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.
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.
Toward Wayfinding Infrastructure for the Living Web · Atlas Research Group
Our world is getting crazier by the day. Our old maps and compasses weren’t made for this complexity. While new tools may open up amazing possibilities, they also make it easier to lose ourselves – especially when they don’t belong to us, and make us vulnerable to other people’s hidden choices and unsavory intentions about what is worth attending to.
FediForum | Growing the Open Social Web un-workshop, 2026/03/02
Web Platform: What are we working on?
Web Platform What are we working on? Simone Onofri WebEngineHackFest 2025
The Web’s Creator Looks to Reinvent It (Published 2016)
Tim Berners-Lee and other computer scientists are pondering newer technologies to create a web with more privacy and less government control.
we were online
Turn the internet into a living, shared space with real-time traces of people browsing.
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…
The Atmosphere . Building the open social web
Tim Berners Lee: Thoughts On The Internet Evolution
"I’ve always believed the web is for everyone. That's why I and others fight fiercely to protect it."
Scaling trust on the web
The Task Force for a Trustworthy Future Web's report on gaps and opportunities for how the next generation of online spaces will be built.
Erasure and Slop - Human-Generated Content · augment
Human Generated Content, Issue 4
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.
Framing to Grow the Open Social Web and Serve Democratic Freedoms – Position Paper / Richard Reisman
Framing to Grow the Open Social Web and Serve Democratic Freedoms – Position Paper Richard Reisman (Discussion Draft 2/13/26) For FediForum Un-Workshop March 2, 2026 Growing the usage and functionality of the social web to meet the needs of humanity requires a broadened framing of the task and ...
The Web has lost its Soul - LOVEWEB
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.
