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# This Week - Jun 27, 2014
- URL: https://www.drewshannon.net/this-week-2014-06-27/
- Published: 2014-06-27T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-14T03:10:21.000Z
- Author: Drew Shannon
- Tags: link, do you think you're pretty?, emily v gordon, glenn fleishman, jeff ullrich, jeff ulrich, midroll, morwenna ferrier, podcasts, the guardian, this week, #import-blog-backlog-2026-09-13

> Here is the primary argument for joining a network – and I’ll keep this short: you have better things to do. Some people mow their own lawn, others hire a landscaper. Some people buy used home exercise equipment off of Craigslist, others hire personal trainers. Some people make their own dinner, others go to a restaurant. It’s about opportunity cost.  
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> — [Podcast Networks Work Hard To Let Hosts Focus on Shows (Jeff Ulrich for Midroll)](http://www.midroll.com/podcast-networks-work-hard-let-hosts-focus-shows/?ref=drewshannon.net)

> Podcast networks have a future, but it’s in casting off more of the shackles and models that continue to constrain them. And this future vision may be so different from what we currently understand a podcast network to be that Marco may be right: the new model may need a new name that better defines its purposes. A pod of podcasts, not a network.  
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> — [Pick a Peck of Podcasts: Are Networks Still Relevant? (Glenn Fleishman for Glenn Fleishman)](http://glog.glennf.com/blog/2014/6/23/pick-a-peck-of-podcasts-are-networks-still-relevant?ref=drewshannon.net)

> This lack of visual disparity has probably led to society’s fondness for hipster-bashing. As Alex Miller, UK editor-in-chief of Vice, explains: “I couldn’t define a hipster. I guess it’s ‘The Other’. But as a general term it’s blown up because people finally realised they had a word to mock something cool and young which they didn’t understand.  
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> — [The end of the hipster: how flat caps and beards stopped being so cool (Morwenna Ferrier for The Guardian)](http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2014/jun/22/end-of-the-hipster-flat-caps-and-beards?ref=drewshannon.net)

> He said that work was what he did to make money to fund the things he cared about. This idea of having a job that makes going to work fun every single day and as fulfilling as hitting a home run while rescuing a baby and simultaneously getting a book deal for your Tumblr is mostly a myth and not something to keep changing careers until you find.  
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> — (Emily V. Gordon for *Do You Think You're Pretty?*)