Speaking of Longreads (see the post below), Longreads.com has released their best of 2024, which is broken into numerous categories. They always compile the best best-of list of the year:

Best of 2024 - Longreads

Since 2011, Longreads editors and contributors have compiled the most notable reads of the year in our annual Best of Longreads collections. We’re continuing this tradition for 2024, with a few new changes that we hope you’ll enjoy. Bookmark this page, where we’ll share all of our Best of 2024 lists through December. Thank you, […]

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I hate linking to Bloomberg, but I do appreciate their annual Jealousy list, wherein their reporters list the articles published at other outlets that they themselves wish they'd written.

Here's the 2024 Jealousy List. Previous years have archive links on the page.

This is an extraordinary page about The Moon. Anything and everything you ever wanted to know about the moon in one place.

The page has been making the rounds for a few weeks and I'd played with it a bit but only did the deep dive today and therefore, I'm now ready to share. I give you The Moon.

Each year, we ask some of the smartest people in journalism and media what they think is coming in the next 12 months. At the end of a trying 2024, here’s what they had to say.

Nieman Lab’s Predictions for Journalism 2025

Each year, we ask some of the smartest people in journalism and digital media what they think is coming in the next 12 months. Here’s what they had to say.

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Glance Back offers a unique take "journaling":

With this Chrome extension, once a day at random when you open a new tab, Glance Back will quickly snap a photo of you and inquire: “What are you thinking about?”. Once you type your answer and press enter, the photo and thought will be collectively saved to your history of glances, cumulatively creating an archive of moments you share with your screen.

In My Machine and Me, Greta Rainbow chronicles a year of using Glance Back for the Los Angeles Review of Books:

My time-lapse is documentation of a working woman slowly aging. An accumulation in lockstep with decay, and my screen is a grave marker. I’m getting better at writing, here. I’m deepening my frown lines, here.

The Royal Institute of British Architecture has awarded Six Columns their house of the year.

It is indeed a wonderful space, but I think I prefer Eavesdrop, one of shortlisted selections:

Modulus Matrix, a Community Housing project, took the International Prize.

More on the contest, including the other Shortlisted properties, on RIBA's website.

Specatacular GoPro footage of cliff jumper Laura Marino doing her thing. The film is co-created by Mathieu Brulard.

More on Geddes' site, including timed releases in his shop.

RollAway is a new company offering rental of an e-Van with a 5-star makeover. They launched a few months ago in the San Francisco Bay area and, presumably, will offer more vehicles in more locations in the future.

I love travel and unorthodox approaches to entrenched systems so this struck a chord with me.

More on the RollAway website.

Just reading the collected short stories in Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte and they are brutally good. As the NYT says, "Tony Tulathimutte’s new stories center on the young, alienated, unloved people you can’t stop watching."

The first story, The Feminist, was published in N+1 and is free to read. It knocked me out, as I was friends with someone in the 90s who is pretty much this character through and through. He was my first encounter with Mens Rights Activists and thankfully I've managed to avoid in-depth conversations with others in the movement ever since.