Interface

Some people take tens of photos every month. Other people take thousands. With the immediacy and accessibility of photography in the modern world, is a photograph as meaningful or valuable as it was when you paid for film? And what do we do with out 10,000 photos once we've collected them? * Loss aversion - Wikipedia * Artifact Uprising | Custom Photo Books & Gifts * Dronies! * Silhouette - Wikipedia * Clay Bavor * The Technium: Better Than Free

After a week of celebrating our 1-year Birthday, the trio is back with a look at working remotely - that is, embracing the home office and still working on things that exist within the traditional business sense. It takes skill, focus, and self-motivation, but it can be a wonderful reprieve from the traditional office, especially when replacing your coworkers isn't a viable option. * Top 10 Benefits of Working From Home (Survey Results) * Telecommuting Trend: Remote Work Becoming Commonplace * Telecommuniting is Fast on the Rise * Telecommuniting Climbs to 37% * The Death of the Office * Benefits of Working from Home for Employees and Employers * Zombie Malls

If you've been a long time listener, you might recall episode 7, where we discussed TV consumption and streaming TV. Now, in 315-day-old follow-up, Chase has cancelled SlingTV and Ian is testing out the recently released YouTube TV. The question is, outside of sports, does anybody watch anything live? And is the TV (as in the panel on your wall or entertainment center) becoming a relic of the past? * Interface Episode 7: Push Button, Receive TV * YouTube TV review: The cord-cutter's dream is still a long way away * YouTube TV needs more channels, but it gets the basics right * What DirecTV Now means for the future of TV * The Future of TV isn’t apps | TechCrunch * How Millennials Consume TV Depends on Which Stage of Life They’re In – Adweek * YouTube Is Crushing Cable TV, According To Google | The Huffington Post * CivicScience | Gen Z Is All About Streaming

Andrew borked the recording this week, so now you have to hear his crappo Skype version. Ian is happy, though, because it means less editing for him. * Vinyl Me, Please * Crema.co * Cleanly * Blue Apron * Local Harvest * Winc (Wine Subscription) * Help me fire the maid * 🍁💨 subscription?

Andrew and his wife just bought a house, but now they have some renovations they'd like to do. The problem is, Andrew doesn't have a large tool collection, and he's not entirely sure where to start. * The Sweethome * The Wirecutter * MN Tool Library * Tragedy Of The Commons

Okay, Google, turn off the lights. Here's what I found for "turn off the lights." Hot, single electricians in your area! Only ten dollars a minute. Call now! Did you want new lightbulbs? Your preferences indicate a desire for the maximum possible savings. Placing an order for 50,000 lightbulbs to save you one half a cent per bulb compared to a five-pack. Users who bought lightbulbs also bought 30,000 feet of knob-and-tube wiring. Did you know that 13% of structural fires in the United States are electrical in nature? You have three calendar events today. And today is the premiere in theatres of Grown Ups 3. Based on your viewing habits, I purchased tickets for the entire theatre. * 🎶BEAUTY AND THE BEAST even if you don't want it🎶 * Turns out the police want to get access to all the Amazon Echo recordings that Amazon claims they don't have * I can't resist linking to this Disney MagicBand story as often as possible * Target let a girl's dad know she was pregnant before she did * Drop The The * The New York Times is the best at reporting. Very few people would claim otherwise. Just liars would! Sad and pathetic. They have the strongest — the best in the world — subscriber numbers. Strong & amazing! * Really Bad Chess (is good) * Overcast's subscription model * Millenials don't click on ads OMG * Ian figured out how to make Amazon stop targeting you with ads * Yo waddap apparently Gorillaz leaked shit

I've definitely seen this one before. I can't quite put my finger on where — Facemash? Soundjammers? Twibbles? Show me again, website. Yes, I'm sure I've watched this before. I remember making it. We marinated the chicken in mayo, which made it extra juicy! (Ed: this actually works.) Here's the thing. When I saw it, there was a person there, more than just hands. A face and a personality, you know? And yet here we are with a twenty-five second portrait video compressed to hell and claiming to be something else. Who would do such a thing? Do you really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and steal content? * Everything is a Remix (See also) * Mystery Science Theatre 3000 and Rifftrax * Ship of Theseus * 🧀Cheesy Pasta🍝 * A capella maybe isn't as dumb as I thought: Skyrim Theme Straight No Chaser Star Wars/John Williams * As long as we're talking about compositions with a single instrument, how about some Zoë Keating? Andrew's Favorite Mashups * Brahms v Radiohead — A mashup of Brahms' 1st Symphony and OK Computer, then re-scored and arranged for orchestra. See also. More. I'll spare you Copland v Bon Iver because I'm sure you'd rather listen to good music. * Mouth Moods — So bad, so dumb, so brilliant. Reanimated pop music, Frankenstein's Monster-style. If Robot Chicken did music and loved Smashmouth. I can't recommend it enough/stay far away. * Girl Talk — Feed the Animals — Basically my entire pop music vocabulary comes from this. A virtuoso-level combination of rap, pop, folk, and rock together into something that becomes more than its parts. The ur-mashup. Also came on a super-cool matte black CD that basically never left my car stereo. * Daft Science — Daft Punk + Beastie Boys. Cut/pasted/mixed/resampled. I love it. * Call me a Hole — Hey, and this is crazy, but I just met you, so HEAD LIKE A HOLE * Shake it Off (The Perfect Drug) — Modern pop goes really well with Nine Inch Nails. Who would have thought? * Both albums by the Avalanches — Not technically mashups, but really excellent music derived entirely from samples. Basically Ian's kryptonite.

After roughly 6 years of flings with various Android devices, Chase has found true love and happiness with an iPhone 6S. Moving from Android to iOS can't be without pain points, though, right? Changing apps, different content providers, a keyboard that is hard to punctuate… how will he adjust? And what's the cost of switching platforms in the current state of technology? * Nexus 6 * Switch to iPhone * How to Switch to iPhone: A Guide * Would moving paid apps make switching easier? * Social and Network Effects in Mobile Service Platform Switching

When we were kids, we rode bikes and played outside. Today's kids are buried in their devices, and experiencing the world through a tiny glass window. But what happens next? How does it change the way they interact as they grow up? What dependencies does it form? * Nomophobia - Wikipedia * Another podcast called Interface * Snapchat by the numbers * Teens talk about Finstagram accounts - Business Insider * 'Why Kids Sext' Describes Nude Photos As 'Social Currency' Among Teens : All Tech Considered : NPR * Teens have changed the meaning of 'tbh' - Business Insider

We've created a playlist of songs we (the algorithm) think you'll love, based on a mysterious set of features. Here's a preview: * Call Me Maybe * Leaving on a Jet Plane * In Da Club * Back in Black * Mrs. Robinson Are you excited? …No? …but the algorithm. How could it be wrong? -+- Links at ianfuchs.xyz/43 -+- * How to master Apple Music liking system to influence ‘For You’ recommendations * The magic that makes Spotify’s Discover Weekly playlists so damn good — Quartz * GroupLens * How does the Netflix movie recommendation algorithm work? - Quora * The "millennial whoop" is taking over pop music - YouTube * Pandora - Music Genome Project ® * How Netflix Revamped Recommendations for it's New Global Audience * Netflix Never Used Its $1 Million Algorithm Due To Engineering Costs | WIRED * xkcd: Python * The Netflix Tech Blog: Netflix Recommendations: Beyond the 5 stars (Part 1) * The Netflix Tech Blog: Netflix Recommendations: Beyond the 5 stars (Part 2) * The Netflix Tech Blog: Recommending for the World * Adam WarRock | Overly Enthusiastic Hip Hop * Content-based Recommender Systems