"Too bad your great ideas will never work."

2017-09-13 Thread Geert Lovink
The Californian Ideology Gets Grumpy. Bay Area Doomsters Have Spoken. "The three of us investigated several of these most promising efforts to “re-decentralize” the web, to better understand their potential to shake up the dominance of Facebook, Google, and Twitter. The projects we examined are

Re: In Praise of Cash (or just another luddite nationalist deth spell for

2017-09-13 Thread Morlock Elloi
It happened, 0.5kW, by the French of all peoples: https://www.qarnot.com/qrad/ Have you ever noticed that your personal computer was producing heat while processing tasks? At Qarnot, we decided to take advantage of this waste heat to deliver it directly to buildings. Qarnot designed the Q.rad,

What Internet do we want? Please participate in the netCommons survey

2017-09-13 Thread Christian Fuchs
netCommons is an interdisciplinary Horizon2020 EU project studying the social, legal and technological reality and future of the Internet - https://netcommons.eu/ The University of Westminster’s project team conducts a survey among experienced Internet users that asks: What Internet do we

Fwd: Public Money? Public Code! - Sign our Open Letter!

2017-09-13 Thread Carsten Agger
Digital services offered and used by our public administrations are part of the critical infrastructure of 21st century democratic nations. Due to restrictive software licences, however, many public bodies do not have full control over its digital infrastructure. And although sharing publicly