A new curated internet.
The rise of community-curated knowledge networks
The Internet put thousands of years of human thought at our fingertips, and enabled billions of people to create content. At least 2.5…
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 State of the Web at Google I/O 2018
The web is a global treasure, and has many strengths we all enjoy. It is a distribution platform like no other, providing people around the ...
Home - DWeb for Creators - Gray Area
DWeb for Creators is an online course that empowers artists, designers, archivists, gallerists, curators, and others with the knowledge and tools necessary for exploring the decentralized web. Participants in this course engage with technologies like blockchain and mesh networks; examine case studies in curation, publishing, data sovereignty, and community building; and apply decolonial approaches to world building as they envision the future of DWeb technologies.
AI Might Be Our Best Shot At Taking Back The Open Web
I remember, pretty clearly, my excitement over the early World Wide Web. I had been on the internet for a year or two at that point, mostly using IRC, Usenet, and Gopher (along with email, naturall…
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.
Weave
Weave is accelerating the interoperability of the internet's missing trust layer. True community portability. Trust that travels.
Weave
Weave is accelerating the interoperability of the internet's missing trust layer. True community portability. Trust that travels.
Hypermedia
Welcome to the Hypermedia Protocol: a decentralized publishing and discussion network
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.
Society Desperately Needs An Alternative Web
In a world of rampant technology, and what will be the future of our planet, it is inflicting harms in the very fabric of society who depends on it. Is it too late to steer its path towards an internet intended to free information, preserve our privacy and be accountable to the needs of humanity?
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.
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...
Semble — Make sense of the web, together
A place for mapping the web, connecting ideas, and building shared knowledge.
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…
