Notes from a wonderfully interdisciplinary Edinburgh workshop on 'Rewilding the Web', ranging coopetition and biological variety through the philosophy of self-organisation, polycrisis governance, protopian science fiction, and moderation seen through the lens of artisanal cheese.
FediForum | Growing the Open Social Web un-workshop, 2026/03/02
From Volunteer Gardening to Building Next-Gen Distributed Web Apps: My Journey to Holochain App…
A story about discovering community, a mind-warping internet paradigm and a global network of unconventional software engineers.
Semble — Make sense of the web, together
A place for mapping the web, connecting ideas, and building shared knowledge.
Toward Wayfinding Infrastructure for the Living Web · Atlas Research Group
Our world is getting crazier by the day. Our old maps and compasses weren’t made for this complexity. While new tools may open up amazing possibilities, they also make it easier to lose ourselves – especially when they don’t belong to us, and make us vulnerable to other people’s hidden choices and unsavory intentions about what is worth attending to.
Introducing Ringspace: A Proposal for the Human Web
For months, I've been working on a project to demonstrate how we can preserve humanity on the web. It's finally ready for testing.
How the Web Was Lost – James Gleick
This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Webby Tim Berners-Lee with Stephen WittFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 389 pp., $30
A scouting movement for the web
I’ve been thinking about ‘a scouting movement for the web’ for a while: a practical movement focused on skills, creativity and the internet. I finally got around to doing a talk o…
A more social IndieWeb | Dominik Hofer
My entry for the IndieWeb Carnival of December 2025 about the IndieWeb in 2030.
Beyond the Individual: Understanding the Evolution of Collective Intelligence
This chapter outlines the evolution of collective intelligence, starting from its ancient roots and concluding with modern digital platforms. It discusses intelligence theories, project examples, and the impact of technology on collaborative efforts. Key focuses include the role of the internet and online communities in boosting our collective IQ, with a particular emphasis on Douglas Engelbart's contributions and the open-source movement, as exemplified by Linux's development. The chapter examines how digital transformation has facilitated new forms of community and knowledge sharing, significantly influencing fields such as management, decision-making, and organizational learning. Various scholars and their definitions of CI are discussed, including Pierre Lévy's vision of universally distributed intelligence and the concept of swarm intelligence in biological sciences. We then move on to practically implemented CI projects, exploring crowdsourcing as a manifestation of CI in business and social projects and examining possibilities of harnessing the wisdom of crowds for problem-solving and innovation. The chapter concludes with a presentation of the current state of collective intelligence academic research.
I dropped by Edinburgh for a workshop on 'rewilding the web', with participation from philosophers, technologists, ecologists, architects, mathematicians, authors and landscape planners. anil.recoil.org/notes/rewilding-the-web-repor… @kathrynnave.eurosky.social @mariafarrell.eurosky.social @robin.berjon.com 🌎
Rewilding the Web: my workshop report from Edinburgh
anil.recoil.orgbeing utopian about the web is very 90s but this is like everything people dreamed the web would be. I need to read more about atproto asap overreacted.io/open-social/
Cosmik Network
Semble alpha is now open! ✨ Check it out at semble.so More details in our leaflet pub! (link in next post > )
The web we lost
A melancholy reflection about what happened to the web mixed with some positive imagination about to do about it.
What Was the Internet?
Google Reader was building the wrong future
We Build On Hope @ PublicSpaces Conference 2026
Against the dark forest
J. R. Carpenter || A Handmade Web
The web was always about redistribution of power. Let's bring that back.
