Literally 2 Cents About Content!

Literally 2 Cents About Content! is a podcast about content mills and the broader concept of labeling all creative work ”content.” Why do we call everything anyone produces ”content”? How does this ”content” frame affect us as content consumers? And what types of conditions do content creators labor under?

Literally 2 Cents About Content! is a business podcast hosted by Alex and Liz, with 19 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Alex and Liz hosts Literally 2 Cents About Content!, a business show with 19 episodes published.

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  Episode #11

  The Nintendo 64 at 30

  May 3, 20262h 4m

  As we approach the 30th anniversary of its release, Alex and Liz look back quasi-fondly at the Nintendo 64, including: Its historical place, as the first Nintendo console to debut during Japan's Lost Decades and after the Cold War. Why it was so difficult to develop for, even for seasoned software shops. How it was in retrospect a failed attempt at what the Nintendo Switch ultimately achieved: a technical breakthrough that ran on old-fashioned ROM carts

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  Episode #10

  David Golumbia retrospective, part 1: "Is Wario cyberlibertarian?"

  Aug 16, 20251h 37mS0

  <p>Alex and Liz discuss only some of the works of linguist, philosopher, and academic David Golumbia, including: </p> The Cultural Logic of Computation (2009) The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism (2016) Cyberlibertarianism: The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology (2024) <p>Technology and Silicon Valley are often associated with left-leaning politics. Still, various causes (SOPA/PIPA discourse, internet publication and copyright discourse, digital innovation) have roots in libertarian or conservative and reactionary narratives. Golumbia’s work shows that it’s difficult (read: impossible) to divorce reactionary values from Silicon Valley and its staunchest supporters.</p> <p>Reading list:</p> The Great White...

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  Episode #9

  An insult to dumpsters and fires

  Mar 4, 20251h 19mS0

  <p>Alex and Liz talk about the Glassdoor reviews of their old employer, touch upon the depravity of working for an SEO content mill, and compare monopoly and monopsony.</p> The classic Popula article about working at this very content mill. What is monopsony? Liz's site Alex's blog

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  Episode #8

  Book club: Kate Manne's "Unshrinking"

  Oct 18, 20241h 26mS0

  <p>Alex and Liz take a look at Kate Manne's 2024 book, Unshrinking: How to face fatphobia. Along the way, they examine some of the key assumptions that drive widespread fatphobia in contemporary society, what the point of weight loss is supposed to be, the history of hazardous weight-loss treatments, and how Manne's book intersects with other publications by Ragen Chastain, Abigail C. Saguy, Paul Campos, and Paul Ernsberger.</p> Ragen Chastain on weight loss as a prescription Chastain on how weight-loss studies are often deliberately misleading Abigail C. Saguy's book. Paul Campos' book and blog. 1989 debate over whether "obesity" is...

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  Episode #7

  Unspoiled paradise of streaming content

  Jun 19, 20241h 24mS0

  <p>Liz and Alex talk about streaming, why its business model is so lousy compared to cable, the social aspects of watching TV vs the isolation of streaming, how sports holds linear TV together, and why it feels more sustainable to support individual creators than to pay for a bundle.</p> Liz's website Alex's blog How the Criterion Channel works The failed promise of binge TV The life and death of Hollywood

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