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Can you subvert YouTube's battle for your eyeballs?

Can you subvert YouTube's battle for your eyeballs?

YouTube's homepage is a slot machine: brightly lit, loud, ephemeral, provocative, uncertain, and there to make money for the house. Exposing its design principles is a surprisingly complicated task. Micah has a crack at it, investigating how a browser extension might take away the house's edge.

You Are The Client: We Make The Stickers

You Are The Client: We Make The Stickers

Olu's pegboard with various colourful notes on it including a drawing of a fox and some slogans spelt out in scrabble tiles

Hi, I'm Olu!

Promo image. Dungeons and Democracy - Can Deliberation Be Fun? There's a picketer with a sign saying: cast fireball please.

Dungeons & Democracy: Crowdwork As A Design Problem

The words March Roundup next to a multipack of scampi fries stuck to an unappealing-looking wall.

GFSC's March Roundup

A colourfu musical instruments surround a set of cards with numbers 1-5 saying "forest, snooker, wine, beige, the pyramids".

How GFSC got to here (Part 1)

A collage of emma's visual diaries

Introducing: Emma!

Roundups

The words March Roundup next to a multipack of scampi fries stuck to an unappealing-looking wall.

GFSC's March Roundup

Ursula Le Guin famously said its easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. So lets start imagining it: starting with friendship.

5 happy humans walking on a path in the sunshine and smiling at the camera

Introducing the future of Geeks for Social Change!

WIP

Promo image. Dungeons and Democracy - Can Deliberation Be Fun? There's a picketer with a sign saying: cast fireball please.

Dungeons & Democracy: Crowdwork As A Design Problem

Heckler war stories do very well. Imagine an organised insurrection. Sean has had one of his worst ideas ever, and can't wait to play it with you and 50 of our closest friends. (This is emphatically not a criticism of democracy as a concept.)

Intro

Olu's pegboard with various colourful notes on it including a drawing of a fox and some slogans spelt out in scrabble tiles

Hi, I'm Olu!

Meet Olu: developer, writer, sewer, apprendre français-er, and internet enjoyer. Read about their experiences trying to find a place in the social enterprise, charity, non-profit and social enterprise worlds, what bought them to GFSC, and their surprising optimism for technology despite it all.

A colourfu musical instruments surround a set of cards with numbers 1-5 saying "forest, snooker, wine, beige, the pyramids".

How GFSC got to here (Part 1)

A collage of emma's visual diaries

Introducing: Emma!

One of my art pieces that started off as a top down drawing of the coast but transitioned to a desert landscape when rotated.

I, Micah

Hello, Sean Morley speaking

Hello, Sean Morley speaking

A drawing of Petra's hand reaching out over five artistically arranged sheared photographs of landscapes, trains, and people.

Greetings from Petra

5 happy humans walking on a path in the sunshine and smiling at the camera

Introducing the future of Geeks for Social Change!