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Free as in Speech or Free as in Beer?
I wrote about “free” in the previous post. Now free has more meanings,... »
Open Tech vs Open Society
In the digital debate, sometimes words have different meanings from wh... »
French Sci-Fi Novelist Robida Rediscovered
Art and literature often predicts and inspires innovation: da Vinci’s ... »
Sorrell: Media Companies Masquerading as Tech Companies
Plenty has already been said about #prismgate, but this conversation w... »
Is social media eating its (ad)tail?
Advertising is the business that fuels free, no doubt. It is the be al... »
If You’re not Paying for a Service, You’re not the Consumer, You’re the Product Being Sold
If you’re not paying for a service, you’re not the consumer, you're th... »
Information wants to be free
“Information wants to be free” was the famous maxim of the early days ... »
Just like the post office
The claim is often made that internet companies are just like the post... »
Unlimited innovation through apps?
The success of platforms like the Appstore and Google Play is beyond q... »
Commission anti-trust investigation welcome
The EU commission announced yesterday that they will investigate wheth... »
Digital surveillance brings typewriters back in fashion
Keeping secrets online is notoriously difficult. Data has a tendency t... »
My mind was blown at Tokyo’s NTT-ICC
Tokyo Digital Arts Museum Showed Ways Forward for Games, Maps and More... »
Vargas Llosa misses point on Snowden
Peruvian-Spanish author Mario Vargas Llosa has expressed his views on ... »
Cameron’s war on porn: right action, wrong reason
UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s speech on Monday sounded almost like... »
Pacemaker-hacker Dies Young
Barnaby Jack was scheduled to talk about hacking pacemakers at the Bla... »
We are data – who needs PRISM?
Online privacy hits big politics as US president Obama cancels his bil... »
Anonymity Not Most Important Driver for Online Hate
Anita Sarkeesian is a US media critic and feminist, currently visiting... »
Internet.org – ok, great but what about democracy?
A handful of prominent tech companies come together to form Internet.o... »
From Atoms to Bits – and back!
Nicholas Negroponte famously articulated the vision in the Nineties th... »
When you have a hammer, everything looks like nails
Netopia contributor Paul Frigyes reviews an influential book today: "B... »
From Tech Crime to Big Politics
What do Julian Assange, Peter Sunde and Kim Dotcom have in common? Sur... »
Syria – Weapons of Mass Surveillance
As the world holds its breath waiting for the global community’s react... »
Internet of Things 20 Years Before
True story: Twenty years ago, my university dorm neighbour invented st... »
MEP Schaake: “Stop Digital Arms Trade”
I posted the other day about Sweden’s digital surveillance exports to ... »
Some Data Packets More Equal than Others
The veil was lifted at last today for the world to see actual policy s... »
Information Dominance Center
Don’t tell me the NSA doesn’t have a sense of humour. NSA chief Genera... »
Truly Digital – Open Data is Nothing Without a Narrative
One of the best things about the internet is that it brings so many bi... »
The Mirage of Net Neutrality – Netopia in European Voice
Today, Netopia writes an opinion comment in European Voice. It discuss... »
Eternal Life through Data
Google’s newest venture Calico aims for nothing less than eternal life... »
Google: Information Does Not Want to Be Free Anymore
Today’s Digital program at the Gothenburg Book Fair featured a present... »
Filter Bubbles and Algorithms See Right through You – or Do They?
Your online newspaper is different from mine. That’s right, we can go ... »
Silicon Valley’s Favourite Intellectual Property
Intellectual property rights online are obviously a topic of hot debat... »
Morozov’s Three Principles for Seeing Through Internet Mumbo-Jumbo
This week’s best read was US-based Belarusian writer Evgeny Morozov’s ... »
Techno-centrism as neo-liberalism
I meant to change topics, but Morozov published another thought-worthy... »
Dude, it’s code – we can do anything!
“Dude, it’s code – we can do anything!” That line has stayed in my hea... »
Fifteen clicks of online fame
Who wouldn’t want to be a model? To have your face all over town, prom... »
Godin on Google+ shared recommendations
American writer Seth Godin is a good candidate for what Evgeny Morozov... »
Is digital jurisdiction Reding’s blind spot?
This week I attended Commissioner Viviane Reding’s press conference an... »
Encrypted e-mail not secret
Anonymity is often regarded as the best way to secure one’s privacy on... »
Off with their’eads, Facebook!
Growing up the Eighties, snuff movies were urban legend in the school ... »
Merkel’s Needle in Obama’s Haystack
PEN International’s Larry Siems makes a strong case describing the pro... »
Guns as a freedom of speech issue
This week EU Commissioner Cecilia Malmström expressed concern that dis... »
Zeno’s Turtle Beats the Singularity
Zeno was an ancient Greek philosopher who argued that our senses decei... »
Facebook’s biometric database
As reported, I found Mikko Hypponen’s contribution the most valuable p... »
Facebook’s arbitrary freedom of speech definition
Rob den Bleyker is a cartoonist, he was locked-out from Facebook for t... »
Even in Silicon Valley, No Man is an Island
Silicon Valley’s desire to escape the national domain is short-sighted... »
Twitter Prankster Pardoned
Of all the funny jokes on the internet, this may be the smartest. It h... »
The False Truths of Google Auto-Complete
The UN campaign on women’s rights is provocative and deserves all the ... »
Who Watches the Watchmen?
If you only read one more story on NSA, Snowden and surveillance, let ... »
[Newsletter] 3d-printing: Manufacturing Disruption
This blog post is the content of the Netopia Newsletter which was circ... »
3D Printing and Intellectual Property
Today was a big day for Netopia, our first ever live event in Brussels... »
3d-Printing and Government Disruption
Today Netopia launches its first report in English, on 3d-printing. It... »
Rip, Mix, Burn 3d-style – Hacking Objects
As discussed in Netopia’s new report 3D-Printing: Technology and Beyon... »
Internet vs FedEx Bandwidth
XKCD’s “What if?” is the place for curious questions about science and... »
Virtual Currency at All Time High (well, at least since the 80’s)
On Monday, the Bitcoin rate reached its all time high at US$750. At th... »
Is 3d-printing the new ADSL? History repeating
Euractiv – the EU-insider publication – has published my opinion piece... »
Father of Internet wants to give up privacy
Vint Cerf is nick-named “father of the internet”, as he managed the US... »
Google’s abuse of dominant position and the illusion of consumer power
Google is once again on a collision course with content producers, thi... »
MacKinnon: ‘It’s going to be messy’
Cybersecurity is a topic that most often ends up putting the responsib... »
Massively Open Online Frat Algorithm
Algorithmisation is when human jobs are replaced by machines. It used ... »
Washing Machine Bigger Impact than Internet, says Professor Chang
Technology shapes society, at least this is what tech pundits will lea... »
The Myth of Neutral Infrastructure
This week is the ECTA Regulatory Conference in Brussels. That is the E... »
Filter Bubbles and Trackers Reveal Your Guilty Pleasures
As search algorithms and website content adjusts to internet users his... »
3d-printing: Netopia Big in China
Impossible to resist sharing with Netopia’s readers: Chinese televisio... »
Truth is Stranger than Fiction: Authors Join Call for Rights Online
Five hundred (and counting) of the world’s finest authors have signed ... »
Idea vs Execution (or Sting in Swim Trunks)
David Lynch’s Dune is an epic Eighties sci-fi flick, featuring Kyle Ma... »
Virtual Monetary Policy (is there such a thing?)
Bitcoin’s exchange rate to the US-dollar has dropped significantly in ... »