Videos

We speak at a large number of events to advocate for small technology. Here are recordings of our some of our appearances.

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• Small Is Beautiful #28

  

  What’s new in Kitten this month? Markdown support, new HTML validator, and HTML renderer improvements.

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• Small Is Beautiful #27

  

  End-to-end encrypted Kitten Chat

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• Small Is Beautiful #25

  

  Identity, privacy, communication and personhood on the Small Web

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• Small Is Beautiful #24

  

  #TwitterMigration & Small Web authentication.

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• Small Is Beautiful #23

  

  What is the Small Web and why do we need it?

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• Small Is Beautiful #22

  

  Kitten, DWeb Camp, and Braid

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• Small Is Beautiful #21

  

  Lipstick on a Pig

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• Small Is Beautiful #20

  

  Kitten

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• Small Is Beautiful #19

  

  Owncast COVID special (with special guest Gabe Kangas)

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• Small Is Beautiful #18

  

  Adventures in immutability

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• Small Is Beautiful #17

  

  Lessons learned working against the grain of the mainstream

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• Small Is Beautiful #16

  

  NodeKit and Domain updates and reviews of our recent talks.

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• Small Is Beautiful #15

  

  web3 is bullshit (long live web0) and wtf is NodeKit?

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• Small Is Beautiful #14

  

  Out with the old, in with the new!

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• Small Is Beautiful #13

  

  A rotten Apple.

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• Small Is Beautiful #12

  

  One bad Apple.

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• Small Is Beautiful #11

  

  Can the Small Web be as easy (or easier) to use than the Big Web? (Spoiler: Yes.)

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• Small Is Beautiful #10

  

  Independent and ethical video and streaming with Small Tech.

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• Small Is Beautiful #9

  

  National Rail Fail: lessons to be learned on privacy and accessibility.

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• Small Is Beautiful livestream #8

  

  An unscheduled Small Is Beautiful episode for the Svelte Nano Donation component release.

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• Small Is Beautiful livestream #7

  

  HEY, let’s talk about small tech! With guest David Heinemeier Hansson.

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• Small Is Beautiful livestream #6

  

  Join us talking to Paul Frazee about his new decentralised social network project, CTZN.

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• Small Is Beautiful livestream #5

  

  Join Sander van der Waal, research director at Waag, alongside Martine Delannoy and Karl-Filip Coenegrachts from Cities of People as we discuss what the public stack is, why it’s necessary, and how we can fund projects for the public good with public money.

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• Small is Beautiful livestream #4

  

  Laura and Aral discuss Live Streaming on a Budget (including creating transcripts and captions!)

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• Small is Beautiful livestream #3

  

  Discussing Free and Open Education with Pine64 and elementary OS with brilliant guests.

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• Small is Beautiful livestream #2

  

  The second live stream where we discussed our recent work at Small Technology Foundation.

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• Small is Beautiful livestream #1

  

  The first live stream where we spoke to Daniel Foré from Elementary OS.

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• Towards a Small Web – Howest 2020

  

  Aral’s live stream to students at Howest in Kortrijk, December 2020

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• Eastern Partnership Civil Society Online Hackathon 2020

  

  Laura Kalbag and Aral Balkan gave a keynote on Big Tech vs Small Tech at the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Online Hackathon 2020.

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• Live: Small Tech > Big Tech

  

  Aral Balkan spoke at the Interactive Futures Exhibition 2020.

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• Accessibility in 2020

  

  Laura gave a short talk on the importance of accessibility in 2020.

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• Beyond surveillance capitalism: alternatives, stopgaps, Small Web, and Site.js.

  

  Aral on the Small Web and Site.js at Creative Mornings Istanbul. June 2020.

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• Small Technology

  

  Laura and Aral speaking at ThinkAbout! in Cologne, Germany. May 2019.

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• Disruptive Design: Harmful Patterns and Bad Practice

  

  Laura speaking at From Business to Buttons in Stockholm, Sweden. May 2019.

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• Sabotaging Our Future Selves

  

  Laura speaking at Webstock in Wellington, New Zealand. February 2018.

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• The Nature of The Self in the Digital Age

  

  When Aral was on BBC World Service: World Have Your Say, speaking about Apple, FBI & Encryption, the BBC made this short video. February 2016.

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• Ethical Design and Democracy

  

  Aral at ‘Power To The People’ at De Balie in Amsterdam. January 2016.

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• Internet As A Commons

  

  Aral at the “Internet As A Commons” conference at the European Parliament. Brussels, Belgium. October 2015.

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• The Camera Panopticon

  

  Aral at The Big Brother Awards in Amsterdam, Netherlands. November 2014.

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• Superheroes & Villains in Design

  

  Aral at Thinking Digital in Newcastle, UK. May 2013.

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