Category: thoughts

  • WEB XXV

    So today was the 25th anniversary of when Sir Tim wrote the first draft of the proposal that would lead to the birth of the ‘world wide web’. There has been plenty of coverage today about his call for a ‘bill of rights‘ to protect the freedom and independence of the web. It is noticeable…

  • My 2013 in 15 links

    It is that time of year again – there is no escape from my entirely self indulgent review of the year! This time I am cheating a bit though and am just pointing to a collection of things I wrote this year which I think pretty much sums up my year…for better or worse. TL;DR…

  • Web of Words as a Service

    I’ve been playing around with this idea for an email newsletter type of thing (as that just seems to be the thing to do these days!). The basic premise of the idea is one important or influential article that has shaped the way we think about the web and digital space sent in full once…

  • Rooting for Robox

    I’ve been pretty interested in Kickstarter for quite a while now. I’ve backed a couple of projects – early on I contributed to the DS106 campaign and then more recently I supported both the Ghost blogging platform (really should think of what to do with my blog over there!) and also the Veronica Mars movie…

  • The Redecentralized IndieWeb

    I’ve been following a couple of ‘movements’ online for the last few months that I’ve found interesting and certainly share quite a few principles with but somehow I just don’t quite click with either of them. I think the people behind (and supporting) redecentralize.org and indiewebcamp.com are almost certainly right in what they are trying…