| Personal website | https://ricmac.org |
| Internet history blog | https://cybercultural.com |
| Alt a/c | https://indieweb.social/@classicweb |
What is the agentic web?
I’ve published a new post defining the term and placing it in the broader history of the web:
Read web → Read/write web → Platform web → Agentic web
My core argument is that websites are not disappearing. They still matter, especially because the web is fundamentally a human construct. But their role is expanding, because (like it or not) AI agents will increasingly be used by people to access and interact with websites. https://ricmac.org/2026/05/08/what-is-the-agentic-web/ #AI #AgenticWeb
Excited to announce that the @EUCommission has updated it's follow buttons on the website footer!
What's that first platform there? Could that be #Mastodon?
And where did the link to #X go?
All the posts and comments here on Mastodon calling for this, trust me we read them!
Celebrating 3 years of the 11ty Bundle. @11ty #11ty
https://bobmonsour.com/blog/three-years-in-on-the-11ty-bundle/
@hdv wrote about discussions at the recent Advisory Committee meeting: "Open web vs AI: what can W3C do?"
Suggestions included:
Ensure AI companies are engaged in our standards work and community ...
Take threats to the open web into account in work on WebMCP and the “agentic web”, making it an “open agentic web”, built on open standards and technologies (rather than proprietary) and based on open principles (rather than walled gardens)
Read more at:
https://hidde.blog/web-ai-breakout/
#AI
📣 Brazil and OKFN partner to enable citizens to ‘talk’ to national data
In short: AI-generated responses on the public data portal will be traceable back to the underlying dataset.
👉🏾 Full announcement: https://buff.ly/ZS6CvXe
AX was the new DX. Now it’s becoming the new UX.
In my latest post, I explore how "agent experience" has morphed beyond "developer experience" and become a branch of "user experience". https://ricmac.org/2026/05/05/agent-experience-new-ux/ #AgenticWeb #AI
Oh no, Jeeves has joined me (and tens of thousands of others) on the redundancy pile.
“As IAC continues to sharpen its focus, we have made the decision to discontinue our search business, which includes Ask.com. After 25 years of answering the world’s questions, Ask.com officially closed on May 1, 2026.” https://fossforce.com/2026/05/ask-com-goes-to-the-great-beyond/
5/x I’ll leave the last word to @clarablackink, who beautifully summed it up here:
“We're all a bit overwhelmed and overstimulated but you should still be able to explore things intellectually in good faith. The tools exist to quietly disengage if necessary and everyone has a different threshold.”
Amen to that. #VivaLaFediverse
Hannah Grace
Bob Monsour
World Wide Web Consortium
Open Knowledge Foundation
