Manuel Moreale, encouraging us all to follow all the links in his seminal series People & Blogs…
This series lives on my blog but has nothing to do with me. It exists to connect you, the human who’s reading this, with all the other wonderful humans that are still out there, spending their time making sure the old school web, the one made by the people, for the people, is not dying. And see that bump on Nic’s analytics made me so happy. Because it means the series is working and doing its job. And it’s all because people like you are taking the time to read these interviews and click on those links to visit those blogs. And maybe you’re also taking time to reach out to those people and connect with them. This is the web many people are missing, a web that is, in fact, still here, very much alive.
I’ve directly connected with many people Manuel has interviewed for his series and they’ve reached out to me (presumably because they’ve come back to my website and read my posts or subscribed to my feed).
I’m really, really worried about the web. The combination of AI web browsers and agentic coding may just change the entire model of how the internet works. And I’m struggling to see how the parts of the web we love the most will even be accessible in the future. For example, web browsers are very difficult to build and I’m worried they won’t all ditch the document model for the agent model soon. I’m likely overthinking it but I’m super worried.
So yes, please, click all the links, read all the blogs, tell each other that you’re doing so. Keep the web alive and filled with human thought. And, whether you use AI or not, be sure to keep a copy of a version of your favorite web browser software without AI built in handy, you may need it in the future.