Best Practices
Explaining The Pandemic To My Past Self
Series of videos explaining what we’re going through to our past selves has gone wildly viral, with millions of views and is hilarious.
Restaurant Innovation
Restaurants are leveraging their kitchens to launch separate, takeout-only brands.
Laborious Retweets
The changes will alter the look and feel of Twitter, increasing the amount of time a user must spend to retweet someone else’s comment.
Library Of Congress Newspaper Search
The dataset includes more than 1.5 million newspaper photos.
Refreshipedia
Wikipedia, the only encyclopedia kids have ever known, is getting a new look to make it easier to navigate. It’s the first re-design in a decade.
Telepath
How a team of former Quora employees are using lessons learned from Twitter in an effort to make social networking fun again.
How To Quash The Q
Two years ago, Reddit had the internet’s biggest QAnon problem. Today, that problem is gone—but the company can’t really explain why.
Worst Practices
Facebook Purges The Q
Facebook says it has completely banned QAnon across all of its platforms, calling it a “militarized social movement.” But it hasn’t actually done that.
Surreal Nightmare
Almost 200 people told what it’s been like to lose a loved one to the mass delusion of QAnon. Here’s what they said.
Smiles
The publicity-hungry MPR Raccoon has moved out east and is trying to go national. #mprraccoon https://t.co/Dx64xDzEaC
— Jason DeRusha (@DeRushaJ) October 7, 2020
Shiny New Stuff
B.L.'s Finds
David's Finds
Politics
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Actor Wayne Knight, who played postman Newman on Seinfeld has released an anti-trump PSA urging people to vote.
Weekly Numbers
Brand Activism
So-called brand activism is evolving fast. When Colin Kaepernick first knelt during the US national anthem in 2016, professional football turned its back on him. Now, consumer and sports fan expectations are forcing brands to see activism as good for business.
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