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― j., Thursday, 23 July 2015 21:33 (eight years ago) link
http://www.vox.com/2015/8/6/9099357/internet-dead-end
sorry for vox link
― j., Thursday, 6 August 2015 15:28 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/EnvGen/status/629007382513885184
― j., Sunday, 9 August 2015 13:24 (eight years ago) link
Cute!
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 9 August 2015 20:55 (eight years ago) link
iOS 9 "Crystal" Ad Blocker Benchmarks – 74% speed increase, 53% less bandwidth: http://murphyapps.co/blog/2015/8/22/crystal-benchmarks
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Saturday, 22 August 2015 18:21 (eight years ago) link
This thread has made me go and check if the Phone Losers of America is still a site... to my surprise they are up and still update regularly!
― Frobisher, Sunday, 23 August 2015 03:37 (eight years ago) link
Cactus! I still listen to their podcast on occasion.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 23 August 2015 05:43 (eight years ago) link
I have thought many times about rushomancy's long post on the "Slavery in the United States" Wikipedia article. Super super OTM. Not to say I know exactly how you could fix Wikipedia, but it's super useful as an illustration of how the current editing process/population gives rise to stuff that looks NPOV but turns out to be either noxiously biased or just totally incoherent if you actually think about all the inclusions and exclusions taken together.
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Monday, 6 February 2017 17:52 (seven years ago) link
Using Wikipedia as anything other than a starting point for further research/inquiry has always been problematic at the very least.
― Transformed From The Norm By The Nuclear Goop (Old Lunch), Monday, 6 February 2017 18:01 (seven years ago) link
which sites do you use besides ilxor? I can't find a single online blog/magazine/newspaper that holds my attention
― niels, Friday, 20 October 2017 07:06 (six years ago) link
facebook
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Friday, 20 October 2017 08:58 (six years ago) link
i have become an email newsletter kind of guy
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 20 October 2017 09:01 (six years ago) link
l-r: tracer, email newsletter editors
https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/500x/72711660/your-ideas-are-intriguing-to-me-id-like-to-subscribe-to-your-newsletter.jpg
― midas / medusa cage match (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 20 October 2017 09:14 (six years ago) link
websites are over
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 20 October 2017 09:22 (six years ago) link
always feel like I'm wasting time when I check fb
email newsletters sound interesting, any recommendations?
― niels, Friday, 20 October 2017 09:30 (six years ago) link
depends on what you're into! for news i get beat the press (though he's just now gone on vacation). click on the envelope icon here: http://cepr.net/blogs/beat-the-press/
and stephen bush's newsletter: https://www.newstatesman.com/staggers-morning-call
a lot of blogs have a newsletter option these days
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 20 October 2017 09:49 (six years ago) link
cosign on staggers
― stet, Friday, 20 October 2017 11:28 (six years ago) link
cool, thanks!
― niels, Friday, 20 October 2017 12:13 (six years ago) link
shut up brad this is stupid you're stupid websites are FOREVER websites RULE
they rule HARD
― j., Friday, 20 October 2017 15:17 (six years ago) link
It's strange that so many sites I used to read 10, 15 or 20 years ago are still around, but usually in an unreadable form
― President Keyes, Friday, 20 October 2017 15:32 (six years ago) link
RSS feed reading all the way!
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 21 October 2017 01:34 (six years ago) link
― niels
so are you fishing for porn recommendations or what
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Saturday, 21 October 2017 01:52 (six years ago) link
seriously, though, just the Digital Antiquarian and my youtube subscriptions. the Digital Antiquarian RULES.
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Saturday, 21 October 2017 01:55 (six years ago) link
the golden age of the internet was Google Reader
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 21 October 2017 02:37 (six years ago) link
Perfect Sound Forever is one I usually read it all when it publishes each month for seemingly forever.
― earlnash, Saturday, 21 October 2017 03:41 (six years ago) link
rss was the greatest internet thing that ever happened
i don't even understand why it has died -- i have subscribed to yr feed, i am interested in yr content, just fucking tell me what's new and i'll fucking click on it
― mookieproof, Saturday, 21 October 2017 05:40 (six years ago) link
Pocket!
― anvil, Saturday, 21 October 2017 05:50 (six years ago) link
pocket is good. it is not a replacement for rss
― mookieproof, Saturday, 21 October 2017 05:54 (six years ago) link
Pocket and Longform have replaced magazines for my lunch reading since phones got big enough to be comfortably readable.
Was thinking recently it would be nice to see a resurgence of personal websites/blogging that aren't Tumblr/Twitter micro-blogging and not attempts to monetize cooking or whatever.
― louise ck (milo z), Saturday, 21 October 2017 06:47 (six years ago) link
"podcasting" the elephant in the room here no
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 21 October 2017 11:30 (six years ago) link
I don't have the patience to listen to podcasts, but probably there's a move from reading to listening these years bcz smartphones
― niels, Saturday, 21 October 2017 15:00 (six years ago) link
i don't even understand why it has died
it... didn't? I never noticed any decline at least, just about every site still has feeds to subscribe to like they had a decade ago
― chihuahuau, Saturday, 21 October 2017 17:15 (six years ago) link
Feedly+Reeder still works really well
― alomar lines, Saturday, 21 October 2017 20:43 (six years ago) link
ffs podcasts suck ass
― flopson, Saturday, 21 October 2017 20:50 (six years ago) link
i don't want to be mean and i know radio has existed forever and that they're useful for ppl who work deadening office jobs or commute a lot but when some people on here post about the 7 or 8 podcasts they listen to weekly i'm like, fuck that's depressing, listening to clucking smug men talk over each other for like 18 hours a week
― flopson, Saturday, 21 October 2017 20:56 (six years ago) link
I don't listen to any podcasts that even remotely fit that description, and I listen to quite a lot of podcasts
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 21 October 2017 20:57 (six years ago) link
Yeah, you’re kind of off-base there. Smug, chuckling men are the morning drive-in DJs of the podcast world.
― rb (soda), Saturday, 21 October 2017 21:44 (six years ago) link
there are a LOT of them tbf
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 21 October 2017 23:00 (six years ago) link
sorry sorry i don't want to be mean, and i actually even know the feeling of liking and anticipating the next episode of a pod; forget i said anything. but just, if podcasts are 'the good thing on the internet' in 2017 we're fucked
― flopson, Saturday, 21 October 2017 23:45 (six years ago) link
reading on the internet has just become so basically shitty most of the time, autoplaying videos, intrusive ads, anti-ad-blocker blockers, the uh.. writing itself.. podcasts feel relatively uncluttered and handleable somehow
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 21 October 2017 23:56 (six years ago) link
well you can get people to subscribe, can't you
― it me, Sunday, 22 October 2017 01:24 (six years ago) link
yes! almost as if it were an...... rss feed!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 22 October 2017 09:59 (six years ago) link
flopson’s characterization isn’t at all unfair. maron, simmons, fucking barstool - those are all wildly popular. plus all the godawful comedians out there. i also kind of hate the light smirkiness of a lot of big time podcast network shows, especially when i’m interests in the meat of their content - that sort of uneasy “ha ha don’t want to appear too SERIOUS because it would muss my carefully curated brooklyn aesthetic” just falls so flat
― maura, Sunday, 22 October 2017 10:35 (six years ago) link
ta for the nudge re feedreader ... welcome back rss feeds.i loved google reader, and this seems to do everything i need.now to go find my archive of rss feeds that i used to subscribe to.
― mark e, Sunday, 22 October 2017 10:51 (six years ago) link
xpost i totally agree. that said you can break out of that bubble and once you do there are a ridiculous number of frankly miraculous podcasts right now. top of my list at the moment are rumble strip and first day back, both produced and presented by women, neither of them smirky or annoying, both with an incredible facility for channelling stories into your ear. but yeah it's also a totally different mode of engaging with something, it takes longer. it's not a substitute for reading. although for some people it kind of is now??
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 22 October 2017 10:58 (six years ago) link
i also can’t listen to anything while i’m working, especially people talking while i’m trying to write. and i don’t commute. so that knocks out a lot of my podcast listening time
― maura, Sunday, 22 October 2017 11:03 (six years ago) link
flopson otm
― pulled pork state of mind (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 22 October 2017 11:57 (six years ago) link
I need to take a break from the internet for a while, this thing has become a beast. When I was younger and spent all my time online, late 90s/early 2000s, it was still a relatively hidden place. I was on it because I had made really good, close friends with people who I'd have real conversations with everyday, and around hobbies (making music and sharing it, writing and sharing that, drawing, etc.)
Now it's turned into this abomination taken over by corporations. Just about every website I use has been made with addictive design, and it's getting pretty bad for my health.
It's hard to admit it's not the same place it used to be, but it's not.
Now it's just mindless, repetitive clicking over and over again, and it's like that by design, like being a slot machine addict. Talk about something going from life-changing to life-screwing so quickly.
― carpet_kaiser, Monday, 23 October 2017 02:04 (six years ago) link
A lot of popular podcasts sucking doesn't feel like a particularly strong condemnation of the medium to me, I mean how good were the most popular sites of 2006, or 1998? At this stage you could listen to podcasts 24/7 without listening to a single man, or a single comedian; there's a very low barrier to entry in terms of cash and technical skills, chances are there's a podcast for any interest you could think of.
I think this is fundamentally different from twitter or facebook, where the problem isn't (only) who's popular but the actual medium itself and what it's trying to do with you. Closest podcasts have to that is Apple constantly fucking up their podcasts app but plenty of ppl listen by other means and the bad shit in iTunes feels more about incompetence than insidiousness in general.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 10:45 (six years ago) link
Google search is becoming more and more useless, often I'll get pages and pages of results from fucking quora.com or thedailymail.com
― niels, Friday, 8 June 2018 07:34 (five years ago) link