There’s a more human approach to the future web than Web3 — Online these days — that is to say, on social media — there’s an aggressive line of apocalyptic/utopian thinking about the demise of the platform internet, or Web 2.0, and the rise of a new, more perfect web. The prophesy espoused, mostly by bros, is that the next form of…

How the internet changed our approach to knowledge — and stopped us from thinking — A clip that circulated widely on Twitter this Wednesday shows a CBC journalist getting shouted at by a freedom convoy protester. Joseph Tunney was working on a story about an Ottawa Police statement regarding children at the protest. …

Web3 is probably not what you think — You can thank Kara Swisher for this post. She’s started asking questions on Twitter about Web 3.0, or Web3 (for a post of her own, I believe). In response, I offered a bit of commentary. …

“Marginalia” up-ranks sites that are text-heavy — with truly offbeat results. Call it “serendipity engineering” — Hey nerds: I recently stumbled across “Marginalia Search”. It’s a search engine with a fascinating design — rather than give you exactly what you’re looking for, it tries to surprise you. How does it do this? By up-ranking web sites that are text-heavy, and downranking ones that are highly visual…

Retrieving the great, big, migratory meta-community of digital nomads — One of things I really loved about the early net was how open and free it felt. Before the internet was even the internet, Al Gore was talking about the possibility of an “information superhighway” connecting educators and researchers with one another as well as one another’s work. We never…

It’s not just a virtual world that we can step into, but one we can embody ourselves — While billionaires Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos took their space-crafts for a spin into outer space, another billionaire focused on the challenge of competing in an entirely different universe. The driving ambition to expand and explore is driven by a primal urge to escape our origins and reach for the…

The first and only Tribeca Technology Conference was an odd mix of Hollywood celebrities and internet startups reeling from the dot-com crash — In the fall of 2000, before we lost our innocence, before the towers came crashing down, before a Harvard dropout connected and upended the world, and when “binge” still meant wildly over-eating, Tribeca Films held a digital film and technology conference.