Category Error: Tracking Ads Are Not a Funding Mechanism
This article is part of 20in20, a series of 20 blog posts in 20 days to kick off the blogging year 2020. This is 20in20:01. A note to…
Tag: digital rights
Interview: IG BCE Kompakt “Technologie darf Menschen nicht diskriminieren”
The IG BCE’s magazine Kompakt interviewed me about IoT, AI and why simple solutions so often are inappropriate for complex issues: The interview is in German, available as…
What type of smart city do we want to live in?
Warning: Trick question! The right questions should of course be: What type of city do we want to live in? What parts of our cities do we want…
Developing better urban metrics for Smart Cities
When we embed connected technologies — sensors, networks, etc. — into the public space*, we create connected public space. In industry parlance, this is called a Smart City. (I prefer…
Which type of Smart City do we want to live in?
Connectivity changes the nature of things. It quite literally changes what a thing is. By adding connectivity to, say, the proverbial internet fridge it stops being just an…
An easy guide to applying the #IOTmanifesto
The #IOTmanifesto is a great set of guidelines for designing connected products and services. (Read more about it on iotmanifesto.com.) Trying to make it more actionable (rather than…
Recollecting my Instagrams & other social data
So, Instragram announced updates to their Terms of Services. Nothing unusual about it, really, only that the updates seem to be aimed at monetizing by allowing advertisers to…