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February 2024

Folk search engines
Strategies better than plain Google.
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Elan Ullendorff
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Close reading the trees
How competitive Google Street Viewing makes the world feel seen
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Elan Ullendorff
1
Is Substack exaggerating its network effects?
The data tells the story writers want to hear... but is it true?
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Elan Ullendorff
12

January 2024

The Scan Artist
What it means to copy the world
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Elan Ullendorff
Be specific
Ode to ᵗᶦⁿʸ ᵗᵒᵒˡˢ
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Elan Ullendorff
1
The Real Divorcees of Facebook Marketplace
For sale: wife shoes, hardly worn
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Elan Ullendorff
1

December 2023

The New Turing Test
Changing the AI conversation
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Elan Ullendorff
2

November 2023

love letters to places i'll never meet
a spooky digital seance
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Elan Ullendorff
1

August 2023

For WIRED: Google's relentless search for answers
I wouldn’t ordinarily email you twice in one week, but I have an essay in WIRED today about Google, its philosophy of information retrieval, and how its…
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Elan Ullendorff
Foreskin’s Comment
What a Billie Eilish Youtube comment diarist can teach us about forging meaningful online rituals
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Elan Ullendorff
22

July 2023

Not your usual subscription confirmation
Or why you shouldn't ignore the back catalog
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Elan Ullendorff
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