Stephen Downes

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Recent Posts

What if JavaScript wins?
What it’s like to have the social network of a celebrity, without actually being famous
Network Inequality
Introducing the Microcontent Client
OpenSocial, Killer Apps and Regular People
There's No Such Thing as "Cyberbullying"
All The App Stores
Gawker Is A Blog. Just Like Twitter.
Three's A Trend: The Decline of Google Search Quality
Facebook is gaslighting the web. We can fix it.
What Twitter's API Announcement Could Have Said
To Less Efficient Startups
Rebuilding the Web We Lost
Toward Better Conversations
It’s Not Just Code, It’s a Network
The Missing Building Blocks of the Web
12 Things Everyone Should Understand About Tech
The lost infrastructure of social media
Introducing Gomix
The web was supposed to be a thing we make
20 Years of Blogging: What I’ve Learned
“Link In Bio” is a slow knife
The People's Web
A Federal Blue Checkmark, and Not Learning Lessons
Since Some People Have Asked Me...
The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again
Systems: The Purpose of a System is What It Does
Don't call it a Substack
What Would “Good” AI Look Like?
The Internet of Consent
ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web
They have to be able to talk about us without us
How the hell are you supposed to have a career in tech in 2026?
How to know if that job will crush your soul
A Codeless Ecosystem, or hacking beyond vibe coding
Coding agents as the new compilers - Anil Dash