







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


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.

Semble — Make sense of the web, together
A place for mapping the web, connecting ideas, and building shared knowledge.
The story of this blog so far: 'AI', the death of web dev, and feeling like an outsider
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
The Together Project
What if we could actually see the acknowledgement graph that connects humans and communities in a hidden economic web?


Debate Maps — The Society Library
While The Society Library is dedicated to enabling access to information through our libraries, we recognize the difficult and tricky work of organizing that content into formal deliberation. There are hundreds of cognitive biases and logical pitfalls that can get in our way as human beings. Therefore, as a part of our service, The Society Library endeavors to map the knowledge we collect into “debate maps,” which essentially means we are organizing the arguments, claims, evidence, and opinions from all points of view into a formal debate - and effectively enabling “societal-scale debate.” A feat which may be otherwise impossible to organize in comparable levels of comprehensiveness with the existing limits of media, language, and human bandwidth to which we are confined.

What if we thought about digital spaces like an ecologist? We’d consider the incredible communities that come together over the interwebs – yes, even through social media – in a totally different way. substack.com/home/post/p-192761679