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2021-06-20 DIGEST: ATTENTIONS, WHALES, AND HOURS
In the past week we found 3,556 unique links from 225 emails, sourcing from 91 newsletters.
The most linked story of the week was The Amazon That Customers Don’t See.
As seen in 12 newsletters; Axios Log-In, Box Of Amazing, Links I Would Gchat You, Longform, Morning Brew, Muck Rack Daily, Next Draft, Numlock News, Ritholtz's Reads, TMN Headlines, Techmeme.
7-DAY ROLLING AVERAGE OF APPEARANCE RATE OF TOP LINKS IN THE PAST MONTH
The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
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May 21 Jun 20
As seen in 1440, 5 Smart Reads, Fair Warning, Five Things, Internet Brunch, Longform, Morning Brew, Muck Rack Daily, Need2Know, Newley's Notes, Next Draft, Non-Obvious, Numlock News, P.S. You Should Know, Platformer, TMN Headlines, The Ann Friedman Weekly, The Morning Missive, The Sunday Long Read, Today In Tabs, Welcome To Hell World.
America Has a Drinking Problem
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May 21 Jun 20
As seen in 2PM, Digg, Link Me Up Scotty!, Links I Would Gchat You, Longform, Morning Brew, Next Draft, Nisha's Internet Tote Bag, Public Announcements, Ritholtz's Reads, Shit from the Internet, Swissmiss, The Ann Friedman Weekly, The Breads, The Sunday Long Read, Web Curious.
The Amazon That Customers Don’t See
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May 21 Jun 20
As seen in Axios Log-In, Box Of Amazing, Links I Would Gchat You, Longform, Morning Brew, Muck Rack Daily, Next Draft, Numlock News, Ritholtz's Reads, TMN Headlines, Techmeme.
The Lab-Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover COVID-19’s Origins
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May 21 Jun 20
As seen in Box Of Amazing, Journal, Links, Longform, Muck Rack Daily, Next Draft, Ritholtz's Reads, The Ann Friedman Weekly, The Morning Missive, The Sunday Long Read, Why Is This Interesting?.
Farewell, Millennial Lifestyle Subsidy
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May 21 Jun 20
As seen in Links, Lorem Ipsum, Morning Brew, Muck Rack Daily, Next Draft, Ritholtz's Reads, TMN Headlines, The Ann Friedman Weekly, The Breads, The Roundup, The Sunday Long Read.
How the World Ran Out of Everything
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May 21 Jun 20
As seen in 2PM, Box Of Amazing, Digg, Garbage Day, Morning Brew, Muck Rack Daily, Next Draft, Strands of Genius, TMN Headlines.
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May 21 Jun 20
As seen in Arts and Leisure Daily, Box Of Amazing, Creative Mornings, Links I Would Gchat You, Morning Brew, Ritholtz's Reads, The Sunday Long Read, Warning: Graphic Content, Weekly Filet.
The Curious Rise of Twitter Power Broker Yashar Ali
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May 21 Jun 20
As seen in Links I Would Gchat You, Longform, Morning Brew, Muck Rack Daily, Secret Email Club, The Media Today, The Sunday Long Read, Today In Tabs.
THREE RANDOM LINKS THAT APPEARED JUST ONCE THIS MONTH
The Me You Can't See | Apple TV+
As seen in 5-Bullet Friday.
As seen in Public Announcements.
Sourcing from the following newsletters: 10 Things, 1440, 2PM, 5 Smart Reads, 5-Bullet Friday, 5ish, API Need To Know, Arts and Leisure Daily, Austin Kleon, Axios Log-In, Axios World, B3ta, BNet, Because The Internet, Below The Fold, Benedict Evans, Big Technology, Box Of Amazing, Brain Food, Brain Pickings, Brass Ring Daily, Bullet Points, Chiwi Journal, Creative Mornings, Curiosity, Curiosity Weekly, Curious Electric News, Daily Pnut, Data is Plural, Deez Links, Digg, Domestic Data Streamers, Drinking From The Firehose, Electric Speed, Elevator, Etcetera, Everything in Moderation, Fair Warning, Finding Beauty, Five Links, Five Things, Fives Best Ideas Of The Day, For The Curious, Garbage Day, Girls' Night In, Hacker News, Internet Brunch, Jemison, Jocelyn K. Glei, Journal, Laura Olin, Lily Lines, Link Me Up Scotty!, Links, Links I Would Gchat You, Longform, Lorem Ipsum, Matt's Thoughts In Between, Media Genius, Milk, No Sugar, Monday Musings, Morning Brew, Muck Rack Daily, Need2Know, Newley's Notes, Next Draft, Nisha's Internet Tote Bag, Noah Kalina, Non-Obvious, Nonostantement, Noticing, Numlock News, On Brand, P.S. You Should Know, Platformer, Pluralistic, Pop Culture Happy Hour, PopBitch, Public Announcements, Quartz Obsession, Radio Lab, Reasons To Be Cheerful, Recomendo, Ritholtz's Reads, Rusty's Electric Dreams, Secret Email Club, Semi-Rad, Sentiers, Shelter, Shit from the Internet, Sidebar, Slugs, Spark Edition, Storythings, Strands of Genius, Swissmiss, TMN Headlines, Techmeme, Tedium, The Ann Friedman Weekly, The Breads, The Collected AHP, The Cramm, The Curious Corners Of The Internet, The Daily Dose, The Daily Respite, The Friyay Fuel, The Good Trade, The Highlighter, The Hustle Daily, The Land Of Random, The Lunch Read, The Media Today, The Monday Medley, The Morning Missive, The Roundup, The Skimm, The Sunday Long Read, The Week That Was, The What, The Whippet, Things I Think Are Awesome, Things To Click, Three Banana Thursday, Today In Tabs, University of Winds, WTF Just Happened Today?, Warning: Graphic Content, Web Curious, Weekly Filet, Weekly Thing, Welcome To Hell World, What Happened Last Week?, What's The Difference?, Why Is This Interesting?.
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We subscribe to newsletters that fit the following criteria:
- Publish anywhere from daily to bi-weekly
- The primary purpose is to share links
- The majority of links are to other places
- It leans towards general interest, not about niche topic
The newsletter is 100% automated. Every hour, a Google Script runs that parses the links from the emails and saves them to a log dump. Every day, another script runs that checks the last few emails from each sender, and updates a denylist to exclude links that are repeated in the newsletter (e.g., links to socials). Links to the newsletter's domain (i.e. self-promotion) are filtered out.
Data for the charts are computed, including a a 7-day rolling average of rate of newsletter appearances. Title tags are grabbed from the links meta data, and common nouns are extracted here, and randomly chosen to create the subject line. Finally, all the content is rendered (daily to this page, and weekly to an email blast).
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