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EU citizen with a UK passport. Member of Die Grünen in Kreuzberg. Campaigner, consultant, blogger. Writes about EU, DE, UK & tech. Train traveller. City cyclist.| Jon Worth Euroblog
EU citizen with a UK passport. Member of Die Grünen in Kreuzberg. Campaigner, consultant, blogger. Writes about EU, DE, UK & tech. Train traveller. City cyclist.| Jon Worth Euroblog
A couple of weeks ago, an old friend in Brussels I know from EU politics messaged me on Signal asking me how I was. “I can’t reply fully now” I told him, “I am in rural Romania on #CrossBorderRail.” “Oh are you doing another tour?” he replied. Well, yes, just […]| Jon Worth Euroblog
I’m writing on that fateful day, 20th January 2025. I stopped using Twitter more than two years ago, judging then it would only get worse under Musk – and I was sadly proven right. Today I am ending all association with Meta tools, due to Zuckerberg cosying up with Trump. […] The post Tech ethics, January 2025 appeared first on Jon Worth Euroblog.| Jon Worth Euroblog
One of the interesting aspects of all the “officialising” the Ursula von der Leyen Bluesky account stuff is how it has created a discussion about verification of identity on social networks and – although seldom expressed as such – posed the question of what the social network itself (or the […] The post A social network not having administrative responsibility for account verification has upsides appeared first on Jon Worth Euroblog.| Jon Worth Euroblog
Back in October 2023, when Bluesky was a fledgling invite-only network, I set up the account @vonderleyen.bsky.social for a few reasons (and I wrote about the experiment then). First, it seemed like a reasonable bet that Bluesky would grow into viable Twitter alternative for EU politics. Second, it was better […]| Jon Worth Euroblog
Just over a year ago I wrote this post, drawing on lyrics from The Who and the Rolling Stones to explain my lingering scepticism about Bluesky. After being fooled by Elon Musk, should we trust Bluesky? I wasn’t fully convinced then, was more convinced in the past 12 months, and […]| Jon Worth Euroblog
In some management training course years ago I was given the book Why Should Anyone Be Led by You? by Robert Goffee and Gareth Jones. You can find a summary of it from Harvard Business Review here. Leaders, Goffee and Jones say, need vision, energy, authority, and strategic direction. And one […] The post European Commission, why should anyone be led by you? You’re not really leaders if you’re still on Twitter/X appeared first on Jon Worth Euroblog.| Jon Worth Euroblog
Back in the autumn of last year, in a train in Freilassing, a German police officer came through the carriage and asked for everyone’s passport. “Why are you checking all the passengers on this train?” I asked him, in German. “Because we check everyone at this border” “Sorry you don’t. […] The post Germany’s complete disregard of Schengen – ethically wrong, and practically unworkable appeared first on Jon Worth Euroblog.| Jon Worth Euroblog
A Gaggia Classic coffee machine – the second I have owned – has sat in my kitchen since 2013, reliably making espresso coffee every day since. It is however one of the original pre-2009 Classics (see the different generations in this video). However this summer it developed a peculiar fault. […]| Jon Worth Euroblog
OK, so you’re really, really sick of Musk’s antics now and finally want to make the leap to something else. Here’s your super quick guide how to do so. Do you need to close your Twitter account? Your choice, but not necessarily – my account is still, technically, there but […]| Jon Worth Euroblog
When Donald Tusk, then President of the European Council, wanted to send a public message to set the tone of the Brexit negotiations in 2018 – he took to Twitter, and quoted Freddie Mercury. It was clever, it was culturally astute, the message could be conveyed in 280 characters, and […] The post Where do we do digital EU politics now? appeared first on Jon Worth Euroblog.| Jon Worth Euroblog
I have long struggled to design a smooth and efficient workflow for the photos and videos I take on an everyday basis. I had combinations of photos stored in the cloud and stored locally, was spending too much on cloud storage, and could never find the photos I needed when […] The post Building an efficient and low cost photo workflow with Photos for Mac appeared first on Jon Worth Euroblog.| Jon Worth Euroblog
No. Is that it? Pretty much. If you have done even basic thinking about the issue, that ought to be the answer. Can you explain this in graphical form? Sort of – there’s a flow diagram here in the post. You can find it on Mastodon, Bluesky and LinkedIn as […] The post Should I join Threads? appeared first on Jon Worth Euroblog.| Jon Worth Euroblog
Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo has today announced she is leaving Twitter/X (her announcement in Le Monde here, news story from Politico here). I think she rather overdoes the rhetoric, but that’s not the central point – she is an important politician deciding to abandon the platform, and that is […]| Jon Worth Euroblog
15 years ago The Common Craft Show did this little explainer about Twitter: What strikes me above all is how personal all of this is. The essence of this has been on my mind for the past few weeks, as we try and try again to find something to replace […]| Jon Worth Euroblog
Back in the summer of 2011 I had a bit a tricky conundrum. I needed to get from Bow in East London to Camden in North London avoiding the riots that were happening at that time. And ideally I needed to make the trip by bike. And a community had […]| Jon Worth Euroblog
