Internet Friends
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Drew Coffman and Jon Mitchell met on the internet in 2012. It was a whole different internet back then. This is a podcast about what’s changed, where it’s going, and what it’s doing to our always-online society.

38: Whac-A-Mole

Seems like as good a time as any — okay, maybe good is a strong word — to revisit the topic of Twitter. Between the worldwide plague of grotesque elec...
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37: Dracula Keyboard

Drew has a surprise for Jon! It’s an AlphaSmart Neo 2, a dedicated word processor. Jon, for his part, is thinking about buying a bass. They’re both se...
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36: Push and Pull

For a while, our tools were no better at handling information overload than our brains were, but that’s starting to change. Jon and Drew discuss the n...
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35: Protective Amulets

Jon and Drew discuss the next-generation augmented reality interface that Apple has already released into the world: AirPods. Jon got the new AirPods ...
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34: Demoted From Power User

Both Jon and Drew are slowly wearing out from the constant grind of new third-party apps and — even more so — from the pursuit of ever more automation...
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33: You Captured the Bear

Drew’s new phone has him wanting to talk about cameras. Photography is moving away from being a technical practice requiring lots of tool-specific kno...
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32: Tyranny of the Urgent

Drew needs an intervention. He’s reached that all-too-familiar point at which all the tools and processes and ways of doing stuff with computers stop ...
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31: Spies, Thieves, and Ads

Jon hates the web. It’s full of spies and thieves and ads. Not the technologies that power the web; those are great. The system of destination website...
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30: I-Thou Relationship

Drew has been working on a theory of a patronage model for online creativity and shopping it around to anyone who will listen. Jon is a big subscriber...
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