The Last Goblin of digital

Look, I'm just transcribing. The goblins dictated this article about digital in shifts. Any errors are theirs. Any insights are also theirs. I am simply the secretary.

Engagement metrics on goblin posts about digital follow a power law, as predicted, but the goblins note that the long tail is unusually long, suggesting that digital is doing something to the algorithm that the algorithm hasn't told anyone about.

Goblins and network

Goblin engineers building near a network-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The Goblin Verdict on digital

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted digital for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.