Unleash the fandom: How a new breed of high-concept indie bands are pointing to a more sustainable future away from digital megamalls
With Elon Musk turning Twitter into 4Chan, Google full of hallucinated bullshit AI, Zuckerberg’s Metaverse folly and the sense that in building our homes on them, we’re investing in somethng that’s not just more temporary, but potentially more predatory than we had hoped, the world is falling out of love with platforms. So what can…
Analysis: Black PR, white noise: How grey goo is killing the news media (and the news media doesn’t seem to mind).
This is a post about a systemic failure in our media organisations when it comes to reporting, and it has nothing to do with Rupert Murdoch or plagiarism. It starts in Soho and ends in Syria. If you’re a journalist, you’ll probably know it already, so apologies – though a couple of events recently,…