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We keep an eye out for the most interesting stories about Labby subjects: digital media, startups, the web, journalism, strategy, and more. Here’s some of what we’ve seen lately.
Wired / Kate Knibbs / Oct 26, 2020
“ClickHole had begun as a response to the rise of viral blogging, but now its fortunes were yoked even more directly to that world. Like so many other digital media outlets during this era, ClickHole was pushed to produce video content to post on Facebook. The writers fulfilled the mandate with the strangest concepts they could muster, such as a camera trained for hours on melting butter.” (Also, gloriously bad headline here.)
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