Tim Berners-Lee on Blogging And The Web 226
neiljt writes "The BBC2 is to air an interview by Marc Lawson with Tim Berners-Lee this evening, where TBL offers his thoughts on the Read/Write web. A transcript of the interview is available from BBC News." From the article: "I feel that we need to individually work on putting good things on [the web], finding ways to protect ourselves from accidentally finding the bad stuff, and that at the end of the day, a lot of the problems of bad information out there, things that you don't like, are problems with humanity.
This is humanity which is communicating over the web, just as it's communicating over so many other different media. I think it's a more complicated question we have to; first of all, make it a universal medium, and secondly we have to work to make sure that that it supports the sort of society that we want to build on top of it. "
What Question would you have asked Sir TBL? (Score:2, Interesting)
What the fuck is this? (Score:2, Interesting)
I think it's a more complicated question we have to; first of all, make it a universal medium, and secondly we have to work to make sure that that it supports the sort of society that we want to build on top of it.
We already have a medium...it's called the Internet...and every standard that runs over it, be it HTTP, FTP, IRC, etc.
Who the hell is this "we" shit? Who is to determine what gets built on it? Him? The enligtened Philosopher-Kings of ancient times?
I hate to say it, but Humanity has taken over, and it ain't going back to the good ol' days of Universities, Researchers, and the Military. Get over it.
the Read/Write web? (Score:2, Interesting)
"It's very hard to have the Read part of the Read/Write web without the Write part."
What in the heck is the Read/Write Web?
The junk is hard to avoid (Score:3, Interesting)
Excuse me? (Score:3, Interesting)
What kind of 'bad stuff' is he talking about? Child porn? Regular porn? Photos of mangled dead bodies? Opposing political views? Goatse?
Be specific.
There is a difference... (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:What Question would you have asked Sir TBL? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:What the fuck is this? (Score:3, Interesting)
Anyway, I think TBL was saying that just like when a group of people get together and try to create a government which will support their ideals, the population of the internet needs to come together to ensure that the internet supports their ideals.
Re:What Question would you have asked Sir TBL? (Score:3, Interesting)
Mark Lawson seems to have been desperate to elicit some response along the lines of
I could almost start formulating consipiracy theories about laying groundwork for increased censorship, except that, the tenor of the questions is nothing unusual for a newsnight interview.Respect is due to Sir Tim for keeping his head and not rising to the bait.
Still, the political nature of the questions can be seen as reflecting the increasingly politicised nature of the web. I wonder if he's in for more of this sort of flack in the future.
Re:Lame (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:I really don't like the words "blog" and "blogg (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:What Question would you have asked Sir TBL? (Score:5, Interesting)
You must reflect though on the law of unintended consequences because it wasn't remotely ever your intention when you started on this that so much of the web would be given over to sexual exhibitionists masturbating in their bedrooms with webcams. Do you ever have bad moments about that?
Now imagine someone would ask Graham Bell:
You must reflect though on the law of unintended consequences because it wasn't remotely ever your intention when you started on this that so much of the phone system would be given over to sexual exhibitionists masturbating in their bedrooms with phone sex. Do you ever have bad moments about that?
Wouldn't that just sound silly to everyone?
Re:The road to sollipsism? (Score:2, Interesting)