The podcast Kill List doesn’t reflect badly on the internet – it reflects badly on us | John Naughton

the ultimate problem of the Internet might stem not from the discrete technology but from the Frankensteinian way in which humanity’s invention has exceeded our own capacities.

And I still don’t think the “HBO for podcasts” or “Netflix for podcasts” is structurally something that most people urgently need or want, at least in the way it’s being presented today.

Eli Pariser put it on the Techdirt Podcast recently. It’s like we live in a world with no libraries, only bookstores. And in that case, “you don’t blame a bookstore for not being a library,” says Eli. Instead, you figure out how to open a dang library! And once you have a library, you don’t evaluate it in bookstore terms — no one expects 10x or 100... See more