The Hand-Made Internet

I'm tired of my work making money for the big tech companies.

I remember back in the 1990s the promise of the "internet age" and how it was going to open the entire world to all of us. A new golden age that would benefit writers and artist and filmmakers by ending  gatekeepers and democratizing distribution. Fast forward to the present and all that is mostly over. If you want your "content" to have a shot at being seen, then you must engage with Meta or Google or Spotify or whatever other massive tech company. The price you pay for using their portals is you have to play by their rules, so if the deal starts out well and fair for the platform and the creator, as it did with YouTube and many others, you can bet that fairly soon those rules will change and you will get a smaller and smaller piece of that pie until they figure out they don't need you at all because soon they'll just use A.I. to generate endless crap for people to be half distracted by. Or, they get you hooked using their "free" tools, but after a time, if you want to still use them you;ll have to subscribe (oh how I hate that business plan). And then there's always companies politics going in a direction you don't want to associate with. 

So, I've decided to focus more on a "hand-made internet" and just post my blog writings on my website Weaverwerx.com going forward. I know that I'll be removing myself from a larger eco-system and will not get as many eyeballs on my work, but I'll take quality or quantity.

I'll leave this blog active to serve as an archive, but all future postings will only be at Weaverwerx.com.

See you there!

OK HW