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Richard MacManus
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New AWN market signals post: The machine-readable web becomes a business problem
This week I look beyond the Cloudflare bot-traffic headline and connect several signals pointing in the same direction:
- bot traffic as machine demand
- Microsoft Web IQ as grounding infrastructure
- atomic brand […]
What a treat, and looking forward to the writeup of the new Zeldman.com design soon! #WebDesignHistory https://front-end.social/@zeldman/116697563568403895
Attached: 1 image You must remember this. It’s early-2000s zeldman.com. Enjoy a look back at 31 years of site design evolution. https://zeldman.com/2026/06/04/remembrance-of-zeldman-coms-past/ #design #blogs #blogging #indieweb #personalsites
A ‘semantic Flash’-like future for the human web? Interesting thoughts here…
“The future of the web will likely become more semantic, more structured, and more machine-readable than ever before.
But HTML-in-canvas may allow it to become more expressive than ever, too.” […]
Who owns that AI agent?
In my latest Agentic Web News post, I look at DNSid, a project from Innovation Labs / Identity Digital that aims to provide a DNS-based accountability layer for AI agents.
The bigger question: will agent identity become part of the open web's shared infrastructure, or […]
“After lots of corporate shuffling, #Flickr ended up in the hands of a family-owned company, SmugMug, and they made the Flickr Foundation to preserve public photos for the next 100 years”
via @anildash
https://www.anildash.com/2026/04/30/artemis-photos-flickr/
