Stephen Downes

I have no idea whether this idea will take off, but I'm onboard with it. The idea is that people (real human people) who create their own websites can add a file called 'human.json' where they attest that their website is created by a human and vouch for other websites they know are created by humans. It should remind you of the old 'web of trust' and I now dub this the 'web of humans'. Using it is a three-step process: create a human.json file on your website (here's mine); put a link rel="human-json" into the header of your web page pointing to the human.json file; and then install the browser extensions for Firefox and Chrome to identify sites maintained by humans. Here are the full instructions. See also Alan Levine.