WikiLeaks and the re-architecturing of society
While others have been writing about Julian Assange’s ability to control media, I am more concerned about WikiLeaks impact on the future of the Web. Pundits like Jeff Jarvis have articulated some...
View ArticleTowards the shift of Internet Architecture
“That’s what we’re delivering. Prepaid cards for Internet access. Complet avec number shortages and business travelers prowling the bagel joints of Rue St Urbain looking for a shopkeeper whose cash...
View ArticleWiFi Sourcing
When we had finally found a decent place to live in, we discovered one vital thing was missing to complete the picture: the holiness of Internet connectivity. While our lodging in Delfshaven,...
View ArticleThe Interpersonal Communication Breakdown
As my girlfriend was writing an intriguing piece about Facebook and its detrimental effects on society, a spark of interest was immediately there. That’s why I want to outline some of my thoughts in...
View ArticleThe Serendipitous Web
Ethan Zuckerman describes in his latest blog post exactly why I love to live in the big city: It may not sound intuitively obvious to people living in the developed world, but a city like Lagos – with...
View ArticleYou can’t handcuff the truth
Today I was watching Terzake and comtemporarian ecstatic Balkan philosopher Slavoj Zizek was up for discussion. Apparently he had been on stage in the Ghent Bozar theater yesterday. It was packed....
View ArticleSome ramblings on Facebook’s Timeline
I had already written about the concept of a digital timeline (Dutch) before. But I actually didn’t anticipate that a social networking site was going to use it at its core (although I heard it had...
View ArticleThe threath of Information Thieves
You know what’s cheap in the 21st century? Compute time. You know what’s expensive? Human judgment. And they’re not interchangeable. Humans are good at understanding things, computers are good at...
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