You Might Debate It — If You Could See It

Saying “No” In an Age of Abundance

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

Make It Work vs. Make It Good

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

The Evolution of Creativity

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

The AI Aesthetic

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

The Subversive Hyperlink

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

Sustainable Web Manifesto

“If the Internet was a country, it would be the 13th largest polluter”

Art or tool?

The Internet spaces I tend to inhabit have more polarisation than at many other recent times, and little explication of the worldviews that lead to different premises for discussion, that in turn...

Decentralizing the Economic Power of the Web (A Reading List)

We recently hosted a panel discussion as part of our MozFest’s Dialogues & Debates series focused on interrogating the web’s reigning business model — d…

The Missing Building Blocks of the Web

At a time when millions are losing trust in the the web’s biggest sites, it’s worth revisiting the idea that the web was supposed to be…

From Space, to Time

This post is the text version of a talk I’ve been giving at several conferences (and I plan to give it a couple more times). I have spent many years observing and building things on the web and this is one of the main trends I’ve been…

Home - DWeb for Creators - Gray Area

DWeb for Creators is an online course that empowers artists, designers, archivists, gallerists, curators, and others with the knowledge and tools necessary for exploring the decentralized web. Participants in this course engage with technologies like blockchain and mesh networks; examine case studies in curation, publishing, data sovereignty, and community building; and apply decolonial approaches to world building as they envision the future of DWeb technologies.

Meditations on The Human Web

To save the internet, we may have to rebuild it.

Opinion | How to Save the Web (Published 2018)

Governments, businesses and users around the world must commit to a set of fundamental principles for the web.

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.

Rewilding the Web: my workshop report from Edinburgh

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.