Interesting question, answered: When, if ever, will Facebook contain more profiles of dead people than of living ones?

Wikipedia might be the best thing the internet has enabled. But it’s struggling. An interesting read – and a wake-up-call to anyone who has expertise in a specific field, which is to say: everyone.

The internet of things promises to make everyday objects smarter and more useful. This essay offers a different perspective, looking at the poetic, narrative quality of objects with a memory.

In the shakeup of the NSA surveillance revelations, two things remained consistent: 1. After each revelation, you could ask yourself: What could possibly be even more outrageous? And two weeks later, that’s being confirmed, too. 2. Too few people cared too little. That’s why I’m both surprised and intrigued by this essay by Doc Searls, one of the authors of the famous 1999 Cluetrain Manifesto, in which he claims: «I do believe we have passed Peak Surveillance». Read it.

«A brief manifesto about the promise and perils of data» is what Jonathan Harris calls his work, comissioned by The New York Times. It does a good job highlighting the many ways data can and will improve our lives (and already does), while at the same time showing to opposite side of the coin. In the wake of the NSA-revelations, the dark side of data has taken center stage and some have argued that limiting our use of data should be the answer. This manifesto is a great reminder not to forget about either side.

«Say yes if you mean no». A very interesting analysis of «dark patterns» in web design, the mean tricks companies use to manipulate your decisions.

Someone had to write this. The selfie is more than just the self-portrait of the digital age. It might well be the defining cultural phenomenon of the digital natives. Too bad James Joyce is longer around. I would have loved to read his sequel «A Selfie of the Artist as a Young Woman». I digress: Brace yourself for the evolution of the duckface, a great read from The Observer.

3D-printing, oh how boring from an MIT perspective. Those people use silkworms to do the 3D-printing.