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What's Mastodon? What's ActivityPub?!
Explaining the future of social media
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Alex
1:23:51
May 2023
Information overload is a type of censorship
Using "How to do Nothing" as a launching point, we examine how there's Too Much Content out there.
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Alex
1:04:53
April 2023
Doing Something About Jenny Odell's "How to do Nothing," Part 1!
What does it mean to focus your attention and opt out of the "attention economy"?
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Alex
44:32
December 2022
The Complete Beginner’s Guide to "Capitalist Realism"
A look at Mark Fisher's most famous book
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Alex
1:32:28
October 2022
SEO Cope And Change—And StarCraft!
What it's like to be a manager at an SEO content mill
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Alex
59:01
September 2022
The Top 10 Things We Wish We Didn't Know About Content Mills
Badly tailored suits, even worse CMSes, and the wisdom of Margaret Rouse
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Alex
1:23:23
The Knife Alien File: A Content Bonanza
The one rule you can never break when working for a content mill
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Alex
54:37
August 2022
002b: Content algorithms: We’re the tools and Google is the operator
How algorithms make us behave in weird ways
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Alex
55:14
July 2022
002a: IMDb What to Watch, AWS, and algorithmic selection
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.
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Alex
34:28
001: Bill Gates and the origins of "content is king"
How did "content" become an unavoidable keyword?
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Alex
49:13
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