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What's the difference between a blockchain-powered city and...?

“Blockchain-powered smart cities are more attainable than people imagine”, says this article. Cool. But so is …

How to customize the Facebook News Feed (infographic)

It is possible to customize what Facebook shows you in its News Feed. Here is how to do it, and above all WHY, explained in the simplest possible manner.

Er.. No, sorry: Facebook CANNOT provide transparency

Requests that Facebook “opens up its algorithms” continue to come. Because nobody seems to realize that, no matter how surely well-meaning those proposals are, they are structurally impossible to satisfy, on any centralized platform like Facebook.

The fix for Facebook is NOT a different PLATFORM

An article by Roger McNamee titled “How to Fix Facebook - Before it fixes us” does a great job of describing the problems created by Facebook or any other platforms working in the same way, but contradicts itself when it proposes certain kinds of regulatory fixes.

On Facebook, it's OK to be anti-you and your beliefs

An article about Facebook published last summer is a great read, but the reason why it is great may not be immediately evident:

On male-dominated technology, and marriage

Is there a connection between male dominance in ICT, and high-tech in general, and evolution of marriage? I don’t know for sure, but these two pieces make me wonder.