Archive - PHONE TIME

💘 Websites to love if you love love

Forget chocolate and cards. Making someone a website is the greatest act of romance.

Feb 17 • Kristin Merrilees

Pop Base is launching an 'ambassador program' for concert-goers

+ Instagram made limited-edition "Close Friends Only" merch, and it's matchmaking season on college campuses.

Feb 13 • Kristin Merrilees

Textile artist Lucia Gallipoli on digital ephemera, love, and 'Tumblr art'

Gallipoli gets inspiration from her camera roll, Notes app, and thrifting for textiles.

Feb 7 • Kristin Merrilees

The lines between creator and journalist are getting even blurrier

Plus, would you go to a Facebook Museum?

Feb 1 • Kristin Merrilees

January 2026

I like the Sandwich Alignment Game

Plus, the app Corner's Instagram “magazine.”

Jan 9 • Kristin Merrilees

A social app for moods?

Plus, a misunderstood oceanic creature finally gets its flowers.

Jan 7 • Kristin Merrilees

Adam Mosseri says the old Instagram feed is dead

Plus, the internet's continuing shift toward images over text.

Jan 6 • Kristin Merrilees

Worldbuilding zines, USB lockets, and other objects

Works in browser, mixed media, and more.

Jan 3 • Kristin Merrilees

Dispatch from the 'festival of the recently possible'

The best of creative software, hardware, projection, and sound.

Jan 2 • Kristin Merrilees

December 2025

I gave a talk about the feminist internet

And we made meme scrapbook pages.

Dec 30, 2025 • Kristin Merrilees

What can a year of AI chats reveal about you?

And my review of Radu Jude's "Dracula," which will make you never want to look at an AI-generated image again.

Dec 24, 2025 • Kristin Merrilees

My YouTube Recap is boring!

If you're going to make a Spotify Wrapped clone, at least make it interesting.

Dec 18, 2025 • Kristin Merrilees

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