Ello’s arrival may mark the beginning of a kinder, gentler era in social media.
![Ello promises a less creepy business model, writes Hind [AFP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/201410782718594734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

Daniel Hind is the author of The Threat to Reason and The Return of the Public. His third book, The Magic Kingdom, will be published in September.
Ello’s arrival may mark the beginning of a kinder, gentler era in social media.
![Ello promises a less creepy business model, writes Hind [AFP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/201410782718594734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Scotland vote raises questions about the relationship between the state and the people in an age of
![The campaign cast an unflattering light on core British institutions, writes Hind [EPA]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/201492061138554734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Britain’s rulers are under intense and growing pressure and technology and intelligence will not help them.
![Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron recently announced a $1.3bn intelligence and surveillance package [Reuters]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/2014730134228614734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
What would an alternative to Facebook look like? Where would it come from?
![Facebook manipulated the newsfeed of hundreds of thousands of users for a behavioural experiment [AP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/2014751824569734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
The non-immigrant working class in northern Europe have become figures of fun and objects of derision in the media.
![An Open Society report says 'white working class' in northern Europe has been misrepresented in media [Getty Images]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/201462481733810734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
There is more to being human than mere citizenship, whether you are an anarchist, a socialist or a social democrat.
![The crisis that began in 2007 might have been a moment when organised workers rediscovered their radical roots, writes Hind [EPA]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/2014691023650580_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Why is London so popular with foreign-born billionaires?
!["The attempt to maintain London as the centre of global capitalism requires tremendous dexterity from the country's rulers," writes Hind [Getty Images]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/201451715716179734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Is internet freedom imagined or real?

The Scots are slowly turning away from the ambiguities and consolations of Britain.
![The debate in Scotland threatens to shake the English out of their torpor in matters constitutional, writes Hind [Getty Images]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/2014227121024393734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
The exodus of journalists lured by better pay in the corporate communications field is destroying the news industry.
!["The migration of business journalists into corporate public relations and finance, is... about the long-term shift in the balance of power between popular constituencies and the private sector," writes Daniel Hind [AFP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/201311213027442580_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)