James Governor grumbled at
me about repeatedly crediting
Hal
Stern for the “Web 2.0 = Writeable Web” meme, specifically pointing out
Read/Write Web by Rich McManus
(which is excellent). He’s got a point, but if we’re going to start down that
road, we’ll end up with
Tim Berners-Lee, who has
repeatedly made it clear that
he always thought of the Web as a place to write, not just read. And if we’re
going to talk about practice not theory, you’d end up looking at
Dave Winer, who pushed RSS in
everyone’s face and, more important, proved that a fast-writing ornery geek
could gather an audience and wield influence by, you know, doing it.
And as a geek myself, I’ve always liked James Snell’s
chmod 777 web. Until this minute, I’d thought Hal was the first
to nail the 2.0 connection; but now I think that James
got there first (May
vs. October 2005).
