Think Big, Shop Small, part 2

Example’s Quick Update Assess the Options Media Box Options Use the Web Meet the New Overlords, Same As the Old Overlords Overlord with a Muzzle Dreams of Electric Sheep The Grandparent TBD Adjust Your Expectations But Don’t Say THAT One Ugh, the Community Media Box Expectations More to Come When I started this “series” of posts, I mentioned that for all the time that I spend implying that you should probably walk away from big companies (technology-wise and not) for independent and especially Free Culture counterparts, I haven’t laid out the whys and hows. From there, I introduced the idea of distancing ourselves from large companies, which all increasingly seem to want to make our lives miserable, with links to a tiny fraction of the evidence for that perspective. I explained that this necessary distance does you good, not necessarily the world unless it becomes a huge movement. That came with my own example, looking to move off the Roku platform to watch media on my television. By…