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Alek Tarkowski

QAnon makes me think about disinformation and decolonization

“Reddit Squashed QAnon by Accident” is a good piece about how Reddit decreased Qanon presence on its service — as opposed to Facebook…

3 min readSep 29, 2020

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Alek Tarkowski

The Last Hyperlink

“Link in bio” is a slow knife, wrote Anil Dash at the end of 2019. What if limiting the number of links on the Web was a good idea?

2 min readSep 25, 2020

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The Last Hyperlink

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Alek Tarkowski

Interoperability is the solution to the Zoom fiasco

When the pandemic started and the stay at home orders were given, videoconferencing tools became one of the first items in anyone’s crash…

4 min readApr 7, 2020

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Alek Tarkowski

Platforms are eating CC licenses

What is the value proposition of Creative Commons licensing? What problem are we solving? It’s high time to answer this question again.

13 min readMar 26, 2020

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Platforms are eating CC licenses

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Alek Tarkowski

Facebook: the society within societies

Facebook creates a new, global community for which we don’t even have a proper name yet. It isn’t a state in the classic sense, it isn’t a…

9 min readOct 25, 2019

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Alek Tarkowski

Building a sustainable Open Movement — how do we go beyond the global events that we love so much?

Imagine that you cannot meet your movement peers in person — could you still feel part of the movement?

11 min readJul 14, 2019

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Building a sustainable Open Movement — how do we go beyond the global events that we love so much?

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Alek Tarkowski

The tale of the two publishers

Katherine Maher, in her recent op-ed for Wired, argues that internet giants like Facebook and Google must support Wikipedia and other…

5 min readJul 2, 2018

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The tale of the two publishers

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Alek Tarkowski

Dreaming of the Big Open

At Mozfest 2017, together with Nicole Ebber we organized a workshop on the Big Open — a project to define shared vision for open movements.

4 min readNov 25, 2017

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Dreaming of the Big Open

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Alek Tarkowski

Freedom of Augmented Panorama

Yesterday, Apple unveiled iPhone X, its new flagship phone. It’s most exciting feature, according to most experts, is its Augmented Reality…

6 min readSep 14, 2017

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Freedom of Augmented Panorama

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Alek Tarkowski

Postcard from Toronto: 2017 Creative Commons Summit

At the end of April, the 2017 Creative Commons Summit took place in Toronto. The bi-annual summits are focal points for our global work…

8 min readMay 18, 2017

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Postcard from Toronto: 2017 Creative Commons Summit

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Alek Tarkowski

Alek Tarkowski

Head, Centrum Cyfrowe / Public Lead, Creative Commons Poland / Communia Association. Dealing with all things open, with a policy focus.

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