Weekly Whimsies
- Source: Engadget
from Paramount's strategy of purposeful digital rot doesn't even make sense
Joe Maceda added 9d ago
- A subscription-based business requires an active fandom. And an ad-supported business requires a much bigger, and thus, usually more passive fandom. Due to the mechanics of the scale required to make money from digital advertising, you have to go broad.
from Another YouTuber couch apology by Garbage Day
Joe Maceda added 2mo ago
- Source: Slate Magazine
from How Sleep No More Changed Theater Forever, for Better and for Worse
Joe Maceda added 1mo ago
- It is one that's dominated by in-house client mediocrity factories, lowest-cost content bullshit artists, automated intent fracking, and business portfolios increasingly populated by the withered corpses of once vibrant and profitable brands.
from The tragic horizon: Resisting marketing’s drift towards the business of value destruction — Martin Weigel
Joe Maceda added 16d ago
- Source: The A.V. Club
from Watch The Avengers re-assemble to record The Avengers in Lakota
Joe Maceda added 1d ago
- If your style is meant to help you express your priorities, and your priorities exclusively concern being stylish, what does your style express? Can clothes express...clothes?
from #176: Accounting for taste by Haley Nahman
Joe Maceda added 3mo ago
- The web I invented was to provide power and value to individuals, which they do not have at the moment. Users should have an ability to control their own data, to share it with other people and organizations as they choose.
from Frank McCourt Organizing a People's Bid to Acquire TikTok
Joe Maceda added 2mo ago
- In 1985, a gigabyte of hard drive memory cost around $75,000. By 1995, it was around $750. Come 2004 — the year Gmail began — it was a few dollars. Today, it’s less than a penny. Now Gmail offers 15 gigabytes free. What a marvel. What a mess.
from Happy 20th Anniversary, Gmail. I’m Sorry I’m Leaving You. by Ezra Klein
Joe Maceda added 3mo ago
- Source: Fast Company
from This might explain why Sony acquired Alamo Drafthouse
Joe Maceda added 15d ago