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Oops?

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Source: washingtonpost.com


I made a thing: CoronaDeathToll

(updated: 20.12.20, see below) As if doomscrolling the grim news of a world in a pandemic wasn't depressing enough, today I had the idea to add (yet another) visualisation around the numbers of deaths that Covid-19 has caused. This was sparked by the boiling the frog effect that the rising daily numbers of deaths seem…


Wired: Facebook bug could have let advertisers get your phone number

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Facebook tells users that giving the company their mobile phone number will help keep their account secure. Until a few weeks ago, however, the social network’s self-service ad-targeting tools could be massaged into revealing a Facebook user’s cellphone number from their email address. The same flaw made it possible to collect phone numbers for Facebook…


The new oil

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Anselm just published a response* to NYT's "The Big Five tech companies increasingly dominate our lives. Could you ditch them?" quiz. His personal results seem to be quite similar to what I'd find out. Ditching Apple for example would be way harder for me as, say, ditching Facebook - which I already try to avoid…


Leseempfehlung: What’s Ahead for Your Data in 2016?

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Am Samstag feierte die erste Webseite 25jährigen Geburtstag. Der Erfolg des "WorldWideWeb" wäre undenkbar ohne die darin enthaltenen Ideen und Prinzipien des "Open Webs" - offene Standards, niemand "besitzt" "das Web". Leider zeigt sich zunehmend, dass dieses "offene Web" mehr und mehr verdrängt wird durch das kommerzialisierte, Plattform-beherrschte Web (siehe hierzu auch diesen Artikel von…