- Artwork by Eli Jorgensen
Jeremy Keith reveals how the web is neither good or bad, nor neutral, but an amplifier. He inspires us to not let the future be just something that happens to us, but rather something we make with the small things we do today. He encourages us to build software ethically with our users’ psychological vulnerabilities in mind. He motivates us to not build on rented land, but to publish using the superpower of our own URLs. He also shows us how looking to the past is just as important as looking to the future.
Jeremy Keith lives in Brighton, England where he makes websites with the splendid design agency Clearleft. You may know him from such books as DOM Scripting, Bulletproof Ajax, HTML5 For Web Designers, and most recently Resilient Web Design. He curated the dConstruct conference for a number of years as well as Brighton SF, and he organised the world’s first Science Hack Day. He also made the website Huffduffer to allow people to make podcasts of found sounds—it’s like Instapaper for audio files. Hailing from Erin’s green shores, Jeremy maintains his link to Irish traditional music running the community site The Session. He also indulges a darker side of his bouzouki-playing in the band Salter Cane. Jeremy spends most of his time goofing off on the internet, documenting his time-wasting on adactio.com, where he has been writing for over fifteen years. A photograph he took appears in the film Iron Man.
- Iron Man Photo Story (4:43)
- On Net Neutrality (13:31)
- What’s “Adactio”? (20:44)
- Is the Internet Good or Evil? (24:41)
- Hippocratic Oath for Software Designers (35:51)
- Resilient Web Design (49:06)
- Why do you Love the Web so Much? (54:26)
- The Power and Generosity of the Community (63:05)
- What Comes Next? (71:34)
- Listener Question? (73:44)
- Last Words to the Builders of the Web (74:18)
- Contact Info (80:15)
