Tangled Web

From my earliest days of work, I was warned about an affliction that might threaten my career.

This affliction was known as the hole in the CV or the gap in the résumé.

Anyone who contracted this dread…

Martin Feld believes in RSS, the protocol for getting podcasts out there, so much that he used the letters RSS to name his Really Specific Stories podcast.

Why? Because RSS is open. No one controls it…

Tarek Madany Mamlouk is all about tech content.

From hour-long multi-host podcasts through snappy YouTube explainers to TikToks, he has it all covered.

What are the different demands of each format? Ho…

Alexandra Arens is host of the Venly Expert Talks podcast, where she releases weekly conversations about all things web3.

I wanted to talk to Alexandra as part of my deep dive into tech podcasting, to…

I’ve reached a pivot point with Tangled Web.

I don’t quite know where I’m going to be taking it from here.

Rather than decide in isolation, I thought I’d let you know what I’m thinking.

If you have any …

Facebook is dead.

I’m aware that this is a bold statement, seeing as 3½ billion people are on Facebook.

That’s a sizeable user base for a dead tech giant.

How do I know that Facebook is dead?

Here’s the …

Why does nothing work on the web?

Well, you’ve heard of a single point of failure, right? It’s when just one thing going wrong can cause everything to fail.

That is not the problem with the web.

It’s wa…

One of the reasons I launched Tangled Web was to talk about the Open Web Mind.

It’s my most ambitious project.

Put as simply as possible, the Open Web Mind is a protocol for shared human intelligence.

H…

A friend asked me: What is Bitcoin?

I think she was expecting a long answer. Every explanation of Bitcoin I’ve ever heard has gone deep into cryptography, blockchain, mining and Satoshi Nakamoto, the …

“Why do there have to be so many?“ a friend asked me recently.

All she wanted to do was save an image (simple, right?) but she faced a bewildering array of possible file formats: .png, .jpg, .gif, .ti…

When you start work on an ambitious project, you’re forced to make many foundational decisions.

It’s hard to know the consequences of each and every one of those decisions. Will this decision help the…

Welcome to Tangled Web.

I’m Mark Jeffery, and this is a quick message to let you know that I’m switching to an every-other-week schedule for Tangled Web over the summer.

I have long list of tech topics…

Everyone agrees that we need to do something about Facebook, Google, Apple and Twitter.

Well, almost everyone. As I said in Episode #013, Everyone wants to fix Facebook (listen or watch), I’d prefer w…

When I quit my job to go all in on my own projects, I had to make a decision.

I had so many ideas.

Should I pursue several of these ideas at the same time? That way, I’d increase the odds that one of t…

There are a lot of numbers on the web.

Table after table gives you column after column and row after row of numbers.

If only there were a way to visualize all those values.

Here’s how the Open Web Mind …

The defining characteristic of our times is this: everyone wants to tell everyone else what to do.

Especially when it comes to Facebook.

Twitter, too. And TikTok. But mostly Facebook.

Everyone want to f…

Doc Williams’ YouTube channels – Doc Williams and Maker Tech Tools – cover a wide range of just the kind of tech topics that interest me.

I especially wanted to talk to him when I saw that he’d create…

Packy McCormick takes a simple approach to podcasting.

On most episodes of his Not Boring podcast, about web3 and startup strategy, he simply reads his latest newsletter.

This works for me as a listene…

The Open Web Mind is my most ambitious project.

It’s what I work on when I’m not writing articles or recording podcasts.

It’s so ambitious that it’s difficult to know where to start when talking about …

How much time do we lose when important emails end up in our spam folders? How many opportunities do we miss out on?

We tend not to think about it, because we tend to think that there’s nothing we can…