So Long. But Not Farewell.
MadHATTERs Weekly is taking some time out. The MadHATTERs Editorial, 26 August 2020
Nearly four years ago in Nov 2016, MadHATTERs was born. Launched as HATs went public for the first time – the first 500 HAT accounts were deployed into the world that day. What a long way we’ve come since then.
MadHATTERs began with the aim of providing a weekly dose of curated tech news but with a HAT perspective: the world as seen through our bias towards personal data and digital empowerment, greater control, privacy, security, confidentiality and freedom. And through our pro-innovation and pro-economy stance.
We believe we’ve done just that over the past few years, and in the process we’ve built a community of people who care about the same issues that matter to us, informing each other as we learnt together. Through HAT News we’ve also strived to keep you in touch with what’s going on in this community of developers and makers, researchers and innovators, start-ups and funders.
But today’s world of tech is a different place from when we first brought MadHATTERs — and HATs — into the world. Notably, personal data is now a huge thing and so is the data economy. Specifically, what we call the Data Economy 2.0: where the value of data benefits individuals, organisations and society (Dataswift CEO Irene Ng explains further here).
The sheer volume of news about data today has necessitated a daily newsletter to cover the pace of information exchange online. Launched last month, Dataswift’s Data News is now your go-to for the latest in the data economy, so make sure you’re subscribed to receive it in your inbox on weekday mornings.
As for MadHATTERs, we’re saying so long for now with Issue 188. But it’s not farewell as we’re taking some time out to refocus our role in the HAT community and fine-tune our voice on furthering the mission and vision of Data Economy 2.0. Onwards and upwards, as they say.
Do keep watching this space as the next chapter of MadHATTERs will begin in a month’s time.
Yours in HAT,
Leila Trilby, Editor-in-Chief
MadHATTERs is a weekly newsletter covering technology, personal data, and the Internet. Its perspective championing decentralised personal data is led by Dataswift with the Hub of All Things (HAT) technology. If you like what you read, subscribe to receive MadHATTERs in your inbox. Find out more about the HAT at www.hubofallthings.com
