Love it. I suppose that is what was bothering me about the Web 2.0 blog from Richard MacManus called Read/Write Web. 'Write' is a huge shift in thinking but permission to 'Execute' globally is the power people are seeking. I like your blog, Richard, but the name doesn't quite work for me. I see a few unclaimed domains that might help you, though. Of course, they will probably be bought and developed into silly businesses that claim to offer Web 2.0 solutions.
To clarify the reference, chmod is a command that alters the access permissions of a file or folder in unix. The 777 reference is the command parameter that makes a file or folder readable, writable and executable by everyone in the world. So, "chmod 777 web" means that the whole Internet should be altered in a way that everyone can read everything on the web, edit everything on the web and execute all applications on the web.
Firstly, thanks for your comments.
Now, re the name of my blog Read/Write Web. I started this blog back in April 2003, well before the term 'Web 2.0' was coined. At the time my main inspiration was Dave Winer's Two-Way Web - and stretching further back Tim Berners-Lee's vision for a truly read-write browser (which unfortunately none of Mosaic, Netscape or Microsoft implemented).
My very first blog post from April 2003 outlines why I chose the name read/write web:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/001657.php
At the time I did kind of reference Chmod (see extract below), but of course back in early 2003 how was I to know that APIs and the executible Web would be where we're at in 2005 ;-) Here's what I wrote back in April 2003 and my feelings haven't changed on this:
"I like the read/write metaphor for a couple of reasons. Firstly I like to read books and I enjoy the art of writing. The other reason is that read/write as applied to the computer industry tradionally means "capable of being displayed (read) and modified (written to)". For example a floppy disk drive. So the term "read/write" cuts across both computing and journalism/literature."
regards,
Richard