Phil Archer

The W3C is calling for speakers for the W3C Workshop on Smart Voice Agents, an online conference from February 25 to 27, 2026.

They’re looking for contributions on voice interaction, smart devices, and related standards.

Read the full details at: w3.org/2025/10/smartagents-workshop

It was the obvious gap in my set of first editions. My wife kindly bought it for my 50th birthday.

For some reason, Anti-Ice remains on my TBR pile, despite having read almost everything else on these shelves. Will be interested to hear what you think of it.

I'm hoping he's still alive when the ballroom is demolished but hope is slim as I'm sure he'll die in office, sometime in the 2030s.

I've been haunting the BB website hoping to order one of these but it's not listed anywhere. Have they all been snapped up?

Data Strategist W3C has an open full-time position for a Data Strategist, responsible for leading our standardization work around data on the web, to continue our efforts to represent, discover, query, and exchange d...

My old job at W3C is up for grabs! www.w3.org/careers/data...

RFK Jr must be very confused that someone who has received his annual flu and COVID-19 boosters can have such a clean bill of health.

Ohhh hellllow, I see a fellow @nickabbot.bsky.social listener?

Me want!

I'd say it's head and shoulders above most SF books I've read in recent years.

I find it almost quaint that you have such faith in the institutions of the US. IMO, it's a given that, if he's still alive, the tangerine toddler will still be in the Whitehouse way beyond noon on 20 Jan 2029. Can you give me some hope that I'm wrong, please. (Phil from Ipswich)

‘A tool in the fight against Amazon’: independent bookshops to begin selling ebooks A new platform will be an alternative to Kindle, and bookshops will earn 100% of the profit from sales

Independent bookshops will earn 100% of the profit from sales, and ebooks will be priced the same as they are on Amazon.

I admit I'd have to dip into it again to remember it. I can't always immediately recall a story from a title. But I don't recall not liking any of Adam R's books or Alastair R's.

Almost snap!

Ooh, I see a new episode of www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand... coming from this...

YouTube video by GS1 Why QR Codes powered by GS1 are more than a marketing tool

Another video from me about QR Codes with GS1 Digital Link and why treating them like just another marketing QR Code will lead to problems or failure youtu.be/2VFsVfYd6Z0

Tesco has been nominated for the Best Accessibility award at the Zeroheight Design System Awards for its Digital Design System, developed with TetraLogical's accessibility specialists.

Read more and cast your vote at: awards.zeroheight.com/voting/a11y-...

YouTube video by LBC Lewis Goodall vs Iain Dale: Twitter in meltdown over inheritance tax idea

I agree with every word @lewisgoodall.com says in this youtu.be/Z9VITp0x5lM although my children have asked me to return all those "Best Dad ever" fathers day cards.

An orange background with the TetraLogical logo and watermark with the title Accessibility and the agentic web. There is a headshot of Léonie in a black polo neck, purple hair in a bob, with a cup of tea in a saucer in front of her smiling

Retail sites often fail blind shoppers. Could agentic AI fill the gap?

Tools like Innosearch can find products, describe images, and add items to your basket.

@tink.uk explores further: tetralogical.com/blog/2025/08...

#Accessibility #AI #AgenticWeb #InclusiveDesign #UX #DigitalInclusion

Yes. I linked it from a paper I've drafted for the age-restricted content workshop, see philarcher.org/diary/2025/w.... I'll submit that as is before the deadline unless I have feedback to the contrary. I almost certainly can't go to the workshop, which is a pain.

I did a double take when I heard that too. Yesterday. Or was it earlier today. Or maybe I'll hear it again tomorrow? Cue @nickabbot.bsky.social's blubblubblabberblabber sfx

Lots of open positions at GS1 Global Office right now at all levels. Brussels, New Jersey, hybrid, remote... are any of these you or someone you know? www.gs1.org/about/careers

Bother. Looks like I missed it.

The cover of a book called Food Person by an author called Adam Roberts

This is the multiverse where my semi-automatic purchases of books by Adam Roberts as they're published crosses the manifold. I wonder whether *this* Adam Roberts' readers enjoy @adamroberts.bsky.social's work. #mustPayMoreAttentionToDetail

As a Brit, I can only concur with this obvious truth.

Will be v interested to catch up with you soon. There are several GS1 folks there as we try and piece together evidence for how to proceed. I'm seeing strong cause for a f2f meetup. Will be in touch.

8 years at GS1 I was very obviously upset to leave W3C. 8 years on, I'm happy about the switch

A minor anniversary of absolutely no significance to anyone but I've now been at GS1 longer than any other job I've done - and that seemed worth a mention philarcher.org/diary/2025/8...

Caroline Haslett - Wikipedia

It was designed by Caroline Haslett en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolin... (which I admit I only know through Hannah Fry's championing of her). It's clunky and a pain to carry around with you but yes, it's the safest one there is.

Nailing your political colours to your business is bad business If you're selling something, my advice is: keep your politics to yourself

I was looking forward to reading a Neal Asher novel for the first time. Having read the frontispiece, I need to wash my hands, literally and figuratively philarcher.org/diary/2025/p...

Swiss glacier collapse: How the village of Blatten was wiped off the map - BBC News Nine million cubic metres of rock and ice came crashing down on Blatten after a landslide.

This content of this article is both fascinating (mountain collapses!) and v worrying at a time when far right politics is urging ever more fossil fuel use. It's also *brilliant* Web design, made for scrolling on your phone www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...