New #Disintermedia blog post, on the way that online tools that are superficially similar can be based on very different political-economic models, with very different social outcomes;

https://disintermedia.net.nz/crowdsourcing-or-outsourcing-who-benefits/

This is a repost of a piece I wrote a decade ago. At the time this was a fairly edgy analysis, and I'm quite proud of how it's held up.