I don’t remember why I started thinking about this, but the other day it occurred to me that our current decade actually began a couple years before 2010. Thinking about it further, I set the beginning of the 10’s at 2008 and began setting in…
2017 has been the most difficult year I have ever spent online. I began the year realizing that I had an unhealthy addiction to Facebook (particularly to arguing with people on Facebook), moved on to receiving tons of unwanted attention after being sucked into…
Boyoboyoboyoboyoboy, how do you pick just sixteen videos out of the wealth of videos uploaded to YouTube over the course of the year to call your favorites? Well, a few of my favorites have already been captured in this other list of my…
This tweet (and its linked essay) from Mike Rugnetta was the 2 in an anti-internet 1–2 punch I’d read over the last 24 hours:
As part of YouTube Rewind, our year-end wrap-up of YouTube’s trends of the year, I worked with a lot of local country teams to help deliver year-end lists of their countries’ top 10 trending videos. That means I’ve seen a…
These are the 15 songs that gave me more life, this year. It was pretty easy to put together this list of 15, which speaks highly of the kind of year in music we had. I could quite easily have added another ten. Check out the list, and let me know in the comments what you…
Chatting with Joe Donatelli about burgers on the Gram got me thinking a bit about what makes for a good burger in my experience. I’ll admit this is something I think about a lot. I’ve been on a quest to discover the best burger in LA since the first time I moved to LA in 2002 and…
I’ve had this Lil Uzi Vert song stuck in my head for a couple weeks, and that’s a terrible thing. There’s a run-of-the-mill annoyance we all feel when we have a song stuck in our head that we…
Last Thursday was Take Your Parents To Work day at Google.
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