• Loved this Mia Sato report from Gary Vaynerchuck’s VeeCon. Internet-driven fandoms are such fertile (and often terrifying) territory.

• The rise of the internet’s creative middle class.

• Robots building offshore wind turbines.

• How Houston moved 25,000 people from the streets into homes of their own.

• Megan Tatum on queer campaigners using the net to organize in a conservative Muslim country.