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About Marcus J. Gilroy-Ware

Marcus Gilroy-Ware is Director of VSC Creative Ltd., founder and lead developer of Smartest – an open source publishing platform for design-sensitive projects, and visiting lecturer in Online Journalism at City University in London. He is currently conducting research on the implications of technology and the network for the future of public creativity.

Articles by Marcus J. Gilroy-Ware

Apple iPad - The content revolution that wasn't

Marcus J. Gilroy-Ware, 29 January 2010

The iPad could have played a major part in the shift towards a more democratised, read-write culture. But it hasn’t happened: why not?

Thursday 29th September

Why wiki?

Marcus J. Gilroy-Ware, 29 September 2005

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.

Over the last six years, something incredible has happened. People all around the world who have no other connection to one other have come together to begin building a giant, free encyclopaedia.

Thursday 6th January

The web's not dead

Marcus J. Gilroy-Ware, 6 January 2005

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.