Ethics

  • When I started out on the Web in the late nineties it was full of enthusiasm and limitless possibilities. It was about equality, opportunity and technological utopia. Today corporate interests run paramount with gatekeepers like Google, Facebook, Apple building their…

  • I know that today is not Mother’s Day. I love my mother every day though. Do you? In case you love your mother reshare this! Now, who will say “no” and refrain from resharing? Many people will feel compelled to…

  • “Here Comes the Future: Teaching Social Media” is a contribution by Dustin Verburg. I added the teaser image and text formatting like bold, italics, paragraphs, citations and lists. One day I read an article about a lawmaker in Trenton, NJ…

  • During Nazi or Stalinist rule it was matter of life and death whether you were support the bloody regime or speaking out against it. Even trying to subvert it without speaking out publicly ended up fatal in most cases. Nowadays…

  • For a year or so I didn’t spend as much time with my business of blogging because I had to take care of a puppy. The funny thing is in German (remember, I live in Germany) you say “small business”…