Cybercultural Archive (2019-2022)

In this week’s free weekly Cybercultural newsletter, I look at the problem of archiving cultural content from magazines, blogs, musicians and video gamers – and why it matters. Have you ever had any of these issues lately while trying to access content? You wrote a blog in the early to late 2000s, but it’s long…

Welcome Cybercultural subscribers! Like chiselled Jeff Bezos, I’m ready to get straight down to the business of the day… 💪 What You Need To Know 👀 Amazon’s Plan to Conquer the World of Publishing 📚 Fascinating analysis of Amazon Publishing, the retail giant’s book publishing subsidiary, by The Atlantic: “As Amazon Studios does with movies,…

Welcome to the first subscriber-only edition of Cybercultural! First a quick note about how I intend to format these emails… You’ll notice some familiar sections – Data Points will now be exclusive to subscribers, for example. The main new thing in subscriber-only emails will be a What You Need To Know section, at the top.…

I’m pleased to announce I’m launching paid subscriptions for the Cybercultural newsletter. Here’s what this means: Starting Monday, I’ll be publishing 3 emails per week for paid subscribers. The cost is $7 per month (or $70 per year, if you’d prefer to pay annually). Subscribe now Paid subscribers will receive three emails per week, on…

The theme of this week’s newsletter is pop culture activities we used to do, but have since been replaced by other, typically online, things. I’ve selected three endangered cultural activities to analyse: Reading books. Going to a movie theatre. Listening to albums. All three were a big part of the culture in the analog era,…

For this week’s Cybercultural newsletter, I partnered with consumer insights platform Alpha to survey 324 people about their online gaming habits. The resulting data and insights, exclusive to Cybercultural, are presented in this edition of the newsletter. In case you didn’t know, online gaming is now a huge cultural content market. Last weekend the Fortnite…

The theme of this week’s Cybercultural newsletter is paper to digital; and how that transition is going for news media, magazines, and books. All three sectors have been forced to migrate from a largely paper platform to an increasingly digital one. In the US, print consumption of news has dropped from 47% in 2013 to…

  This week’s Cybercultural newsletter looks into internet platform dominance in the cultural sectors. I examine three recent news stories on this theme. In the first one, YouTube’s bullying tactics over its competitors and partners are laid bare. But two other, more positive, stories show how challengers constantly arise to take on the big internet…

This week’s Cybercultural newsletter examines the micropayments market from the perspective of the cultural industries. I dig into what micropayment solutions are currently available – or are upcoming, in the case of Facebook’s Libra – and provide analysis of where this market is headed. First, let’s take a look at what’s happening around the traps:…

Welcome back to Cybercultural, a weekly newsletter covering the intersection of technology and the cultural industries. Let’s start with a quick look at what’s happening this week, before my US readers head off to celebrate Independence Day: On a personal note, my nearly 15-month old son started at daycare for a couple of days a…