It amazes me how much money our professional societies spend on outside firms to make certain their conference websites get worse and worse every single year
Reckoning: Frontend's Lost Decade | Alex Russell | performance.now() 2024
The Pac-Man Rule at Conferences
I firmly believe that conferences can provide a lot of value for people in an industry. Conferences allow people to create a network, which helps them feel integrated in a community and profession....
Web Directions Conferences (and more)
Conferences for web and digital professionals, in person and online
How Facebook and Google fund global misinformation
The tech giants are paying millions of dollars to the operators of clickbait pages, bankrolling the deterioration of information ecosystems around the world.
Mikel Artetxe on Twitter / X
3/4 papers I reviewed and 2/3 reviews I got this ARR cycle were AI slop. Fraudsters are already outnumbering honest researchers. Unless drastic measures are urgently adopted, conference publications will have zero value or even become negative signal, and academia will be toast.— Mikel Artetxe (@artetxem) September 19, 2026
“Data Strikes”: Evaluating the Effectiveness of a New Form of Collective Action Against Technology Companies | The World Wide Web Conference
Collaborative recommendation is effective at representing a user's overall interests and tastes, and finding peer users that can provide good recommendations. However, it remains a challenge to make collaborative recommendation sensitive to a user's ...
Who Wins The Browser Wars?
Impressions from my time with Perplexity’s Comet and The Browser Company’s Dia
Funding The Web: From Cartel to Covenant
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!
Conference Takeaways
I’m back from ATmosphereConf in Vancouver, and I’m processing what I saw and heard. The atproto developer community could not have been nicer and more welcoming. Here are some takeaways. The…
Wikipedia Made $184 Million in 2025, Spent $3.4 Million on Hosting
Wikipedia Made $184 Million in 2025, Spent $3.4 Million on Hosting
Conference Takeaways I’m back from ATmosphereConf in Vancouver, and I'm processing what I saw and heard. The atproto developer community could not have been nicer and more welcoming. Here are some takeaways. ... toni.org/2026/04/03/conference-takeawa…
Conference Takeaways
toni.orgThe most annoying part of using these apps for professional conferences is signing up, linking with people, and losing those connections b/c you never use the app again. This seems like something AT protocol was made for. Anyone at @sifa.id or @semble.so interested in putting this together? 👀
Richard Ferro, MD MSc
Is there already a conference app on AT proto?
There’s some conversation in the Atmosphere right now about how we turn @atproto.com projects into sustainable businesses. One of the biggest opportunities is sitting right in front of us: give publishers back the audience development business they spent the last 20 years outsourcing to platforms.
A brief 🧵 for all outside the #atproto bubble on why, from a digital industrial policy perspective, this step is deeply bewildering. There's @eurosky.social – open source, non-profit, fully aligned with the EU's open source strategy. It provides all that W has, & more. And yet, the Commission...
European Commission
We have now joined W, a new European social media network. We’re present on 15+ platforms, and are especially happy to join one based in Europe and with the ambition to foster open and safer online conversations. Keep the conversation going - whether from W, Bluesky or other compatible apps.
