The dysfunction of social networks is a problem we must tackle
www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Dysfunction.html
but remember there are lots of great things on the internet too! www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
Don’t throw away your [kids] phone. Use the good things. #webwewant
www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Dysfunction.html
but remember there are lots of great things on the internet too! www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
Don’t throw away your [kids] phone. Use the good things. #webwewant
The Dysfunction of Social Networks - Design Issues - Tim Berners-Lee
www.w3.org
September 4, 2024 at 4:52 PM
The dysfunction of social networks is a problem we must tackle
www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Dysfunction.html
but remember there are lots of great things on the internet too! www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
Don’t throw away your [kids] phone. Use the good things. #webwewant
www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Dysfunction.html
but remember there are lots of great things on the internet too! www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
Don’t throw away your [kids] phone. Use the good things. #webwewant
2/7 Feed manipulation is using addictive algorithms in social media. Embedding addictiveness to these algorithms should be banned ⬇️
www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
The Dysfunction of Social Networks - Design Issues - Tim Berners-Lee
www.w3.org
January 31, 2025 at 6:22 PM
2/7 Feed manipulation is using addictive algorithms in social media. Embedding addictiveness to these algorithms should be banned ⬇️
www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
4/7 We need to *build* on the good with *new* better collaborative apps where social apps are interoperable through standards.
www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
Home - Solid
Solidproject.org
January 31, 2025 at 6:22 PM
4/7 We need to *build* on the good with *new* better collaborative apps where social apps are interoperable through standards.
www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
3/7 We should also recognise that a lot of the things on the internet are good. The map in my Design Issues note shows the good there is online ⬇️
www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
The Good on the Internet - Design Issues - Tim Berners-Lee
www.w3.org
January 31, 2025 at 6:22 PM
3/7 We should also recognise that a lot of the things on the internet are good. The map in my Design Issues note shows the good there is online ⬇️
www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
Purposefully constraining yourself to the Principle of Least Power reduces the attack surface and opens up huge data analysis capabilities later.
Every programmer should take a look at Tim Burners-Lee article.
Written in 1998, but still insanely relevant today: www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
Every programmer should take a look at Tim Burners-Lee article.
Written in 1998, but still insanely relevant today: www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
July 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Purposefully constraining yourself to the Principle of Least Power reduces the attack surface and opens up huge data analysis capabilities later.
Every programmer should take a look at Tim Burners-Lee article.
Written in 1998, but still insanely relevant today: www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
Every programmer should take a look at Tim Burners-Lee article.
Written in 1998, but still insanely relevant today: www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
6/7 Given rapid advancements in AI, it's critical we build on top of good systems. Thank you @mitofficial.bsky.social Dome (one of Davos's coolest stages) for hosting @inrupt.bsky.social to talk about Charlie, an AI that works for you, built on top of the Solid Protocol
www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
Charlie Works - Design Issues
www.w3.org
January 31, 2025 at 6:22 PM
6/7 Given rapid advancements in AI, it's critical we build on top of good systems. Thank you @mitofficial.bsky.social Dome (one of Davos's coolest stages) for hosting @inrupt.bsky.social to talk about Charlie, an AI that works for you, built on top of the Solid Protocol
www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
What would we call a school of (software) architecture that took the unconventional step of following the web’s design principles? www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
Principles of Design
www.w3.org
October 31, 2024 at 12:25 PM
What would we call a school of (software) architecture that took the unconventional step of following the web’s design principles? www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
i really hope the 'web' culture of 90's/aughts can better evince itself in the future. the hyperlink to me defines this hypermedia, let's us as we talk expose & make available the material that we refer to.
Tim Berners-Lee's Axioms of the Web is a high humanist document:
www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
Tim Berners-Lee's Axioms of the Web is a high humanist document:
www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
Univeral Resource Identifiers -- Axioms of Web
architecture
www.w3.org
December 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM
i really hope the 'web' culture of 90's/aughts can better evince itself in the future. the hyperlink to me defines this hypermedia, let's us as we talk expose & make available the material that we refer to.
Tim Berners-Lee's Axioms of the Web is a high humanist document:
www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
Tim Berners-Lee's Axioms of the Web is a high humanist document:
www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
Thanks for the feedback. "Tim Berners-Lee, appears not to use fediverse products — ... but neglected to mention either the fediverse or ActivityPub " Both should be fixed. The article www.w3.org/DesignIssues... now mentions AP and Fediverse, and I'm on AP at w3c.social/@timbl
timbl (@timbl@w3c.social)
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w3c.social
September 26, 2024 at 4:36 PM
Thanks for the feedback. "Tim Berners-Lee, appears not to use fediverse products — ... but neglected to mention either the fediverse or ActivityPub " Both should be fixed. The article www.w3.org/DesignIssues... now mentions AP and Fediverse, and I'm on AP at w3c.social/@timbl
look, I would have lost my mind long ago if I invented the web, but this bit from TBL is a weird trip www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
this para made my chin and eyebrows move in opposite directions 😬
this para made my chin and eyebrows move in opposite directions 😬
March 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
look, I would have lost my mind long ago if I invented the web, but this bit from TBL is a weird trip www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
this para made my chin and eyebrows move in opposite directions 😬
this para made my chin and eyebrows move in opposite directions 😬
April 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I love this from @timbl.bsky.social www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
Vision of a new World - Design Issues
www.w3.org
March 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I love this from @timbl.bsky.social www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
Tim Berners-Lee, the Founder of the World Wide Web, is on the Fediverse. @timbl@w3c.social is his account, so give him a follow.
And he just wrote a great note about Solid Protocol, a relatively new initiative that will allow everyone to control their own personal data.
www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
And he just wrote a great note about Solid Protocol, a relatively new initiative that will allow everyone to control their own personal data.
www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
Vision of a new World - Design Issues
www.w3.org
January 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Tim Berners-Lee, the Founder of the World Wide Web, is on the Fediverse. @timbl@w3c.social is his account, so give him a follow.
And he just wrote a great note about Solid Protocol, a relatively new initiative that will allow everyone to control their own personal data.
www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
And he just wrote a great note about Solid Protocol, a relatively new initiative that will allow everyone to control their own personal data.
www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
Also, here is Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web in 1989, sharing his thoughts on linked data:
www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
Linked Data - Design Issues
www.w3.org
February 16, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Also, here is Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web in 1989, sharing his thoughts on linked data:
www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
Good to see but strangely no mention of W3C or Berners-Lee's @timbl.bsky.social Solid Protocol: www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
March 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Good to see but strangely no mention of W3C or Berners-Lee's @timbl.bsky.social Solid Protocol: www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
Does anybody happen to know if there's a clearly licensed photograph of the 5-star open data mug available somewhere? It's a bit ironic that this iconic object advocating for open data is maybe itself not unabiguously open (https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html)
May 5, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Does anybody happen to know if there's a clearly licensed photograph of the 5-star open data mug available somewhere? It's a bit ironic that this iconic object advocating for open data is maybe itself not unabiguously open (https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html)
If I may suggest, when speaking of Linked Open Data it is better to use regular http URIs (not urn) according to what Tim Berners Lee reported in this famous article www.w3.org/DesignIssues... Finally, if images are under the CC-BY-NC license, they are no longer open data.
Linked Data - Design Issues
www.w3.org
March 18, 2024 at 10:33 PM
If I may suggest, when speaking of Linked Open Data it is better to use regular http URIs (not urn) according to what Tim Berners Lee reported in this famous article www.w3.org/DesignIssues... Finally, if images are under the CC-BY-NC license, they are no longer open data.
My article with design researcher Deger Ozkaramanli (@tudelft) on introducing the existential ethics of Simone de Beauvoir to the design for behavior change field has now been published in the latest issue of #DesignIssues!
direct.mit.edu/desi/article...
direct.mit.edu/desi/article...
Beauvoir versus Behavior Change: Introducing Existential Ethics to the Politics of Design
Abstract. We identify a dilemma currently faced by designers and design researchers concerning how best to use the influential nature of design to change people's behavior in a way that benefits socie...
direct.mit.edu
April 18, 2024 at 9:21 AM
My article with design researcher Deger Ozkaramanli (@tudelft) on introducing the existential ethics of Simone de Beauvoir to the design for behavior change field has now been published in the latest issue of #DesignIssues!
direct.mit.edu/desi/article...
direct.mit.edu/desi/article...
i really like the idea of MCP's that expose and talk about resources. having practical references is cool and amazing! know what we are talking about! article of faith:
www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
but in LLM practice:
i really have no flipping idea what this is about,
how it works,
what it is for.
www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
but in LLM practice:
i really have no flipping idea what this is about,
how it works,
what it is for.
Univeral Resource Identifiers -- Axioms of Web
architecture
www.w3.org
December 26, 2025 at 8:55 PM
i really like the idea of MCP's that expose and talk about resources. having practical references is cool and amazing! know what we are talking about! article of faith:
www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
but in LLM practice:
i really have no flipping idea what this is about,
how it works,
what it is for.
www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
but in LLM practice:
i really have no flipping idea what this is about,
how it works,
what it is for.
Personal LLMs are the future, but we need to rally for standards that protect our privacy and security. We already have good ideas on how to achieve this => www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
Charlie Works - Design Issues
www.w3.org
September 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Personal LLMs are the future, but we need to rally for standards that protect our privacy and security. We already have good ideas on how to achieve this => www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
And we already have the technical foundation to tackle the privacy/security aspects of this, as per Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the WWW -> www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
Charlie Works - Design Issues
www.w3.org
September 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
And we already have the technical foundation to tackle the privacy/security aspects of this, as per Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the WWW -> www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
@chrysn @jyasskin indeed, “memento” points from an original resource to a snapshot thereof, whereas “original” points from a snapshot of a resource the original. In Tim BL’s terminology, the original resource is a “time generic” resource https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Generic.html
Generic Resources
www.w3.org
November 16, 2025 at 4:16 PM
@chrysn @jyasskin indeed, “memento” points from an original resource to a snapshot thereof, whereas “original” points from a snapshot of a resource the original. In Tim BL’s terminology, the original resource is a “time generic” resource https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Generic.html
Idea to name our vocational training AI assistent: Charlie.
www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
Charlie Works - Design Issues
www.w3.org
September 29, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Idea to name our vocational training AI assistent: Charlie.
www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
www.w3.org/DesignIssues...
Hi Tim, great writeup! Just noticed a typo in the DesignIssues/Good(www.w3.org/DesignIssues...) : you mention ADP where it should be ATP (or ATProto). Thanks!
The Good Things - Design Issues - Tim Berners-Lee
www.w3.org
September 6, 2024 at 7:37 PM
Hi Tim, great writeup! Just noticed a typo in the DesignIssues/Good(www.w3.org/DesignIssues...) : you mention ADP where it should be ATP (or ATProto). Thanks!
7 years ago, @timbl.bsky.social shared his thinking about a privacy-preserving personal AI www.w3.org/DesignIssues... using data stored and accessed via Solid protocols. Inflection.AI seemed to be a step in the direction of a personal AI - but recent announcements make me less sure.
Charlie works for Bob - Design Issues
www.w3.org
March 21, 2024 at 8:48 AM
7 years ago, @timbl.bsky.social shared his thinking about a privacy-preserving personal AI www.w3.org/DesignIssues... using data stored and accessed via Solid protocols. Inflection.AI seemed to be a step in the direction of a personal AI - but recent announcements make me less sure.