Close-up of a penny and a needle, photographed by Martin Cooper, under CC BY 2·0.

This weekend: Curlie is back; ignorance must be bliss

12.07.2025/11.46

Happily, Curlie is back in action: I was able to log in without issue yesterday, and everything is back to normal. We definitely need human-curated indices on the web, sorting the human from the machine-written. Curlie (and its forerunner, the Open Directory Project) had forbidden content mills early on: sites that churned out only content […]

Cambridge Analytica is merely Facebook’s ‘smaller, less ambitious sibling’

14.04.2018/23.03

Beyond all that had gone on with AIQ and Cambridge Analytica, a lot more has come out about Facebook’s practices, things that I always suspected they do, for why else would they collect data on you even after you opted out? Now, Sam Biddle at The Intercept has written a piece that demonstrates that […]