Category: Internet

THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE ONLINE

This from “The only taboo left is copyright infringement,” from Garbage Day:

The culture that feels the most dangerous, and, thus, exciting to young people, will be what you can’t see online. And the most dangerous thing for platforms is not racist garbage. It’s unmonetizeable content. The “metric” that will matter most going forward will not be the numbers at the bottom of a post or video, but the human beings in a room that left their house to experience something.

I’m sure people nearing 50 in prior generations kept fighting for drive in movie theaters, and muscle cars, late night diners – but that’s gone, only to be unearthed like dinosaur bones. I can’t remember the last time I even saw a photo of a drive in movie theater, a muscle car, or the late night diner scene, you know?

That’s just from the 1950s to 2025, that’s 75 years. Give it another 25 years and the fond memories of MTV, corded phones, and VCRs will be long forgotten.

It was in 1971 Gil Scott-Heron told us “The revolution will not be televised.”

The revolution will not be televised
Will not be televised
Will not be televised
Will not be televised
The revolution will be no re-run, brothers
The revolution will be live

Perhaps the revolution will not be online, it will be live.

BREAK UP WITH SOCIAL MEDIA DAY

Got 40+ registered for tomorrow’s BREAK UP 💔 WITH SOCIAL MEDIA Day Zoom call tomorrow at 12pm EST (Feb 14, of course, still time to register).

Three hours a day is… a lot. I’ll be deleting the YouTube app (too easy to get caught up in scrolling Shorts while making lunch, or reheating my coffee), and the Substack app. Now that I can schedule Live streams via the desktop, I can finally ditch the app, as that too is just way too easy to scroll scroll scroll a few times a day, which adds up.

I love doing live stream stuff, and I feel like I need to figure out how to do that via YouTube or something at some point.

HOW NOT TO LAUNCH A CONTENT HUB

Jesus christ on a stick, this is amatuer hour.

I found via The Trend Report that Kamala Harris is launching Headquarters, “the new Gen-Z led progressive content hub.”

The announcement video was posted on the official HQ Twitter account (here), a 28 second video clip made in a conference room explaining that it’s where you’ll find the latest of what’s going on, and meet and revisit with courageous leaders.

No mention of the URL, or any sort of call to action. Just to “stay engaged” and “I’ll see you out there.”

So the HQ Twitter profile has a link: headquarters.news, which links to…

… a Substack Welcome page.

This annoying Welcome page “feature” can’t be turned off, but a quick Google search will tell you how to avoid it.

I skipped this by clicking the tiny X in the upper right corner. C’mon, take me to the “the new Gen-Z led progressive content hub” already!

That’s it, folks. That’s the new Gen-Z led progressive content hub.

No video (nah, save that for social media, I guess).

This was posted on Feb 5th, and I’m writing this on the 8th (I guess nothing much has happened since this initial post).

And the Substack About page hasn’t been updated, leaving the generic default text; “Join the crew,” are you kidding me?

How do you launch this without some already published “meet and revisit with courageous leaders” posts, as mentioned in the kick off video?

How do you launch this without having an updated ABOUT page?

How do you launch this without any video, branding, or images?

How do you launch this without links to resources about registering to vote, or how to contact your elected officials?

How do you launch a “content hub” like this in 2026?

THE APPEAL OF INTERNET RADIO

Something about live radio really intrigues me. That you can turn something on and speak, and people could hear it, but you don’t really have numbers or metrics to see who’s tuning in. Not like YouTube and Twitch streams, you know?

With Macrowave you can do that straight from your Mac, and anyone with a web browser can listen in.

I messed around with Blast Radio years ago, streaming from Abelton Live, and people could listen via the app. Afterwards you could download your “show,” and I pieced them together into a HUNTERTHEN album.