Chris Hartgerink

This is a cross-post from Medium. We live in a centralized Web regulated by fragmented legislation across countries. As a consequence, if I build a Web platform in the Netherlands, I need to take into account whether the content served on the platform is legal in Germany (replace with any

This post is a cross-post from Medium. I used to be an avid Google user. Everything I did was Google and I got really attached to my e-mail address after so many years of use: c.hartgerink@gmail.com. I fear some remnants of my data linger in the Googliverse,

This is a cross-post from Medium. I know, I know: I wrote about blockchain for science just last summer — this blog will explain why I now consider implementing blockchain to “improve” science a mistake. I am sharing why I changed my mind because the narrative is increasingly concerning me: The

"One finds limits by pushing them" - Herbert Simon Iedere ochtend dat ik op Tilburg University aankom, zie ik bovenstaand citaat. Een mooi citaat, waarschijnlijk bedoeld om de medewerker te inspireren. In mijn ervaring blijkt het veelal schijn die het beeld van de universiteit als voorstrijder van de

This is a cross-post from Medium. tl;dr copyright restricts knowledge sharing and by extension production; the author can decide to empower knowledge sharing and production with specific Creative Commons licenses (i.e., only CC 0 or CC BY) If you came here purely for a clarification of Creative Commons