Ernie Smith

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(He/Him)

Arts and Entertainment, Media, Politics, Technology

As seen in: Tedium Newsletter

Covers: technology, pop culture, history, sociology, obscurity, nonprofits, associations, offbeat, industry news, B2B

Doesn't Cover: News without a relevant hook to my content focuses.

Newsletter author, AI-free search enthusiast. Account is inactive unless my wife can’t log into Hulu. Find me on Mastodon and Bluesky. #udm14

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My twice-weekly newsletter that takes a deep-dive into the depths of the long tail. The newsletter is widely …

In late 2008, after getting laid off from a newspaper job, I set out to build a site that broke down news int…

One of my main projects at Manifest has been running this site for ASAE's Associations Now, which had a limit…

A 3,000+ word deep dive into the true story of the first popular Nintendo Entertainment System emulator for t…

One of my most popular Tedium pieces, this story highlighted the unlikely circumstances that led to the creat…

As the Cold War thawed, Microsoft was there with a chisel to break the ice. The story of how Microsoft became…

How Hot Pockets made billionaires out of two Iranian Jews who used their wealth to help revive the culture th…

If you’d like to push the envelope with an email message, you might be in for a world of pain. Like web desig…