Irregularly, I post noteworthy articles I recently read. Enjoy!
Who do you trust? You are surrounded by bots.
Bit of a bummer that the article tries to go deep into bot panic territory, but the questions are legit and we’ll have to answer them – more and more – in the future. – by O’Reilly Strata
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Berlin challenges its ‘anti’ vibe
Bit of a pet peeve of mine, this topic. Always torn on how to deal with the two ends of the scale you hear in this town day in, day out: The legitimate and serious issues around gentrification on one hand, and a creeping, deeply despicable anti-foreigner stance that just disguises as anti-gentrification on the other.
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Words on tour
Lovely review of The Alpine Review. – by Nicola
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Flattr now lets you crowdfund content by liking/staring stuff on Twitter, Vimeo & Instagram
Crowdfunding platform Flattr will now allow donating money to content producers in much simpler ways than before: by using Facebook Likes and Twitter Faves. – by Tom Cheredar
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Digital Transformation in 2013: The strategy is delivery. Again.
Yes! The UK really has been on a roll with the Digital Government Services. This is just one more example of all the things they’re doing right. (Another example here.) – by Mike Bracken
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Making Money from 3D Printing – Square Helper
A great example of a product where 3D printing actually makes sense, at least initially. Niche products like the Square Helper are super useful to some, which is the perfect definition of a legitimate market segment. Stuff like this (and much more complex designs on the other end of the scale) is what we’re also looking at over at Makers Make. – by Ari Honka
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Wollen die auch arbeiten?
Ziemlich gelungenes Profil einer neuen Generation von Arbeitnehmern. Würde ich so oder ähnlich meinen Eltern weiterleiten, wenn ich gerade frisch von der Uni käme. – by Kerstin Bund, Uwe Jean Heuser
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Sci-Fi’s Underground Hit
No matter how this continues, this publication is going to be a classic example for the role of digital self-publishing and for studies of business models in publishing. – by Alexandra Alter
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