- Openness + Collaboration
- Fear Uncertainty Doubt
- W3c Ietf
- The Web is a Uniform path: Uri Uri Uri
- Creative Commons
- The paved cowpaths of Microformats
- Creole languages, L:London, @psd, #tagging
- Cluetrain Manifesto
- Google's all seeing eye
- map.whatfettle.com
- The web is agreement
- The Blogsphere
- WS-Babel (Lunatic Asylum)
- Maelstrom of incompatability
- Mordorsoft pumping out implementations such as ie, asp, iis, active-x
- industry of malware - SPAM, phishing, virus, worms, etc
- Mound of principles
- The clouds of tagging
- The Stadia of socialisation, Grateful Dead playing!
- Moral compass
Good (v) Evil
Progress (v) Regress - Fielding has a posse
- Under construction: Semantic Web Superhighway
- RDF University
- Software patents
- vendor jungle (CANNIBALS)
- DRM Voodoo - a curse on your files and their copies
- Ruins of CORBA
- Lost tribe of UDDI
- Top Level Domains
- DNS weakness
- Silverlight Siren.
- City of walled gardens [Facebook]
- The pit of Deep Linking
- Metacrap by-pass, the alternative is "Services".
- Metadata Gaol
- Taxonomy Caves (BATS!)
- shareware inn (Free Beer) [Free Speech]
- Barn Raising
- Flash, AIR
- Torrent of Lost Data
- *Feeds* RSS Heights 0.91, 1.0, 2.0, Atom
- Love Economy Ahead!
- XML Mansions
Microcontent Camps
JSON, YAML, PHP - Javascript - AJAX Bridge
- TiddlyWiki Steps to the Rescue!
- The Swamp of BPEL
- Middleware heads
- Sold Down the river of Rich User Experiences
- lock-in weir
- Oxymoronic Intellectual Property
- URN slippy slope,
- continuous virtuous feedback loop
- wiki way
- Open Source - PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby, etc Source of Mozilla, Apache Springs.
- The abyss of ignored accessability and internationalisation. CAPTCHA Cyclops, Internationalisation Dragon,
- Precipice of inaccessible Web Sites
- Unicode escape ladder
- Passport fracture patched by OpenID repair
- CardSpace trojan. As cool as Kim is, and he's very cool, and as abstract as it might be, cardspace will suck you into the mad and scary world of WS-*.
- The shallows of "I Agree"
- Cool URIs Don't Change
- Safety
- Robustness Principle
- The Network is Stupid
- Rough Consensus and Running Code
- CPI
- The Web is Alive!
- creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
- Osmosoft 2007
- SOA (it's just a meaningless bollox phrase to keep "Enterprise Architects" in jobs, no?)
- ESB
- SCA
- non-dereferencable names
- tinyurls
The Web is Agreement
A poster put together on behalf of Osmosoft for the BT Open Source Awareness Event to promote discussion on Open Source and standards. It's now available as a clean, high-resolution PDF for print [also here]. [Reddit] [Digg] [thewebisagreement.com]
Comments and faves
Tom Morris, lucamascaro, briansuda, Eat your greens!, and 329 other people added this photo to their favorites.
amyvdh (56 months ago | reply)
Wow! excellent. TimBL made a similar sort ofmap on Web History/Future.
psd (56 months ago | reply)
hah! great minds, er, scratch that - TimBL's is far saner :-)
Tom Morris (56 months ago | reply)
When I get my Ph.D from RDF University, I'm going to go and help free the unfortunate residents of the City of Walled Gardens, and try to help people in the Tower of WS-Babel, lest they start suffering from WS-Void (the condition whereby one feels a deep existential void over the ever-increasing number of WS-* standards). That said, the Cave of Taxonomies is not at all bad.
Since we have a Mordor, one has to wonder exactly what the Ring is.
psd (56 months ago | reply)
"One OS to rule them all, and in the trusted platform, bind them"
Tom Morris (56 months ago | reply)
Oh yes, the Trusted Platform - TCPA, Palladium etc. Good to see that rolled together with a bit of DRM, the BBC are pretty much buying into that line of nonsense.
Kevin Lawver (56 months ago | reply)
That's fantastic! When can I get a print? 8)
dariosalvelli (56 months ago | reply)
Wow, great work!!! ;)
Kevin Lawver (56 months ago | reply)
I yanked the original size and screwed around in photoshop with it (cropped, sharpened... couldn't straighten out the corners). Here's the result. I'd love to get a good blown up version of this for my wall... any industrial giant scanners at BT? 8)
psd (56 months ago | reply)
If I had my time again, I'd use brighter paper. I'll clean up the image and think on a poster print run. Watch this space!
unripegreenbanana (56 months ago | reply)
Great work!!!
Robb1e (56 months ago | reply)
there be dragons...
juhansonin (56 months ago | reply)
Rock on!
jmason (56 months ago | reply)
love it. btw you may be interested to find out that the Ruins Of CORBA are quite appropriately composed, since Iona's Orbix -- one of the first CORBA implementations -- was originally called Dolmen...
nigelpepper (56 months ago | reply)
Awesome. 5 copies of this have gone up in the office. Big love to PSD!
appelquist (56 months ago | reply)
Brilliant!
Farhan Mannan (56 months ago | reply)
Awesome. A typo:
should probably be
Phillie Casablanca (56 months ago | reply)
Wow! 11,533 views! Where is all this traffic coming from???
psd (56 months ago | reply)
Thanks Farhan, I also misspelt "Sphere" and TiddlyWiki isn't clear. Will fixup, scan at super high resolution and post it to flickr tomorrow. Watch this space!
BTW, the traffic seems to becoming from Reddit, which also has some great comments. "The workings of a madman" ;-)
fjglynn (56 months ago | reply)
Way cool. I'm inspired. Thanks!
tantek (56 months ago | reply)
@psd well done. and FWIW, I think your map is a lot more sane than that w3.org one.
euripedies (56 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Bar Doodles, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
blmurch (56 months ago | reply)
This is fantastic!
Kevin Lawver (56 months ago | reply)
A madman? Does that make you The Unadoodler?
Phil Hawksworth (56 months ago | reply)
Paul, you're a legend. This is awesome! I could spend ages studying it. Looking forward to getting a huuuuge version up on the wall in the office.
@Kevin, this was printed at something near A0 and put up on a stand at a BT event today.
Great work PSD!
psd (56 months ago | reply)
Mostly bemused by the negative comments on the metafilter pay-site. Lighten up - it's just a bit of fun - an illustrated mind-map used in a discussion around standardisation and collaboration on the Web. Enjoy, or ignore it. Whatever!
donkeyontheedge (56 months ago | reply)
well, I'm inspired. Fantastic work!
jmason (56 months ago | reply)
Metafilter is always a patronising whingefest. best ignored...
psd (56 months ago | reply)
High quality scan (A2 PDF) now on Archive.org: www.archive.org/details/TheWebIsAgreement
my left's : your right (56 months ago | reply)
that was quick work! up online already.
was nice meeting you today man.
all the best
hank (expocentric)
psd (56 months ago | reply)
Thanks Hank! and thanks to the great guys over at expocentric who liked it so much they did the scan for free! (I made a small donation to the poppy fund)
michele paolino (56 months ago | reply)
thanks, it's very nice!
enda_001 (56 months ago | reply)
I agree!
ComputerHotline (56 months ago | reply)
Hello
www.flickr.com/groups/wikimedia_commons/
and tag it with thiese words :
dessin draw
--
http://creativecommons.org/ (?)
psd (56 months ago | reply)
The poster was used by The Guardian, nice!
Jayel Aheram (56 months ago | reply)
Love it.
Intellectual Property seems to be an absurd idea.
Robb1e (56 months ago | reply)
trackback: blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/10/31/op ensocial_are...
kopretinka (56 months ago | reply)
way cool, I'll show this to my Web Engineering students and maybe give bonus points for insightful analysis 8-)
psd (56 months ago | reply)
Wow! this has now been viewed 40,000 times in less than 60 hours, and faved by 104 people! Andrew summerised our collective amazement well. I plan to roll the notes into a post on my blog, but in the meantime, thanks for the kind messages both here, around on the Web and as email. Much appreciated!
psd (55 months ago | reply)
JP likes the poster: Of Sacred Cows and Barbecues
Pam Rosengren (55 months ago | reply)
Love it! And blogged it here. I found it via a post on the Association of Internet Researchers mailing list - so it is getting around.
I'm not a programmer, so I can't participate in much discussion about Open Source. But I believe that Open Source community platforms will need to be developed, so we can have the option of usig non-proprietary public spaces on the web in which we can share our ideas and creativity.
Meta Nick (55 months ago | reply)
Brilliant Paul. Here's my brief post about it. I agree that the folks at metafilter need to lighten up. Sheesh.
psd (55 months ago | reply)
Video of printing the poster
dgbdgb (55 months ago | reply)
Magic - I love the poster
Beatnic (55 months ago | reply)
Genius!
padacek (54 months ago | reply)
:-) nice and informative, our new academic poster on the wall in the office!
-- KEG
tinythoughts (54 months ago | reply)
it was really great meeting you at le web, seeing the poster, getting a tiddlywiki, and hearing your thoughts as well as those of your team. i'm still amazed. thank you. :-)
tsevis (53 months ago | reply)
Very interesting approach.
Cool illustration too.
psd (49 months ago | reply)
I'll be talking about the poster at Open Tech, 5th July 2008, London.
LoopZilla (47 months ago | reply)
I am listening, honest!
ravenglassrentals (45 months ago | reply)
Horrible hangover from MMORPGs and insidious opensource geek culture imposed on what should be a free system, under the guise of fake "openness".
Um, Tom Morris, no one needs you to "free" them from walled gardens. A genuinely free system will have a range of systems from walled to "open," -- it's not really "open" if you cannot also have closed sections, which are necessary to protect property value and economies, as in Second Life.
Prokofy Neva
WoW and other games will not be moving to opensource any time soon, as they rely on the walled nature of their code to maintain the integrity of the world and its internal economy. And that's ok.
The nasty implications of saying "intellectual property" is an oxymoron lets us know of the extremist copyleftism at work here.
Tag clouds? It's an infestation. Sprinkle some vinegar around, maybe the damn thing will go away by morning.