The Internet removed constraints from the analog world, and AI is finishing the job. That this may be the final blow for the Internet as a source for truth may ultimately be for the best.
An Interview with Spike Eskin About Radio, Podcasts, and Internet Stars
An interview with WFAN’s Spike Eskin about the radio business, how it is different than podcasts, and how stars are made on the Internet.
An Interview with Marc Andreessen about AI and How You Change the World
An interview with Marc Andreessen about COVID, AI opportunities and risk, and a16z’s approach to the future.
Twitter Kills Third-Party Clients, Twitter’s Tortured History With 3rd-Party Apps, The Twitter Files Business Model
Twitter’s decision to kick-off third party clients is classic Musk; it also gives a signal as to Twitter’s business model focus going forward.
An Interview with Zeynep Tufekci about Lessons from the Pandemic and the Crisis of Authority
An Interview with Zeynep Tufekci about Lessons from the Pandemic and the Crisis of Authority
A Pandemic Year, Coronavirus and Information, Zeynep Tufekci Cuts Through
Looking back on the pandemic through the lens of Stratechery’s Articles about information. Plus, why Zeynep Tufekci is the writer of the year.
Twitter, Responsibility, and Accountability
Twitter went too far last week for reasons that go back to 2016 and the unfair blaming of tech for media’s mistakes.
Media, Regulators, and Big Tech; Indulgences and Injunctions; Better Approaches
Blaming Facebook and Google for the media industry’s trouble inevitably leads to bad regulations with unintended consequences and the end of accountability for big tech.
An Interview with Zeynep Tufekci About Masks, Media, and Information Ecology
Zoom made the exact sort of post they needed to; then, an interview with Zeynep Tufekci about masks, media, and information ecology, and what it means if the techlash is over.
The BuzzFeed Lesson
The lesson of BuzzFeed is that dominant Aggregators like Facebook have no incentive to act against their self interest and support suppliers.