Due to various circumstances (being active on a social media platform that her husband is active on for the first time in years, going to her former city for work at the end of the year, driving up to the North Shore and passing hotels we hung out in together and places we ate together), I've been thinking about a friend who passed away last year quite a bit lately, and reading through all of this felt so cathartic. I had a nice cry. Alli sounds like a riot--I'm glad you're keeping her memory alive 💜
So much of our grief is all our own, yet also shared with the entire grieving world. Songs are rough, being emotional in the first place. I remember my brother saying he couldn't listen to country music after Mom died. When Dad died in 1987, the radio was filled with songs, not written about death, but that to me were all about him: "Crying" by Roy Orbison for one. Remembering Alli with love and sending love to you, Kiki.
The Long Tail!! I read this when I was in library school too, doing a capstone research project on preservation of streaming media!!!!! I had a lot of Thoughts at the time and still now forever I think
What do you think about it now? I think it’s always been A Thing and will continue to be in terms of how some people access information /“content”/etc. However, it didn’t turn out to be the marketing and sales bonanza some predicted and hoped it would be and is therefore now considered “over.” 🙃
I agree with you and want to take it further--that the long tail exists but in almost diametric opposition to capitalism, and in fact if you try to harness the potential of the long tail for capital then it’s a direct line from there to the concept of “enshittification” that I first heard about over on the Garbage Day newsletter and am now obsessed with (https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/). I’ve been trying to articulate that thruline in my brain for a while and I think that slate article you linked does it: “Where Netflix’s disc-by-mail service promised you could watch anything you wanted, its streaming incarnation merely promises that you’ll always be able to watch something.”
Due to various circumstances (being active on a social media platform that her husband is active on for the first time in years, going to her former city for work at the end of the year, driving up to the North Shore and passing hotels we hung out in together and places we ate together), I've been thinking about a friend who passed away last year quite a bit lately, and reading through all of this felt so cathartic. I had a nice cry. Alli sounds like a riot--I'm glad you're keeping her memory alive 💜
❤️❤️❤️
So much of our grief is all our own, yet also shared with the entire grieving world. Songs are rough, being emotional in the first place. I remember my brother saying he couldn't listen to country music after Mom died. When Dad died in 1987, the radio was filled with songs, not written about death, but that to me were all about him: "Crying" by Roy Orbison for one. Remembering Alli with love and sending love to you, Kiki.
Love you, Mom ❤️
The Long Tail!! I read this when I was in library school too, doing a capstone research project on preservation of streaming media!!!!! I had a lot of Thoughts at the time and still now forever I think
What do you think about it now? I think it’s always been A Thing and will continue to be in terms of how some people access information /“content”/etc. However, it didn’t turn out to be the marketing and sales bonanza some predicted and hoped it would be and is therefore now considered “over.” 🙃
I agree with you and want to take it further--that the long tail exists but in almost diametric opposition to capitalism, and in fact if you try to harness the potential of the long tail for capital then it’s a direct line from there to the concept of “enshittification” that I first heard about over on the Garbage Day newsletter and am now obsessed with (https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/). I’ve been trying to articulate that thruline in my brain for a while and I think that slate article you linked does it: “Where Netflix’s disc-by-mail service promised you could watch anything you wanted, its streaming incarnation merely promises that you’ll always be able to watch something.”
YES! I love this and am about to go down an enshittification rabbit hole so thank you, I think!
lol wave to me when you get deep enough!!