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Marcus Gilroy-Ware is founder and director of Smartest, an open-source web publishing framework aimed at projects and organisations where creative vision and expression are mission critical aspects of business. Before that, he worked freelance, and for Visudo. Marcus graduated from Hampshire College in the USA in 2005, having studied linguistics and cognitive science.

Recent articles

Marcus J Gilroy-Ware is a proud citizen of Wikipedia. As openDemocracy continues its investigation into the power of peers, he describes what it is that motivates him and thousands of Wikipedians like him to contribute to the online peer-edited encyclopaedia.

Is the world wide web evolving, dying or merely pining for the fjords? A young web developer takes issue with Bill Thompson’s call to dump the web. Eavesdrop on the techies slugging it out over HTML, distributed processing, < IMG > tags and illiterate waiters. The future of your desktop is at stake.