This newsletter was sent 24th April 2017. If you’d like to keep up to speed on the hi:project, click here to subscribe. Hello hi:project newsletter subscribers. All 255 of you. I’ll get to the point. The hi:project team is collaborating […]
Originally posted on the World Wide Web Foundation website. ________ Just hearing the names of some causes tells you all you need to know. You feel them in your gut instantly, and your mind follows quickly. Democracy. Human rights. The […]
A new kind of interface has surfaced over the past five years – artificial intelligence (AI) based ‘personal assistants’. Apple Siri started the ball rolling, swiftly followed by Google Now, Microsoft Cortana, Amazon Alexa, and half a dozen others. But […]
The hi:project team is always looking for the most efficient and most effective ways to help people understand what we’re doing and why we’re doing it. It’s not always easy because the digital world is broad and deep, complicated and […]
Surveillance Capitalism is a striking turn of phrase. It captures in two words the centralised and systematic monitoring of your every action (digital and analogue now the two are increasingly difficult to tease apart), the algorithmic translation of your past […]
This newsletter was sent 7th February 2016. If you’d like to keep up to speed on the hi:project, click here to subscribe. Dame Professor Wendy Hall told me the hi:project, and the issues we grapple with, represent more of a […]
It’s coming up to 15 years since Scientific American published “The Semantic Web: A new form of Web content that is meaningful to computers will unleash a revolution of new possibilities“, by Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, and Ora Lassila. (Paywall. […]
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the Web. The W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) is a special working group chartered, as its name conveys, with stewardship of the Web architecture. The hi:project was […]
We are exploring how Solid – a proposed set of conventions in development by a project run out of MIT CSAIL – and the hi:project are mutually supportive. Solid decouples the app from the data, and the hi:project decouples the […]
Distributists believe property ownership is a fundamental right and that the means of production should be spread as widely as possible. Otherwise we’re faced with centralization by the state, by the few (a plutocracy, the 1%), or corporations (corporatocracy). I’ve […]