Thank You, Open source (via t3n.de).
Internetkultur-Dilemma: Warum Deutschland kein Digitalisierungs-Gewinner wird.
Zwar reden alle von der Digitalisierung, aber viel zu wenige verstehen, wovon sie da sprechen. Über hunderte von Gesprächen hat sich bei mir der Eindruck erhärtet, dass das Internet hierzulande von vielen lediglich theoretisch begriffen wird — als eine technokratisch zu lösende Herausforderung. Oftmals sind es denn auch Bürokraten, die uns digital wettbewerbsfähig machen wollen.
Perhaps ideal for the ORF.at grid, too?
Fitty scales up (or down) text so it fits perfectly to its parent container. Ideal for flexible and responsive websites. (Via t3n.de.)
Infographic: 101 Fascinating Facts About Domain Names (via t3n.de).
Technology Is Biased Too. How Do We Fix It?
(…) when you examine the types of mistakes the system made, black defendants were almost twice as likely to be mislabeled as likely to reoffend — and potentially treated more harshly by the criminal justice system as a result.
Hedy and Alexa.
The butterfly effect: How a derailed banking career in 19th century Vienna led to the mass online ordering of dollhouses in January.
Life in plastic, it's fantastic!
There's Another Huge Plastic Garbage Patch in The Pacific Ocean.
Reminds me of Vienna’s Danube channel.
Revealed: the insidious creep of pseudo-public space in London.
Pseudo-public space – squares and parks that seem public but are actually owned by corporations – has quietly spread across cities worldwide. As the Guardian maps its full extent in London for the first time, Jack Shenker reports on a new culture of secrecy and control, where private security guards can remove you for protesting, taking photos ... or just looking scruffy
Inside Cuba’s DIY Internet Revolution.
The real irony is that if the internet does topple the government and bring democracy to this democracy-starved island, it’ll happen just as democracy itself is being undone by Facebook and every other filter-bubble-creating, political-polarization-amplifying, algorithm-optimized feed. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves, and also oversimplifying, because the Cubans—the very resourceful Cubans—haven’t exactly been sitting around sipping mojitos as the digital revolución passed them by. They have workarounds. Oh, do they have workarounds.
