Mike Rugnetta
Bio
Host of Never Post. Creator of Fun City, Reasonably Sound, Idea Channel and other internet things.Appears in 33 Episodes
Looks Great!
Mike talks with Jon Greenaway, aka litcritguy, about the horror of online food videos; Georgia talks with Katie Notopoulos about why you can’t personalize your social ...
Don't Panic
Mike talks about how and why some authentic media looks like it was generated by AI; Hans talks about KOSA – the Kids Online Safety Act – and how it is shaped by not o...
Post from the Field: Mike Goes to the Studio in the Rain
Episode coming later this week. For now: something meaningless.–Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/--☎️ Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail...
Mailbag #5
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A Feed to Call One’s Own
Georgia talks with communications scholar and privacy researcher Alice Marwick about “Are We Dating the Same Guy?” groups, and how hard it is to keep private communiti...
Our Dearly Decommissioned
We visit the funeral for CrowdTangle, a social listening app that was used by disinformation and human rights researchers. Mike talks with Dallas Taylor, host of the p...
The State of Podcasting Roundtable, Oct. 2024
Senior producer Hans Buetow leads a conversation with three makers and thinkers in the podcast space — Mia Lobel (Freelance Cafe, fmr. Pushkin Industries), Lauren Pass...
Where I'm At Right Now
Georgia talks to Cliff Lampe, Professor of Information at the UMich School of Information about how Find My has become indispensable technology of friendship in a hype...
Flashing Eyes In Which My Hopes Rise
Mike talks with Know Your Meme Editor-in-Chief Don Caldwell about the prevalence and decline of the Laser Eyes Meme, and the ever shifting place of internet memes in p...
XOXO Fest Live
Georgia talks with marketing consultant Bryce Whitwam and takes us in and out and further in – maybe further in than any of us have ever wanted to go – to the TikTok s...
#MemeingTheNews
Hans talks with Lia Haberman of the newsletter ICYMI about the ostensible death of the hashtag; Georgia talks with media scholar Whitney Phillips about catching breaki...
Mailbag #4
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To BRB Or Not To BRB
Contributing producer Victoria Dominguez attempts to understand the practice of digitally resurrecting deceased loved ones using artificial intelligence. Also: home mo...
Life in Plastic, It's Fantastic
Mike chats with EX Research about their new report which goes deep on Roblox, the massively multiplayer online game played by HALF of all American teenagers. Georgia t...
Everything Old Embeds Again
Mike talks with unsung internet pillar DylanPDX, steward of vxTwitter and others, who single-handedly does what Big Social doesn’t want - keeping your embeds working. ...
The Sound Files of Summer
An episode-long staff round-table about music library management with special guest Meghal Janardan. --Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/–Call us at...
Mailbag, Episodes 7-10
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Who Hires the Hiring Bots?
Georgia chats with Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter Hilke Schellmann about the job market, and the increasing prevalence of Artificial Intelligence in hiring....
Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places
Georgia digs deep into the enshittification of dating apps, and pays dearly as a result. Mike talks to Aftermath co-founder Luke Plunkett about recent, massive changes...
Everyone is a Journalish
The second and final installment of our two part collab with Slate’s ICYMI! Mike talks with mis- and disinformation researcher Joan Donovan about the line between goss...
ICYMI x NP: How Kate Middleton's Disappearance Redefined Monoculture
This week, we got TWO episodes coming at you - one today and one on Saturday. Both are a collaboration with the incredible team at the Slate Podcast ICYMI.In today's e...
Car Tok
Senior producer Hans Buetow investigates the transit vacuum that’ll be left when Uber and Lyft leave the Twin Cities; Mike looks at how the car has become a default se...
Interlude: Important Emails, Extended Cut
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Mailbag, Episodes 4-6
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Switched on Post
Contributing Producer Marie Kilaru discusses the emotional impacts of making and seeing Before and After posts; Charlie Harding of Switched on Pop joins Jason to talk ...
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Georgia and guest producer Luis wonder why there is so much audio online that seems to sound bad on purpose; Mike talks to Gabriele de Seta and Paolo Berti about how t...
As Per My Last Podcast Episode...
Hans wonders why ‘being informed’ is so exhausting, and if there’s anything he can do about it (short answer: sorta) and a few members of the Never Post team discuss “...
Mailbag, Episode 1-3
We respond to listener comments about independent media co-ops, the disappearance of tween fashion, posting disease, influencer voice, mourning online, and human heigh...