Archive - This Too Too Solid Flesh

When content becomes gigantic and all-consuming

May 6

How "content" ran roughshod over its human creators

Mar 17

001: Bill Gates and the origins of "content is king"Listen now (49 min) | How did "content" become an unavoidable keyword?

Jul 17

Through their attachment to SEO keywords and strict style rules, content companies make it too difficult for produce writing that humans want to read

May 22

002a: IMDb What to Watch, AWS, and algorithmic selection Listen now (34 min) | Consuming content isn't fun anymore. That's because there's too much out there and it's all being recommended to you by machines.

Jul 24

002b: Content algorithms: We’re the tools and Google is the operator Listen now (55 min) | How algorithms make us behave in weird ways

Aug 6

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