest of USB-C Standards and Cables (Si apre in una nuova finestra): It USB’d to be easy. Pardon the pun, but you know what I mean.
Crypto
🧵denouncing NFTs is good and honorable. (Si apre in una nuova finestra) here are some tips to help you on your scam-prevention journey.
🧵I read a blog post on how to make a web3 blog (Si apre in una nuova finestra) and it sounds like absolute hell.
NFT oligarchy? (Si apre in una nuova finestra) The top 10% of traders account for 85% of transactions & trade at least once 97% of all assets.
Here is the article you can send to people when they say »but the environmental issues with cryptoart will be solved soon, right?« (Si apre in una nuova finestra) Cryptocurrencies and NFTs are an absolute disaster for so many more reasons than the ecological.
Internet Explorer
Das war Ausgabe #85 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).
