😎2010 Nostalgia, Reduce Food Waste, and Video Podcasting
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Hey everyone! How’s your Monday going?
I had a bit of a cold last week - fun fact for nonparents - you get sick a lot. 😆 I’ve lost about 10 pounds total from that diet I was on, and I plan to do the diet again in August. Hopefully, I can lose another 10!
I’ve been listening to a lot of upbeat electronic music lately. Here’s TheFatRat - one of my favorite artists lately. Lots of fun little melodies!
Did you hear about the drama with the Audacity fork Tenacity? Seems a bit of a 4chan war happened last week. This is one of the first times I’ve heard that name in a while. Maybe Internet Historian will make a vid sometime . . .
Oh! Remember that movie Monsters that I mentioned last week? The first one is good - the second one is horrible - with a capital H.
It’s literally an existential nihilistic version of The Outpost but with only a little alien action.
I’ll never get that hour and a half of my life back . . .
Well, shall we dive on into today’s topics, and leave C movies in the past?
😎2010 Nostalgia
I got inspired to write about 2010 nostalgia from this tweet by @galacticfurball
We typically think of Vintage in terms of the 90’s, or 80’s . . . . but the 2010’s is definitely very much nostalgia now.
how about some 2010 hits - These will take you back
in 2010, Facebook was undisputed king of social media. Ole’ Zuck was Times person of the year.1
Back when Facebook looked like this . . .
Back in 2010, Wikileaks was making huge waves on the internet, led by Julian Assange. How was that over 10 years ago?
As for tech, 2010 was a BIG year. One could argue that this was the year that the great duopoly of Apple and Android really spread its wings.
Here are a few tech things that happened in 2010 - an age in which the Blackberry was still a big player (with death on the horizon).
The iPad came out
The Iphone 3gs and Iphone 4
The Blackberry was still popular
This was the phone all the kids owned. Remember this 3G slider?
I can hear that little clack from here a decade later. I can hear a classmate surreptitiously texting in class, trying to mitigate the sounds of the keys.
Everyone was buying songs (or ripping them, running from one site to the next. These were the last days of Limewire, among others) - Spotify wasn’t even availabe in the states yet.2
You wanna get real crazy? GROOVESHARK was one of the 50 best websites in 2010 according to Time.3 Yeah, the dubiously legal (and now dead) streaming platform Grooveshark was popular back then.
And Gaming? Angry Birds was rescuing millions of eggs in 2010. The PSP was still around. Halo Reach and Mass Effect 2 were reigning.
Now I have this song AND this song stuck in my head, simultaneously. While we’re on the topic of music . . .
We can’t forget that this was the most popular Youtube video of 2010.4
I really hope i’ve taken you back to 2010, just a little bit. I really wish I could keep going, but we gotta move on. From 2010 to 2021 we come!
🍗Reduce Food Waste
Too Good to Go is FINALLY in the United States. I don’t know how I missed it, but I’m so glad it is finally in the states.
What am I talking about?
Too Good to Go is a really innovative startup that has created a way to solve the massive problem of food waste in our world.
Roughly one third of the food produced in the world for human consumption every year gets lost or wasted (Gustavsson et al., 2011) — approximately 1.6 billion tons (BCG, 2018). That means within a year, we waste around 51 tons every second (BCG, 2018) (Source)
Think about that for a second. Yeah - 51 tons of food were just wasted.
That’s insane.
So many restaurants, bakeries, grocery stores, and other businesses throw out tons of food because it’s not in “optimal” eating condition. 24 hour old croissant? Bye. Rotisserie chicken that’s been sitting out for a few hours? You get to feed the dumpster. And on it goes . . .
How do we save that food?
Too Good to Go has created an app where you can buy leftover food from restaurants - for cheap. Founded in 2016, they’ve become quite popular in Great Britain, France, and other European countries.
Everyone loves a good deal - and many are willing to eat good - but less fresh food - for cheap.
Like super cheap. Affordable for everyone cheap.
Here’s Tessa McLean’s experience from SFGate
In my hand is a heavy brown paper bag packed full of eight pieces of produce, a ham and goat cheese sandwich, a loaf of seeded country bread, a fancy looking almond pound cake, two chocolate sea salt cookies and a pack of pita bread. Somehow, I only paid $5.99 for this haul that will feed me in various ways for at least a week.
6 bucks. That’s it - and every one of those items sound delicious.
The best part of Too Good to Go is that this creates a Win Win Win scenario for everyone.
Too Good to Go makes money off the sale
The restaurant/bakery makes some money off product they would’ve made nothing from. Something is better than nothing.
Consumers eat good products for an affordable price
Less food is wasted
Check out the website at the link! They’re only in a few states right now, and I’m hoping they come to Nashville soon.
📺Video Podcasting
The days of “post it on Youtube and it will live forever” have been gone for several years now. Whether it’s the creeping censorship, inconsistent policy enforcement, nonsensical copyright enforcement, or a host of other issues, Youtube is a lot less friendly these days.
How can you ensure that your content gets out to your audience - but without worrying about its deletion in 5 years because you accidentlally had a movie poster in the background?
Well, there’s a brand new sherrif in town, and I can’t believe it hasn’t existed sooner!
It’s called Streambus, and the premise is simple
Get a website, publish like a podcast. When you publish with Streambus, you create a website, on your own domain name. Reach your audience over RSS on the podcast apps they already have on their phone. It’s like your own indie Netflix. It’s your brand and you own the data. There's no algorithm, no ads in front of your videos, no bot accusing you of copyright violations. It's your channel. We just make the tools. (Source)
It’s a brilliant idea. Whether you charge for your content, or make your content free, people can subscribe directly - or via a podcast app. Easy peasy.
Well, what are you waiting for? Sign up for the beta!
🐙The Land of Random
Andddd it’s random time
Fairuseify
This interesting site claims that it will take any song and make it fair use. Huh. Check it out!
Tiny Home
It’s so beautiful 😭😭😭😭😭
Kmart Tapes
This awesome podcast details the work of Mark Davis, who saved Kmart music/announcement tapes from the 90’s. It’s retro vaporwave awesomeness. Listen to the tapes here, or click the link for the podcast.
Gradient Generator
Need to generate a gradient? This epic little site can do it for you. Lots of cool options too!
Relive the Ipod
Scroll on back to the MP3 player glory days - but from Spotify or Apple Music. Not gonna lie - I’d love a Ipod with bluetooth and Spotify. Of course, you could build your own . . .
Interactive EP
Probably one of the most creative websites for a music release I’ve ever seen.
🎵TikToks You Can’t Miss
You should be asking 4chan this question
yes plz so now take my money magical new snack
I really, really want to figure out how to make these
Pull the chute. PULL THE CHUTE oh thank you5
Skimboard the waterpark?
I remember reading about this darkweb nightmare
Don’t . . . don’t touch that
That’s all for this time. See you next week!
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/facebook-tops-list-visited-websites-2010-beating-google-time-article-1.150003
https://www.wired.com/2010/12/mf-spotify/
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2012721_2012728_2012745,00.html
https://www.businessinsider.com/most-watched-youtube-videos-2010-2010-12#1-the-gregory-brothers-schmoyoho--bed-intruder-song-10
In all honesty I thought I was on that side if tiktok.