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Today the gamma way is still my tiny little personal website with almost no visitors.
Only a few friends and colleagues have visited the site until this day.

It may stay a small site. There are no clear objectives to grow. If the site grows I will be pleased, but if it stays unnoticed, that is fine with me as well.

It may seem a very strange project.

The gamma way is an open and friendly site, but it is also a bit revolutionary.
It is also a call to action, a call to action for a bit more ethics on the internet.

Not old school ethics that tell you what to do or what not to do.
But new school ethics. Ethics for grown up people that can decide for themselves.

At the start the internet was a great place, with a lots of great liberating ideas.

Nowadays nobody talks about netiquette anymore.
The two biggest companies on the web, Google and Facebook, had (and still have) a lot of good intentions and great initiatives to make the world a better, more connected place.

Unfortunately, the power of money has corrupted both of them.
I still like to use both Google and Facebook. I like to communicate with friends on Facebook. I like to find my information on Google. I do this every day.

Google’s spider has already visited my website to see whether the gamma way has something interesting to tell. Apparently not. The gamma way will not show up in search results. Not yet.

The gamma way is now on Twitter, but not (yet) on Facebook.

Facebook is a great company with lots of enthusiastic and smart people.
But it has grown out of control. Today Facebook uses the data of its visitors not in a friendly way.
Not anymore. It was great in the beginning, it is still great in many ways, but there is something wrong with Facebook.

Maybe the gamma way can inspire Facebook to correct itself. It may be a strange call to action from a tiny, apparently insignificant website, but I really hope it does.

Taking the jump!

Bungy jump in New Zealand

In real life I avoid extreme sports.

Launching this website and blog today and tomorrow really feels like a huge mental bungy jump.

I just hope the rope will hold me!