







A popular old essay about finding calm and rhythm online.
FOLI (there is no movement without rhythm) Educational documentary on rhythm
“Are Protocols Elite?” in Rythms – Writings and rehearsals by Nathan Schneider
For a taste of what I’ve been working on this season, I have a new, tiny-little essay in the in-house journal of our Center for Media, Religion, and Culture, Rhythms: “Are Protocols Elite?” Based on a collab with Avery Edenfield. https://www.colorado.edu/cmrc/2025/11/06/rhythms-fall-2025-counter-media

Introducing Slow Social
I’d like to introduce you to Slow Social. Slow Social is my idea of what I wish social networks...

Speaking is quick, listening is slow
Posted on Friday 27 Feb 2026. 925 words, 17 links. By Matt Webb.

The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet
A book about how to survive on the internet. It’s about the cozy web, the dark web, the dark forest, the clear net, the dark net, and a new social world emerging around us. This is the Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet.
Tempo - Social Music Sharing App - App Store
Download Tempo - Social Music Sharing by La Corporation Tempo Inc. on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Tempo -…

BAD MOOD: chasing the distorted side of ambient
Hi #atmosphere ! We’re building a new way to have fun with music on the web and we wanted to share the process with you. Here are a few words on the genesis of Tempo.
Music is About Community
tempo.leaflet.pubI wrote something about atproto from the perspective of having lived through the early days of the internet. timtrautmann.com/blog/the-nerds-are-building-a…
The nerds are building a new internet, and I could feel it in the room
timtrautmann.comFun fact: Tempo, as an idea, started long before we knew what the #atmosphere was. We wrote this short #leaflet #blog text to introduce the people who have been following us from our CENTECH accelerator days to this concept.
One Account For The Entire Web
tempo.leaflet.pubAI as the Catalyst of the New Paradigm of Science? | Cadmus Journal

Reinventing Discovery

A new app, HyperTexting, turns the open web into a scrollable social media-like feed | TechCrunch
marking off AI slop / seo spam pages experimenting with collective action on the whole internet
HTTP gave us hypertext, atproto gives us "social hypertext"
Building on some of @chrisshank.com's work, what if we had browsers that were atproto-native? orange link = in your PDS green link = in the…