The Open Web is one of the world’s modern wonders. Based on core, universally recognised technical standards and owned and controlled by no one body, it is a unique structureRead More
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.
Winning back the Open Web
Walled gardens dominate because their massive data collection lets them deliver superior user experiences. To win back the open web, we need to build alternatives that respect users, embrace open standards, and still feel unmistakably better to use.
The Internet is a Series of Webs
The fate of the open web is inextricable from the other ways our world is in crisis. What can we do about it?
Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web - Neustadt.fr
We are quietly replacing an open web that connects and empowers with one that restricts and commoditizes people. We need to stop it.
Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality
The Web is critical not merely to the digital revolution but to our continued prosperity—and even our liberty. Like democracy itself, it needs defending
Some Thoughts on the Open Web
The Open Web means several things to different people, depending on context, but recently discussions have focused on the Web's Openness in terms of access to information -- how easy it is to publish and obtain information without barriers there.
The Mozilla Manifesto
These are the principles that guide our mission to promote openness, innovation & opportunity on the web.
Freeing the Web from the Browser | reinterpretcast.com
The Web is, without a doubt, the most powerful research tool currently available to man. No longer must researchers comb through endless indices and catalogues to find what they are looking for. Instead, hyperlinks allow users to associatively explore rich interconnected structures of information with ease. In just a few clicks, it is possible to navigate through a vast global space of information comprising documents on virtually any subject.
Welcome to the Post-Naive Internet Era
The grand idealism of the free and open internet might be over for now, but in its place falls a more practical mindset. Just like Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurs are entering their “Hard Tech” era, the people building web alternatives are also entering their Post-Naive Era. Here are the names to know.
The Open Web's second chance (w/ Dan Abramov) - Syntax #1025
Dan Abramov joins Scott and Wes to explain AT Protocol, the open standard quietly rebuilding the social web. They get into how it actually works, why it's way bigger than just Bluesky, and why Dan calls it one of the most interesting ideas on the internet right now.
How to Fix the Web | Brave
The Web is always in trouble for some reason or other. I remember when Microsoft came after Netscape and threatened to lock Web standards into IE. Only the Web is so big, with such reach to billions of users, that no one owns it. This means it will always be contested ground.
Funding The Web: A Wise Choice
The Web is slow-motion collapsing for multiple reasons, but at the heart of it all is a little known system: the Search/Browser Levy. Let's fix it!
Reimagining the Browser for a Green Web - Branch
The web must operate within planetary limits by phasing out fossil fuels, and reducing absolute emissions across supply chains.
