About
Unattributed (George De Bruin) is a writer, digital archivist, sound curator, and advocate for the open, independent web and Creative Commons culture.
He is the founder and curator of several independent digital initiatives, including The CerebralRift (cerebralrift.cc), a publication celebrating outsider art, indie music, and Creative Commons media; the CerebralMix Archive (cerebralmix.cc), an archival preservation of his long-running CC music podcast; the netlabel CerebralAudio; and Ennui Vagaries (ennui-vagaries.cc), an exploratory journal focused on analog hobbies, mechanical keyboards, timepieces, and vintage audio.
On his personal site unattributed.cc, he shares thoughtful essays on digital legacy, link rot mitigation, the evolving landscape of RSS feed readers, anti-AI content scraping, digital preservation, technology skepticism, and the enduring craft of personal blogging.
You can also find Unattributed on:
- Website: https://unattributed.cc
- Mastodon: hub.vocalcat.com/unattributed
Articles
- Pagecord's Updated AI Disclosure
- Why I Haven't Written About Dolly and Tim Curry
- Why People Quit Blogging
- Digital Legacy: Link Rot Mitigation Issues
- More Tech Sucks!
- Workism, AI and Vocations
- Tech Sucks! Victim in Denial!
- Website Archival and Preservation
- Embeds Did Serious Harm to one of My Websites
- Let's Talk About Hosted Blogs
- AI and Cognitive Dissonance
- Update: RSS Feed Readers
- RE: Mea Culpa, When Somebody Writes Your Wrongs
- RE: Why I Stopped “Creating Content”
- How I Write Blog Posts with Obsidian
- Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management
- RE: Bye bye Gravatar
- Accessibility Rant: Reader Mode
- The State of RSS Feed Readers
- Three Water Songs
- Before Angine and King Gizzard there was Harry Partch
- Clickbait Lists Are Not Good
- On Getting Older: I Never Wanted This
- On the Blogging and Writing Metas
- A House Fifty Years Ago, A House Tomorrow
- The Summer of Angine de Poitrine
- Am I Becoming a Neo-Luddite?