The Meshed Society is the post-industrial world rewired by the Internet. With it come many new opportunities for humanity, not least the possibility of being a peer creator with the rest of the world rather than just a consumer and work-unit. It also brings new threat modes — surveillance capitalism, bubble-based populism, stochastic crimes and more products of massive connection.

I’m working in the middle of it trying to make things better, as well as observing it close up. This newsletter carries articles, link-lists and occasionally essays about my experiences and thoughts, together with my own original photographs. Join me!

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Independent geek working for digital liberty. Director of Standards/Policy@OSI (previously OSI President). Also doing other stuff. My opinions alone.