Tag: Cory Doctorow

The enfloofification of TikTok

As a human who’s never done more than beer money from fiction sales, I’m not here to tell anyone to quit something that’s working, but I think this article ought to give some pause both to all the folks who are hoping to kill it on #BookTok and those who’ve actually succeeded. Social media platforms… Continue reading The enfloofification of TikTok

Leeks & lentils

The most recent episode of Maintenance Phase is a journey through a scandal I hadn’t heard of: the severe poisoning of dozens? hundreds? of people who’d eaten Daily Harvest’s leek and lentil crumbles. The episode is worth a listen end to end; Michael expands this one story out into a tour through recent changes in… Continue reading Leeks & lentils

Why streaming doesn’t pay

I know Cory Doctorow has loomed large over this blog in its resurrected form, but anyone distributing art and music through platforms like Amazon and Spotify should at least think hard about the analyses of those platforms he and Rebecca Giblin present in CHOKEPOINT CAPITALISM. I’m not an Audible member and don’t want to sign… Continue reading Why streaming doesn’t pay