Disintermedia

A craft work depicting a mouse with a scarf made of brown string, and a red fruit in its left hand, riding a sled with a Christmas tree in the back.

Happy December Solstice

The best plaid plans of mice and me. Seasons greetings to anyone who happens to read this. Hope you all have a fantastic break over the solstice period, whether you're entering the depths of winter or, like us, sweating through the early summer. As for me, in a

Photo of a group of men protesting against outsourcing. A man in the centre of the frame holds a sign saying "put the people first".

Crowdsourcing or Outsourcing: Who Benefits?

As promised, here's another one from the archives, originally posted in November 2015 on the original version of this blog (on CoActivate), and then republished on The Daily Blog. This one explores the differences between the 'crowdsourcing' of genuine digital commons (Wikipedia, couchsurfing platforms, etc), and

Monochrome artwork of person tied to wheel, saying "This is torture!", as black-robed figures turn it. Two robed men look on, one saying "I am composing a proclamation that says it is not."

A Four Paragraph Update

Because I'm a long-former, and what some people consider blog length is my idea of a quick memo. It's been almost a third of a year since I got Ghost installed here, and posted my 95 theses on leaving SS (SubStack). During most of that time

Two men sitting beside the water on stone steps, next to an arched bridge, with a cobbled area behind them, and some kind of sculpture of altar against the bridge.

A Bridge Too Far

Every startup story has a beginning, and an end TL;DR the Bridge Seat Cooperative experiment is over, at least in its current form. I (Strypey) am done with SubStack, due to its escalating lock-in, promotion of actual Neo-nazis, and overall enshittification. If you want to keep receiving posts about