Sep 2017

Your values & role of internet in your life? Mozilla Germany is looking for interviewees in Hamburg, Leipzig and Munich: https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/3837958/2017-Oct-Germany-Recruitment (in German, compensated)

Update: Homebrew Website Club Berlin cancelled for tonight due to severe weather conditions. Stay indoors, stay safe …and see you Oct 19 Based on a unanimous decision from last time, the next Homebrew Website Club Berlin meeting on Thursday 5 October is […]

We had a great start into the new season last week, introducing a handful of newcomers to the IndieWeb. Our second September meeting, on Thursday 21st will take it from there - with no fixed agenda, we are going to discuss all things “open web” […]

"It’s so important that we understand the human impact of what we’re building and where we’re coming from. It is more than shiny buzzwords."

This is the beauty and the message of this 2016 film: Herzog collects a range of perspectives on the internet, carefully arranged in ten topical chapters, and leaves it to the viewer to make up their opinion. And it is of incredible value in a society where […]

The issue with tracking is not only one of obvious trackers but that, at least in theory, every piece of content loaded from other sites than the originating domain enables some degree of tracking.

As we click away on our screens and devices, it’s easily forgotten all this consumes natural resources - directly or indirectly:

Bloated websites lead to slow load times, frustrated users and wasted energy.

This microsite […]

Uh-oh. While generally enthusiastic of using technology for solving mankind’s problems, and with the global phenomenon of urbanisation amassing plenty of those, this analysis by Privacy International drawing a grim picture of the forces at play around […]

The Prototype Fund (PF), a government-funded programme run by the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN), invited to the Demo Day of projects from the first round of their programme, and a mixed crowd of participants and others assembled in a […]

The summer break is over: September 7, the Homebrew Website Club Berlin will continue from where it left in July - gathering like-minded people to discuss, think and experiment on how the web can be reclaimed as an open and social space. Indieweb techniques […]