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Radar, week 24: Hustlers and homes

June 19, 2022
by Bobbie Johnson
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• 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.

The old internet

January 3, 2020
by Bobbie Johnson
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Katie Notopoulos gives a reasonable rundown of the web that used to exist before the 2010s (a wild and disintermediated place where independent creators had a chance to thrive) and the one that exists a decade later (centralized into a handful of aggregators and platforms that everyone is reliant on.) The internet of the 2010s will be defined by social media’s role in the 2016 election, the rise of extremism, and the fallout from privacy […]