Dan's Blog

A London bus headed for Clapham Junction.

What is the web?

It’s certainly been an interesting year.

Today I’ll be traveling to Geneva to attend the Global Digital Collaboration Conference which seeks to “foster wallets, credentials and trusted infrastructure for the benefit of all humans.”

I’m very pleased to report that I have been elected to the W3C Advisory Board, and I’ll be starting my official term in July!

People love to proclaim the death of the web.

I’ll never forget the day when I got the call from Tim Berners-Lee, asking me if I would co-chair the W3C Technical Architecture Group, along with Peter Linss.

Lots happened in 2024.

Today, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) published the Ethical Web Principles as a “Statement.”

I’m running for OpenSSF TAC, as an independent, in an election that any OpenSSF participants are eligible to vote in.

Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash In navigating the landscape of technology and digital innovation, we often find ourselves having to deal with complex concepts that cross between the technical, policy and legal domains.

What’s an influencer, anyway?

Today, as reported in the Guardian and elsewhere, Twitter suspended accounts of several journalists who had reported on Elon Musk and have also suspended accounts related to Mastodon as well as banning or “shadow-banning” people who talk about or link to…

Consensus.

This blog is now a part of the #fediverse.