May 2017

Our 8th HWC Berlin meeting will be held on May 31. Still looking for a more permanent place, we this time are headed to Potsdamer Platz at the heart of the city. One of our main topics will be the review of the Indie Web week, a series of Indieweb-related […]

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This is great: while I see (university) teachers and course instructors elsewhere requiring students to join Facebook groups or the like, Howard Rheingold makes the participants in his “social media course” acquire a domain and server space for a […]

A great article, can’t decide which parts to quote - pls read the whole thing. And start working on alternative futures tmrw (designers!)

I quit Facebook in 2013, and as a direct result of this, I have fallen out of touch with many friends […]

As a rare exception from our regular schedule, we had to postpone the 7th HWC meeting, but we’re back on May 17! If you are interested in working on (or even just having) your own homepage, along with both conceptual and technical discussions around an […]

"Privacy settings" in social web services are only a small part of the complex social phenomenon that is privacy; looking at the 2006 "Privacy paradox" and the 2014 "New privacy paradox" could help leading the discussion on privacy in tech from a far more sociological rather than mechanical perspective.

An hommage to the web, its freedom and why it still is the superior medium for self-expression online, by Tim Bray:

The great dan­ger is that the Web’s fu­ture is mall-like: No space re­al­ly pub­lic, no store­fronts […]

Time for a reflective wrap-up of last week’s “Datensummit”, the first national-level meetup on Open Data in Germany, co-hosted by the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany and the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure. I was […]