Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
In place of the human gatekeepers and curators of culture, the editors and DJs, we now have a set of algorithmic gatekeepers.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence and Power on the Internet
amazon.com
In a SoundCloud landscape teeming with off-the-wall musical experiments, it makes sense that artists are anointing themselves as genre-generators. It ’s a way to compete in the attention economy, a tactic to distinguish your sound from what could otherwise be perceived as another set of weird noises in a sea of bizarre bleeps and bloops.
No Bells • Deep-internet bubbles: How microgenres are taking over SoundCloud
Jocelyn Goldfein, one of the engineering directors
Sheryl Sandberg • Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Media Economies Design Lab,
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
“The Big Ship” by Brian Eno