Update: For a simpler formulation of the ideas in this essay, see Doug Belshaw’s Working openly on the web: a manifesto. Back in 2000, the patterns, principles, and best practices for building web information systems were mostly anecdotal and folkloric. Roy Fielding’s dissertation on the web’s...
Last week someone in the IndieWeb chat asked about what “web” thinking was. I’ve always understood the broader idea generally, but never seen it physically laid out. Jon does a pretty solid job of putting it down into words here.