future of ~the internet~

like, how about no

i love the idea of programming bots to watch ads, as if society wasn't absurd enough, every day we reach a new low.

animals looking at us like we are insane cos we fucking are. is this really life?

medium is shocked to learn that ad-driven media on the internet doesn't serve people, gives up

https://blog.medium.com/renewing-mediums-focus-98f374a960be#.ezzjciatm

http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2017/01/to-make-captive-whales-happier-let-them-skype-other-whales.html

i'm getting the vibe that blogs are BACK BACK BACK! even though some have already proclaimed the Death Of The Feed

is it because FB is not delivering the traffic it once did?

contextless destination pages somewhere in the soup of your website do not lend themselves to addictive repeat visits the way blogs do imo

never died, baby

I've actually seriously been considering.. downloading an RSS reader

But now a 12-person team of Redditors (led by Brandon Wink and Ron Vaisman) is taking the idea behind r/MemeEconomy and making a working, interactive meme stock market. They’re calling the trading tool NASDANQ, a cheeky financial system for an alternate universe adjacent to our own where meme is king.

http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/10/14223264/meme-economy-reddit-stock-market

All my money right now is tied up in crying_Jordan.jpg

feel like its already peaked tho, i'd sell

https://txt.fyi/

I can get behind that.

yeah, that's dope.

what, if anything, happens when you click "publish"?

Unicorns.

isn't there already something like this for long tweets?

Pope Francis
‏@Pontifex
Do not underestimate the value of example, for it is more powerful than a thousand words, a thousand “likes”, retweets or YouTube videos.

how long until they split facebook into two sites (one for conservatives and one for liberals)?

About 5 minutes before it becomes Skynet and launches the nukes

pastebin-like levels of horror there before long

https://www.kialo.com/tour/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=launch&utm_content=US_edu_npol_neng_m_v2

really

finally the perfect medium to test the theoretical effectiveness of my pickup lines

?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=launch&utm_content=US_edu_npol_neng_m_v2

THE WEB BEGAN DYING IN 2014, HERE'S HOW

https://staltz.com/img/referral-to-top-publishers.png

https://staltz.com/the-web-began-dying-in-2014-heres-how.html

https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/11/08/putting-a-face-to-a-comment-the-new-online-crusaders/?smid=tw-nytimesphoto&smtyp=cur

i'm not getting the revelatory effect for some reason, maybe you have to buy the coffee table book and watch the videos to really understand

maybe this guy had never seen internet users before

"I don't know if I really understood the consequences of what I was saying, because of the unintended consequences of a network when it grows to a billion or 2 billion people and ... it literally changes your relationship with society, with each other ... It probably interferes with productivity in weird ways. God only knows what it's doing to our children's brains."

Sounds like the guy has done a bit of growing up?

Who will tame this monster, this manticore? You and I my friends, you and i!

anyway social media wasn't created it was discovered

P.S. Parker, on life science allowing us to "live much longer, more productive lives": "Because I'm a billionaire, I'm going to have access to better health care so ... I'm going to be like 160 and I'm going to be part of this, like, class of immortal overlords. [Laughter] Because, you know the [Warren Buffett] expression about compound interest. ... [G]ive us billionaires an extra hundred years and you'll know what ... wealth disparity looks like."

sean you're supposed to cherish those thoughts and keep them close, not speak them

"when im 160 and just a withered skeleton with skin stretched over it and a million hoses coming out plugged into external replacement organs and taking my food in through a straw ill be laughing at you poor losers"

"when i die of natural causes at 75..."

"When Facebook was getting going, I had these people who would come up to me and they would say, 'I'm not on social media.' And I would say, 'OK. You know, you will be.' And then they would say, 'No, no, no. I value my real-life interactions. I value the moment. I value presence. I value intimacy.' And I would say, ... 'We'll get you eventually.'"

woah with this kind of salesmanship talent no wonder he's a billionaire

real life interactions? ffs.

have you ever had someone LIKE a URL you have referenced? sheer bliss

"when im 160 and just a withered skeleton with skin stretched over it and a million hoses coming out plugged into external replacement organs and taking my food in through a straw ill be laughing at you poor losers"

https://www.geek.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/cassandra2-625x351.jpg

where was the brain in that being

There's a little tank at the bottom, just out of frame

one day you will be able to post to borads with your mind

...and the resulting paste will look just about the same as now

resultant paste

http://isp.netscape.com/

it's someone's job to "curate" that page

http://isp.netscape.com/men/bb/

check out my new bikini babes feature. it's on

Netscape Internet Service men's from AOL-HuffPost Lifestyle

this is from an industry blog that analyzes traffic on the reg so i tend to place a little more trust in it that in the typical broadsheet thinkpiece

"Who is still sharing fake news on social media?"
http://www.newswhip.com/2018/04/still-sharing-junk-fake-news/

key takeaway: fear is what drives these shares - the seeming confirmation of things people are already afraid of

"People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they're afraid it might be true. Peoples' heads are full of knowledge, facts and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool."

Wizard's First Rule, page 560

Terry Goodkind is a pretty bad writer but that bit has always stuck with me.

His popularity as a writer is a demonstration of the truth of that quote.

Idk “people are stupid” always seems like a bad analysis to me.