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Feeds still have a lot of inertia, at least. Most blogs generate them out of the box, and Wordpress being as predominant as it still is means you can still find them even where you…

Any boast about AI accelerating the development lifecycle comes with an equal or greater stock that examples like this become more frequent when there are less opportunities for so…

I should have specified I meant the custom melodies. My understanding was that they're now all generic. https://sheets.works/the-bells-of-tokyo is a good reference for the transiti…

JR East is already in the process of eliminating departure melodies as they transition to one-man station operations, so these will unfortunately be gone sooner than later. The Nam…

Besides the context in the other comments, they pushed the Japanese fresh food angle in a media blitz pretty hard last year ( https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/business/7-eleven-c…

Dead internet theory seems mostly proven by blog posts gesticulating about it. Digital creation is easier, more collaborative, and just as fun as it has ever been if you stop think…

The advertisers that evaporated and left behind a lot of no label dropshipping scams seem to think so. Did a lot of them eventually come back because there is some audience to sque…

We have probably crested over some peak, but you would not look at the broad numbers and say 3% of a peak is organic to that trend. That is a dying/dead website, at least from the …

Notably, this primer on Sora safeguards was published only yesterday: https://openai.com/index/creating-with-sora-safely/ Not a great look that either the teams responsible for Sor…

I'm pretty forgiving about accessibility (I'm able to say this at all because I don't have to rely rigidly on accessibility tools) but nav menus feel like a baseline we shouldn't m…

The current utilization of generative video is almost universally horrible, which this article does suggest, so I'm not too surprised there are players trying to differentiate them…

Comparing views cross-platform is not a very useful study and YouTube routinely adjusts what a view means. Shorts changed earlier this year to count all playbacks and loops without…

For what it is worth, they have communicated that they do eventually plan to retire the domain themselves [1]: >Re-enrolling your security key will associate them with x[.]com, all…

Cloudhiker is pretty healthy as a StumbleUpon revival. I've found lots of great personal blogs and sites across a lot of categories through it. https://cloudhiker.net/

Google had a tailored fair use argument because they never made more than snippets public and searchable. It was also prior to Hachette that controlled lending with one-to-one digi…

Stick figures run through a lot of amateur digital animation, for probably obvious reasons. Pivot reigned on a lot of early YouTube and the stubby stick figure style ran through a …

This exact arbitrage, performed by Doordash, was exploited. https://www.readmargins.com/p/doordash-and-pizza-arbitrage

Some of the major hosted feed readers (Inoreader, Feedly, Feedbin) include subscriber count in their user agent. I usually run a filter on requests to the feed links in my access l…

Quibi launched in April 2020. TikTok by this point would have 2 billion downloads [1]. It's difficult to assess they were trailblazers here. I might even say a component of their f…

Watching the firehose events they're probably clearing Mastodon for now. We'll see how that looks after it stabilizes again, the surges tend to have pretty steep dropoffs so far. h…

Neil Cicierega's Ariel Needs Legs somewhat infamously had the audio corrupted on its YouTube upload over time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nH6ya5g2-s It actually seems better …

IA received and posted a dump of MP3.com dated just prior to their takeover by CNET a few months back: https://archive.org/details/mp3-com-rescue-barge