Meditations on The Human 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.

Millions of Volunteers Are Keeping the Internet Human. For Now.

We’re never going back to the human internet we had. But we can hope for a better internet than the AI-dominated one that is emerging, writes Sarah Gilbert.

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…

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.

We Need To Rewild The Internet

The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.

Filling the potholes of the web.

People with the power to fix our inaccessible web have failed to do it for long enough. Isn’t it time to imagine ways we can repair the web without waiting for them?

My journey to the heart of the forgotten internet

Slowly but surely, huge swaths of the internet are vanishing. But the artefacts of the early web are still out there, and they have lessons for the future.

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?

It's time to rebuild the web

The web was never supposed to be a few walled gardens of concentrated content owned by a few major publishers; it was supposed to be a cacophony of different sites and voices.

Can We Survive Technology

Search the history of more than 1 trillion web pages.

Can AI slop help us save the internet?

Disrupting the status quo and opening space for new visions

we were online

Turn the internet into a living, shared space with real-time traces of people browsing.

Wholesome internet 🌱

I’m watering a “cursed websites” folder in my digital garden shed, but also a “wholesome websites” counterpart, like any reasonably sane person on the internet should do in this day and age. And that's that.

rip.so :: the digital graveyard

A memorial to the messengers, social networks, browsers and websites the internet forgot.

How We Can Make the Internet Helpful Again

Amid an infodemic of misinformation and manipulation, it feels like the Internet uses us more than we use it. Taking back control is possible.