In Episode 23, I chat with Ben, the author of werd.io about, among other things, the role of the indie web in the broader information ecosystem, community building and growing the indie web, and more.
Ben Brown
I am a writer, programmer and artist in Austin, Texas. I have been posting on the web since way back in 1996!
After the feed with Eli Pariser, Ben Smith, and Jasmine Sun
Social Media Should Be Public Infrastructure (with Ben Cerveny)
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."
Sir Tim Berners-Lee on Building AI That Benefits Everyone
In a recent Financial Times op-ed, World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee discusses how to ensure a future of AI that benefits and protects all.
The inventor of the web Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the internet, 'fake news,' and why net neutrality is so important
Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner sat down with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, for a far-ranging conversation.
Josh Miller on Twitter / X
What if AI chat is our new front door to the web?Meet "Inline Browsing" in @diabrowser (available today)Now Dia opens webpages *within* your AI chat threads – blurring the lines between 3 categories of software: a web browser, search engine, and AI chat. Let me explain... pic.twitter.com/pRKnCOrroP— Josh Miller (@joshm) July 10, 2025
Web of the People — Open Indie
Whether you think of web3 as the advent of peer-to-peer protocols, coin-operated blockchains or autocomplete-AI synthesizers, change is c...
Tim Berners-Lee on the huge sociotechnical design challenge | TechCrunch
In a speech discussing ethics and the Internet, the inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has tasked the technology industry and its coder
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.
How the Web Was Lost – James Gleick
This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Webby Tim Berners-Lee with Stephen WittFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 389 pp., $30
Kevin Roose’s Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot: Full Transcript - The…
archived 17 Feb 2023 06:22:26 UTC
CERN70: Where the Web was born…
In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee, a young scientist working at CERN, wrote a proposal for an information management system based on the Internet. At the time, few people really understood the significance of his seemingly abstract idea. Luckily, however, his supervisor and a few colleagues had the foresight to let him work on an invention that would change the world.
The Fathers of the Internet Revolution Urge Today’s Software Engineers to Reinvent the Web
Tim Berners-Lee, Vint Cerf, and other Internet pioneers issue a challenge on a day that just might go down in tech history
Weird netizens — Open Indie
It's been a year since I wrote about Weird web pages as a prospective catalyst for the reclamation of my digital identity. There's been s...
The web we lost
A melancholy reflection about what happened to the web mixed with some positive imagination about to do about it.
The Boring Internet
We can have a different web
"A Web of Our Own Making" with Antón Barba-Kay
Patrick - I'm worried about the web
Eaten by the Internet
Historical pragmatism and the internet