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Hosted by Alex and Liz · business · EN · 19 episodes
Literally 2 Cents About Content! is a podcast about content mills and the broader concept of labeling all creative work ”content.” Why do we call everything anyone produces ”content”? How does this ”content” frame affect us as content consumers? And what types of conditions do content creators labor under?
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Signup to Generate a PitchLiterally 2 Cents About Content! is a podcast about content mills and the broader concept of labeling all creative work ”content.” Why do we call everything anyone produces ”content”? How does this ”content” frame affect us as content consumers? And what types of conditions do content creators labor under?
Literally 2 Cents About Content! is hosted by Alex and Liz. The show has published 19 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "The Nintendo 64 at 30" (3 May 2026, 124 minutes), "David Golumbia retrospective, part 1: "Is Wario cyberlibertarian?"" (16 August 2025, 97 minutes), and "An insult to dumpsters and fires" (5 March 2025, 79 minutes).
Literally 2 Cents About Content! publishes roughly every few months, with episodes averaging 75 minutes across 19 episodes.
Booking probability for Literally 2 Cents About Content! is 18%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Literally 2 Cents About Content! requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Literally 2 Cents About Content!'s contact route on record: public web form.
The strongest fits for Literally 2 Cents About Content! are Libraries, Archives & Web Portals and Marketing, Advertising & PR. Literally 2 Cents About Content! has a business audience.
Alex and Liz hosts Literally 2 Cents About Content!, a business show with 19 episodes published.
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Episode #11
As we approach the 30th anniversary of its release, Alex and Liz look back quasi-fondly at the Nintendo 64, including: Its historical place, as the first Nintendo console to debut during Japan's Lost Decades and after...
Episode #10
<p>Alex and Liz discuss only some of the works of linguist, philosopher, and academic David Golumbia, including: </p> The Cultural Logic of Computation (2009) The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism...
Episode #9
<p>Alex and Liz talk about the Glassdoor reviews of their old employer, touch upon the depravity of working for an SEO content mill, and compare monopoly and monopsony.</p> The classic Popula article about working at...
Episode #8
<p>Alex and Liz take a look at Kate Manne's 2024 book, Unshrinking: How to face fatphobia. Along the way, they examine some of the key assumptions that drive widespread fatphobia in contemporary society, what the point...
Episode #7
<p>Liz and Alex talk about streaming, why its business model is so lousy compared to cable, the social aspects of watching TV vs the isolation of streaming, how sports holds linear TV together, and why it feels more...
Episode #6
<p>Liz and Alex lay into their most despised words from the content mill industry, from "dynamic content" and "content management system" to "optimize" and "authentic." Also covered: video game DLC (that's "downloadable...
Episode #5
<p>Alex and Liz dig their claws into "AI," this time focusing on some recent hype-y conferences Liz attended in Chicago and Las Vegas. We also look at cyberlibertarianism, the difficulties that LLMs have with ambiguity...
Episode #4
<p>Alex and Liz talk about what really makes digital content different from physical and analog equivalents, and what distinctive ideological concepts—"everything's binary, monopolies are good, technology itself is the...
Episode #3
<p>Alex and Liz talk about the hottest topic out there—"AI," or "artificial intelligence" (quotes because we're a little skeptical of it being in any way "intelligent"), with a look at some recent essays that explore...
Episode #2
<p>Alex and Liz talk about their time at the content mill, how it was all about ghost writing, what techniques they honed by doing that (such as learning how to easily add 100-200 superfluous words to any article's...
Literally 2 Cents About Content!
<p>Alex and Liz talk about Mastodon, the open social network that uses a federated design that works somewhat similarly to email. We also explain ActivityPub, the W3C-sanctioned protocol that underpins Mastodon and...
Literally 2 Cents About Content!
<p>Alex and Liz talk about Jenny Odell's "How to Do Nothing," this time focusing on how information overload and context collapse make it difficult to do what you want to do. We also make a brief detour into "This is...
Literally 2 Cents About Content!
<p>Alex and Liz look at "How to do Nothing" by Jenny Odell, talk about Twitter, TikTok, and Mastodon and their respective effects on our mental health, and even spin out a hot take on David Foster Wallace's legendary...
Literally 2 Cents About Content!
<p>Liz and Alex dive deep into Mark Fisher's seminal 2009 surprise best seller, "Capitalist Realism." Topics explored include how society individualizes mental illness, why there's this widespread conception of "gritty"...
Literally 2 Cents About Content!
<p>Alex and Liz talk about the coping strategies they witnessed from their managers at the content mill. Interested in doing the work of your direct reports for them? Want to work with clients who don't respond to...
Literally 2 Cents About Content!
<p>Liz’s website: lizmakesstuff.com</p> <p>Left Anchor: https://www.leftanchor.com</p> <p>Strunk and White’s Macho Grammar Club: https://www.thedailybeast.com/strunk-and-whites-macho-grammar-club</p> <p>Neil Patel, who...
Literally 2 Cents About Content!
<p>Alex and Liz talk about the one topic you can never ever write about at content mills. Also included are two on-air readings of archetypal content mill content, except we break that taboo and write about He Who Shall...
Literally 2 Cents About Content!
<p>Alex and Liz talk about algorithms and how they select and serve content, with an extended riff on an academic paper about bureaucracy (don't worry! we make it easy to understand). Also, if you've ever wondered what...
Literally 2 Cents About Content!
<p>Alex and Liz talk about IMDb What to Watch, a new app for trying to find that one pearl in the sea of "endless streaming content," through gamification. Will it work? We’re skeptical. And wasn't consuming content...
Literally 2 Cents About Content!
<p>Welcome to Literally 2 Cents About Content!, the podcast about what it’s like to write thousands of words per day for literally two cents per word! In our first episode, Alex tells Elizabeth all about the origins of...
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