Interesting new websites are few and far between

When I started Tech-media-tainment in 2008, I liked to spotlight interesting new websites. Back then, creative types would make websites to explore an interesting or funny idea.
Sometime later they stopped creating websites and switched to making specialized accounts on social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
More recently they’ve put their creative energies into making memes that can be shared online.
This all adds up to fewer interesting new websites.
What follows are the latest interesting websites that I’d like to highlight.

Litquidity

Instagram account Litquidity parodies Wall Street firms and day traders with funny graphics, charts, photos and videos, aka “dank memes.” (See article by Business Insider.)

Culture+Typography

Culture+Typography is a blog about how culture can affect typography. It’s the work of graphic design professional Nikki Villagomez.

Cat Memes Only

Cat Memes Only is a collection of cat-themed memes on Tumblr. Nuff said.

Titania McGrath

Titania McGrath is a parody Twitter account created and run by comedian Andrew Doyle.

McGrath is a fictional 24-year-old "radical intersectionalist poet committed to feminism, social justice and armed peaceful protest" who identifies as non-binary, "polyracial" and ecosexual, according to Wikipedia.

Kobe Bryant Mural Locations

Kobe Bryant Mural Locations is a passion project by Mike Asner of Los Angeles. The site spotlights the many murals devoted to the late Lakers basketball great who died in a helicopter crash with his daughter Gianna.
The website currently lists 277 murals, of which 189 are in Southern California.

Worldometer

Worldometer makes world statistics available online in a thought-provoking and timely format. I especially like the Worldometer coronavirus update page that covers the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Numbers

Speaking of statistics and the Covid-19 pandemic, The Numbers website features a plethora of information about the movie industry. The website’s Movie Release Schedule page is particularly useful during the pandemic as movie theater reopenings get delayed.

FirstShowing

Another good website for checking ever-shifting movie release dates is FirstShowing.

Daily Mail

There are news websites that provide a healthy diet of journalism (New York Times, Washington Post, etc.). And there are news websites that serve up tasty junk food. In the later category is the Daily Mail, which is the online equivalent of tabloid journalism.

SmartNews

Finally, this last favorite website leads to a smartphone app. SmartNews is a leading global news discovery service. The SmartNews app surfaces news articles of interest using machine learning technology. The service is fairly addictive.

Photo at top: SmartNews app