Thursday 3 July 2008

The Morris Law of Standards

I read this at Tom Morris‘ site and had to quote here:

“However fucked up and crazy something is, someone, somewhere in a standards body is writing a parser, schema or proposal for it.”

Some things are true because they’re funny. But most funny things are just quite simply true.

Filed under:   community, creativity, humor, innovation, society, software, standards, w3c, web design and development
Posted by:   Molly | 06:09 | Comments (13)

13 Responses to “The Morris Law of Standards”

1. thacker says:

   Thursday 3 July 2008 at 13:56

   This process reminds me of the young girl who is sitting at her dad’s computer and banging away on the keyboard. Her dad asks her what she is doing. She replies that she is writing a story. Her dad asks, ‘What is the story about?’ The daughter says, ‘I don’t know. I can’t read.’
2. karl dubost, w3c says:

   Thursday 3 July 2008 at 17:37

   I gave a bit more context about Incubator Activity in the comments of his blog post.
3. thacker says:

   Friday 4 July 2008 at 06:16

   Karl–

   I don’t think any reasonable person can fault the benefits of incubators for pure research particularly for low profile/capitalized firms and projects.

   The last three threads point out, I believe, a too often tendency and desire of people to bring to the Web, socially, things that are difficult, if not impossible, to accomplish within a single dimensional medium. The ‘Social’ Web is in need of some non-technical guidance, I believe.
4. Alan Gresley says:

   Friday 4 July 2008 at 08:07

   I see the truth behind all this. Some crackpot in the W3C wants to established of a new web language (new world order) for the web.

   The paradoxes of the open web has been revealed. My dream is a one open interoperable web. A web for all humanity and one that doesn’t serve big business or the new world order.

   I do recommend watching the movie by Alex Jone’s title EndGame.

   Molly, please join the revolution. The truth is rising.

   http://truth-terror.org/
5. Tom Morris says:

   Friday 4 July 2008 at 12:10

   Wow. CWL is silly, but it’s not nearly on the order of Alex Jones style conspiracy theories. The recipe to silliness is reality, not more silliness.
6. website design says:

   Sunday 6 July 2008 at 19:57

   Interesting perspective on standard bodies and processes.
7. komik says:

   Saturday 2 August 2008 at 02:31

   thanks
8. tv izle says:

   Tuesday 28 October 2008 at 13:21

   thanks
9. Yerel Seçimler says:

   Monday 1 December 2008 at 06:54

   great post