{"id":6053,"date":"2025-12-31T21:03:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=6053"},"modified":"2025-12-31T21:03:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:03:03","slug":"favorite-open-culture-posts-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=6053","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Open Culture posts of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1403\" height=\"1080\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-Simpsons-short.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6054\" style=\"width:500px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-Simpsons-short.jpg 1403w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-Simpsons-short-768x591.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1403px) 100vw, 1403px\" \/><\/center><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>For nearly fourteen years now, I\u2019ve written a post every weekday at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/\">Open Culture<\/a>, usually to do with literature, film, music, art, architecture, television, radio, or language. Here are ten of my favorites from the more than 250 I wrote in 2025:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2025\/08\/21-rules-for-living-from-miyamoto-musashi.html\">21 Rules for Living from Miyamoto Musashi, Japan\u2019s Samurai Philosopher (1584\u20131645)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2025\/08\/a-man-read-3599-books-over-60-years-and-now-his-family-has-shared-the-entire-list-online.html\">A Man Read 3,599 Books Over 60 Years, and Now His Family Has Shared the Entire List Online<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2025\/10\/michael-jacksons-horrifically-entertaining-thriller-music-video.html\">Celebrate Halloween with Michael Jackson\u2019s Horrifically Entertaining \u201cThriller\u201d Music Video\u2014and a Behind-the-Scenes Documentary<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2025\/04\/how-chinese-characters-work.html\">How Chinese Characters Work: The Evolution of a Three-Millennia-Old Writing System<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2025\/02\/how-the-fairlight-cmi-synthesizer-revolutionized-music.html\">How the Fairlight CMI Synthesizer Revolutionized Music<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2025\/07\/revisit-one-of-the-most-polarizing-albums-in-rock-history-lou-reeds-metal-machine-music-which-came-out-50-years-ago.html\">Revisit One of the Most Polarizing Albums in Rock History: Lou Reed\u2019s <em>Metal Machine Music<\/em>, Which Came Out 50 Years Ago<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2025\/01\/revisit-pop-up-video-the-vh1-series-that-reinvented-music-videos-pop-culture.html\">Revisit <em>Pop-Up Video<\/em>: The VH1 Series That Reinvented Music Videos &amp; Pop Culture<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2025\/07\/tomorrow-never-knows.html\">Tomorrow Never Knows: How the Beatles Invented the Future With Studio Magic, Tape Loops &amp; LSD<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2025\/10\/when-david-bowie-starred-in-and-created-music-for-a-dystopian-cyberpunk-video-game.html\">When David Bowie Starred in\u2014and Created Music for\u2014a Dystopian Cyberpunk Video Game: Discover <em>Omikron: The Nomad Soul<\/em> (1999)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2025\/03\/where-the-simpsons-began.html\">Where The Simpsons Began: Discover the Original Shorts That Appeared on The Tracey Ullman Show (1987\u20131989)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>See also\u00a0my ten favorite Open Culture posts of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4718\">2012<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4721\">2013<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4725\">2014<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4728\">2015<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4577\">2016<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4321\">2017<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4571\">2018<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4925\">2019<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=5233\">2020<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=5594\">2021<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=5750\">2022<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=5824\">2023<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=5935\">2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For nearly fourteen years now, I\u2019ve written a post every weekday at\u00a0Open Culture, usually to do with literature, film, music, art, architecture, television, radio, or language. Here are ten of my favorites from the more than 250 I wrote in 2025: See also\u00a0my ten favorite Open Culture posts of\u00a02012,\u00a02013,\u00a02014,\u00a02015,\u00a02016,\u00a02017,\u00a02018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6057,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6053\/revisions\/6057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}