Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Michele Knobel, Colin Lankshear, Lance Bennett, Ryan Milner, and Jean Burgess,
Limor Shifman • Memes in Digital Culture (MIT Press Essential Knowledge)
up posts and figuring out the latest twists of the algorithm—which hashtags, memes, or formats need to be followed.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
In the heady days of the millennial media startup boom of the 2010s, the sense that large social platforms would pay publishers for content and create a new class of lucrative digital media outlets was pervasive and unquestioned. And in those early years, no one knew which platforms would succeed. It is almost impossible to believe, but there was a... See more
It had a founding CEO, Tina Sharkey, who was unabashedly trying to build a community in public, and got great press.
The New Consumer • The end of Brandless
New Media is not limited by the formats, genres, or business lines of the past . It sees the world with fresh eyes, hungering for new means of delivery and form.
Yancey Strickler • Formulary for New Media
How did an app designed by two guys in Shanghai managed to run circles around U.S. video apps from YouTube to Facebook to Instagram to Snapchat, becoming the most fertile source for meme origination, mutation, and dissemination in a culture so different from the one in which it was built?
Eugene Wei • TikTok and the Sorting Hat — Remains of the Day
• Set up RSS feeds: go to the social media sites and content aggregations sites (Bloglines, Technorati, Google News, Google Blog Search, Twitter Search, BlogPulse, Icerocket, Tweetscan, FriendFeed, etc) that you
Calvin Jones • Understanding Digital Marketing: Marketing Strategies for Engaging the Digital Generation: Volume 1
The most obvious metric for a media site is audience size.