Richard MacManus

@ricmac
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Tech analyst @ https://agenticweb.news · Internet historian @ https://cybercultural.com · Founded ReadWriteWeb (2003–2012) · 🥝 in 🇬🇧
Personal websitehttps://ricmac.org
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Internet history bloghttps://cybercultural.com
I will say this about the fediverse: it’s not the kind of place where a company or someone still working there will post “We’re expanding and hiring!” just a few months after it laid off 75% of its staff. Small mercies.
Recent slide deck "Is the Semantic Web Vision Still Relevant?" from @jahendler and @ora is really good. https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/is-the-semantic-web-vison-still-relevant/287979347
Is the Semantic Web Vison Still Relevant?

A joint talk by Jim Hendler and Ora Lassila at KGC 2026 -- this talk was in honor of the lifetime achievement award in knowledge graphs given to the two of us plus Tim Berners-Lee, celebrating the 25th anniversary of our Scientific American article on the Semantic Web. - Download as a PDF or view online for free

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Happy Birthday to Alan Turing, who was born on this day in 1912. Alan Turing introduced the concept of the universal computing machine, showing that a single machine could perform any computation that can be described by an algorithm. The ACM A.M. Turing Award was named in his honor.
The fediverse
it's the least bad option we have
...is a thing you could say
The fediverse
it sorta works
35.2%
it's good enough
45.9%
it could be worse
18.9%
Poll ended at .

This is Tyler Fischer, the solo builder behind Sill, and one of the Excellence Award Winners of the #OpenSocialAwards 🏆

We really do use Sill everyday for finding widely-shared links from Bluesky and Mastodon. It’s an incredibly useful tool that defies the algorithms, ads, and feeds of traditional social media.

My latest newsletter -> This week's market signals suggest the conversation is moving beyond AI models and toward enterprise infrastructure.

AWS + Adobe are using MCP to connect enterprise agents, Vercel has launched its eve framework, Okta has published an agent identity roadmap, and Google has proposed an open discovery layer.

Together they point to the emergence of an enterprise agent stack.

https://agenticweb.news/agent-stack-becomes-enterprise-infrastructure/ #AgenticWeb

The agent stack is becoming enterprise infrastructure

From agent frameworks and MCP integrations to identity governance and open discovery, this week’s market signals show the agent stack rapidly gaining adoption in the enterprise.

Agentic Web News

“The small moments that used to make the web worth visiting are disappearing.

“Brands have spent the past year funding AI strategy, but consumers can’t point to a single company they think is getting it right.

“A less human web costs you readers. Your audience can sense when a machine is talking to them. Most are checking out before they’ve decided whether they care.”

https://wpvip.com/future-of-the-web-2026/

Future of the Web 2026: Chapter 1

Original research from 2,000 decision-makers and consumers on AI brand visibility, content trust, and what brands need to do as the web feels less human. 74% say the internet feels less human than it did 10 years ago.

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Ever wanted to write multiple Markdown(ish) files in a single document? Particularly in 11ty?

I'm extracting bits of my MPA + View Transitions slide system, and this is the first stand-alone plugin:

https://npmx.dev/package/@slightlyoff/eleventy-plugin-multidoc

https://github.com/slightlyoff/eleventy-plugin-multidoc

@slightlyoff/eleventy-plugin-multidoc - npmx

An 11ty plugin for generating multiple output files from a single source document.