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Bandwagons, Paywalls, and the Sad Death of Roscoe
Lewis Hamilton lost his dog. Roscoe wasn’t just a pet, he was family to him, same as my two were to me. Having had to say goodbye to two of our own dogs in recent years, I know there are few things in life that cut as deep. That part I get, and I feel…
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The YouTube Attention Economy is Drama Over Truth
Think about it for a minute. If you spend a lot of time on YouTube, how much of that time is actually spent consuming somebody else’s rumours, gossip, and speculation? Because so much of YouTube, as well as social media, blogs, and those bloody shorts (God, those damn shorts), is content created simply for your…
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The Great British Snow Panic and Media Fear Industry
In 1991, some friends and I drove across Canada in winter. We parked for lunch, came back to several inches of snow covering every vehicle in the now completely white parking area. We couldn’t see the roads. That’s snow. Real snow. And we carried on because that’s what you do when actual weather happens. It…