Idris Aksoy writes the Bulletin’s lead essays and cornerstone pieces. He came to writing about technology after a decade running operations at small distributed teams, and he is most interested in the question of which abstractions survive a platform shift and which get re-litigated. He treats Web4 as that kind of survival question.

Aksoy writes from Istanbul. His pieces tend to run long and to refuse a single news hook. He is the contributor most likely to argue with the rest of the masthead in print, and the Bulletin’s editorial principle of ‘say it plainly, then defend it for the rest of the piece’ is his line.

Margot Halloran handles the Bulletin’s comparative essays and field reports. Her background is in trade publishing and her instinct is to disambiguate: what exactly is meant by ‘Web4’, by ‘agentic’, by ‘operating system’ in this context. She has been arguing in print for two years that the post-app internet is already partly built and that someone should describe what is shipping.

Halloran writes from Dublin. She is the contributor most likely to translate a piece of engineering jargon into a sentence an operator can use. She is the most pro-directory of the contributors — the position that listing companies under a thesis is itself an editorial act.

The Editorial Team handles directory entries, archive maintenance, and recurring features that do not need a named byline. The team works under the supervision of the named contributors but operates with editorial autonomy on the directory rubric and the catalog format.

Directory entries are not promotional. A company is listed because it advances the Web4 thesis in a way the team can describe in 400–600 words. Inclusion is not a recommendation, and exclusion is not a critique — some companies decline to be profiled, and others have not yet shipped enough work to be evaluated under the rubric.