Moving On, Moving Up

As the internet has changed with the addition of social media, influencer culture, YouTube, Twitch and a multibillion-dollar online gaming industry, so has the nature of online predation.

Digg Editions Morning · Wed, Feb 20

SPONSORED BY

GOOD RIDDANCE PREYING ON PARASOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS When Your Favorite Streamer Turns Out To Be A Creep (Or Worse) kotaku.com As the internet has changed with the addition of social media, influencer culture, YouTube, Twitch and a multibillion-dollar online gaming industry, so has the nature of online predation. LAYERS WITH NO DEPTH Parallax Scrolling Needs To Die fastcompany.com It's an outdated attention-goosing technique that most designers will probably be embarrassed to look back on. OUR HERO Why I Deleted All Of My Social Media And 60,000 Followers petapixel.com At the least, social media trains us to stay within the lane of our "brand." At its worst, social media changes the way we create, fundamentally. SPEED WE DIGG | SPONSORED Fast Internet At A Great Price (For Two Years!) And Netflix Included! verizon.com Switch to Fios's 100% fiber-optic gigabit internet and get a year of Netflix to go with it, because you're going to need a lot of video to use up all the bandwidth. PIE IN THE SKY HERE COMES THE BOON 15 People On How A Financial Windfall Changed Their Lives topic.com Topic asked over a dozen people how gifts, insurance payouts, the MacArthur Genius Award, book deals — ranging from $8,000 to over $1 million — were spent. A STELLAR ACHIEVEMENT This Breathtaking 80 Megapixel Image Of The Moon Was Made From 50,000 Photos digg.com It was a combination of ingenuity and incredible patience that allowed photographer Andrew McCarthy to capture this level of detail of our moon. WEAK LINKS IN THE CHAIN Once Hailed As Unhackable, Blockchains Are Now Getting Hacked technologyreview.com More and more security holes are appearing in cryptocurrency and smart contract platforms, and some are fundamental to the way they were built. VIDEO OF THE DAY SUGAR AND SPICE ARE NOT ALL THAT NICE Science Teacher Uses Experiment To Demonstrate The Crazy Amount Of Sugar In A Soda digg.com After evaporating all the water in a 600-milliliter cream soda, Jacob Strickling, a science teacher in South Wales, shows that there are at least 50 grams of sugar contained in a soft drink. IN THE NEWS Google Claims Built-In Nest Mic Was 'Never Intended To Be A Secret' Elon Musk Dials Back Tesla Production Forecast, Hours After Making It A Commercial Flight Hit An Absurdly Fast 801 MPH While Flying Over The United States One Of Anime's Biggest Voices, Victor Mignogna, Accused Of Sexual Harassment DIGG PICKS Stay Warm With Huckberry's Sweater Sale huckberry.com Get up to 50% off of all sweaters at Huckberry while supplies last. Here's to being smart enough for a Genius Grant and/or lucky enough to win the lottery. View the Edition at Digg.com »

Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2019 Digg Inc. 50 Eldridge Street 2nd Floor, NY, NY 10002