Living in the New New Normal
Please note: This post veers a bit outside my usual topics for this blog, so you can read the post in full on Medium. It’s the year 2019.…
Category: digital life
Visiting Casa Jasmina
We lived in the open source connected home of the future. And survived. When I learned about Casa Jasmina (CJ), a connected open source home of the future…
Edison’s phonographs and the Internet of Things
When the first Edison phonograph recordings came out – so the story goes – many were freaked out. You could here the voices of the dead, speaking, singing.…
Snapshot: The Digital Agenda for the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities
Over the last few months it’s become painfully obvious – once more – that we’re not really set for the 21st century, policy-wise. This probably holds true globally…
How to see through the cloud, translated
Over on the Mozilla Webmaker site, James Bridle wrote a brilliant piece that explains in very simple terms how to get a better understanding of the web at…
Merging book stores & ebooks
I love bookstores. I love them for their curation. I particularly love how smaller bookstores have a fantastic selection. However, I have a dark secret — I almost…
Interview: Apotheken Umschau / Volle Kontrolle über mich
File under “unexpected media appearance”: A few weeks ago I was interviewed about personal analytics and the Quantified Self by a good old institution in the German media…