The debate over technology and disruption is a red herring, writes Glenn Fleishman. The trouble with Uber is that it's a middleman that can control both ends of the market.

Greg Wohlwend co-created the popular game Threes. He talks with host Glenn Fleishman about the joy of success, the burden of being independent, and the problems with parasites.

Maggie Vail and Jesse von Doom are the co-executive directors of CASH Music (Coalition of Artists and Stakeholders) a non-profit organization that brings an open-source approach to music distribution and… Read the rest of the article: Talking CASH Music with Maggie Vail and Jesse von Doom (New Disruptors Episode 73)

Henry Smith is a games app developer, and the evil genius behind the addictive multi-player app Spaceteam. Spaceteam won oodles of awards, and it has the added benefit (or problem)… Read the rest of the article: A chat with Henry Smith, Spaceteam Game Designer (New Disruptors 72)

Elly Blue is a bike activist, writer, and publisher, and has run more Kickstarter campaigns than nearly any other person or group. She is fiercely in favor of using bikes… Read the rest of the article: New Disruptors 71: Bike Activist and Publisher Elly Blue

Chris Yates is a polymath. A sculptor, artist, woodworker, cartoonist, entrepreneur, dog-kennel assembler, musician, and more. He's best known now for his handmade jigsaw puzzles. He's on the show to… Read the rest of the article: New Disruptors 70: Puzzle Maker Chris Yates

Dylan Meconis is a prolific cartoonist who lives in Portland, Oregon. She constantly labors away at a mix between her solo work and projects in collaboration with others, including writing… Read the rest of the article: New Disruptors 69: cartoonist Dylan Meconis

Glenn Fleishman on a crowdfunded journey into the history of comics in America

Dave Kellett and Fred Schroeder created the movie Stripped about the past, present, and future of comic strips and their creators. Dave is the creator and cartoonist of two webcomics… Read the rest of the article: Interview with the creators of Stripped, feature-length doc about comic strips [New Disruptors Podcast #68]

Danielle Hulton of Ada's Technical Books not only opened a bookstore in Seattle in 2010, but recently dramatically expanded the size of the shop by moving to a new space.… Read the rest of the article: New Disruptors 67: Danielle Hulton on how she built a dramatically successful indie bookstore

Joshua Lifton is one of the founders of Crowd Supply, a company that crowdfunds around products. They take a very different approach to preparation, funding, and follow-up than Kickstarter. Kickstarter… Read the rest of the article: New Disruptors 66: Crowded House with Joshua Lifton

Jeopardy champion Glenn Fleishman on Jeopardy champion Arthur Chu

Jane Friedman and Manjula Martin founded Scratch Magazine, a born-digital publication that tells writers what they're worth and how the publishing industry sausage-making factory actually works. Jane has an extensive… Read the rest of the article: New Disruptors 65: Made from Scratch with Jane Friedman and Manjula Martin

Angela and Aubrey Webber are the musical group The Doubleclicks, bringing geeky music to nerdy folk. The sisters never intended to form a band, but when Aubrey joined her sister… Read the rest of the article: New Disruptors 64: Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves with The Doubleclicks

Greg Knauss is an independent software developer who created Romantimatic, a reminder program for absent-minded sweethearts. You may know him from the early 2000s: from Suck.com and Metababy and Rainy… Read the rest of the article: New Disruptors 63: Failing Upward with Greg Knauss

Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools re-imagines the Whole Earth Catalog, of which he was an editor and publisher, for the Internet era: crowdsourced, crowdmade, crowdmanaged. He's been on the Internet for… Read the rest of the article: New Disruptors 62: Retooling Cool with Kevin Kelly

Matt Conn wanted to organize a safe event for gaymers — that's people who game and are part of the LGBTQ continuum. The GaymerX event is meant to be inclusive of… Read the rest of the article: New Disruptors 61: Attention to Convention with Matt Conn

Maxwell Salzberg of BackerKit knows what it's like to have a lot of people giving him money who want something in return: he and three colleagues created the Diaspora project,… Read the rest of the article: New Disruptors 60: Backerkit to the Future with Maxwell Salzberg

Dan Shapiro created the game Robot Turtles out of scissors, clip art, and a printer to offer asymmetric play: kids and adults can play together and both can enjoy the… Read the rest of the article: New Disruptors 59: Shell Game with Dan Shapiro

Guest host Jason Snell talks to regular host Glenn Fleishman about Glenn's recent Kickstarter campaign to fund a book of non-fiction articles from The Magazine. Jason, host of The Incomparable… Read the rest of the article: New Disruptors 58: Gaze Deeply Into My Crowdfunding Navel with Glenn Fleishman