My Spider Senses Are Tingling

“One thing I’m thinking about,” Cunningham wrote, “is whether this election foretells a radical shift in campaign tactics, away from the ‘ground’ and even more ardently toward the Internet and whatever it is we mean when we say ‘television’ now.” In other words, he asked, “Are podcasts and social feeds and Twitch broadcasts the political battlegrou... See more

"Yet ideas never stand alone. They come woven in a web of auxiliary ideas, consequential notions, supporting concepts, foundational assumptions, side effects, and logical consequences and a cascade of subsequent possibilities. Ideas fly in flocks. To hold one idea in mind means to hold a cloud of them." (Kevin Kelly, What Technology Wants)

This is also only my perception but I felt like every time I opened up Instagram, brands were starting to push out way more content because they had all this shit to sell. Sure, there’s been a lot of content for years but this felt like a lot more than usual. We’ve just never been built like that, to be a content machine.