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Please STOP demanding (self) regulation of Facebook, INSTEAD of turning it into a...

Today, a former Washington Post publisher and Facebook board member rightly opposed requests “for the regulation of big technology companies”… but omitting a crucial point.

Children should build their online presence. Sure, but where?

There is a post about children and their online presence that is great, except for a serious omission.

The next three titles about cops with fingerprint scanners

Wired reports that “UK police are now using fingerprint scanners on the streets to identify people in less than a minute”. I have a feeling that the next three titles on the same topic may be something like these:

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 …

The cost of five MORE years without perclouds

The percloud (“permanent/personal cloud”) is the simple, integrated alternative to Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Flickr, Dropbox… that I first proposed in 2013. Yesterday, the P2P Foundation stimulated new discusssions about the percloud,

The percloud is still only a proposal. For everybody

This morning, Michel Bauwens asked if any part of my proposals for personal clouds are actually working, or if they still are just proposals. The answer is: Yes, they still are “just proposals. Here is why, and why you should still care.