3 posts tagged ‘Internet’
A Lesson in Creativity and Capitalism from Two Zany YouTubers
The New Yorker,
Some of the optimism of the early Internet seems to live on in the whimsical videos of James Hobson and Colin Furze.
Will Kids Online, In Fact, Be All Right?
A new documentary reveals social-media platforms’ iron grip on the lives of teen-agers, one that’s increasingly being linked to a slew of mental-health issues. How scared should we be?
The Monetized Web
kbps,
Nobody loves a paywall, but everybody loves Substack Increasingly, it feels like paid memberships for web content are not only a viable alternative to surveillance-driven ad revenue, but one that readers are eager to embrace. The success of Substack demonstrates this. This success is often framed as a preference for reading in the inbox rather […]