Comments on: Sir Tim Berners-Lee gives a rare interview http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/04/13/sir-tim-berners-lee-gives-a-rare-interview/ It is and we do. Musing, enthusing, libraries, emerging technologies, balancing, being mum. Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:26:38 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: pollyalida http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/04/13/sir-tim-berners-lee-gives-a-rare-interview/comment-page-1/#comment-37322 pollyalida Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:26:30 +0000 http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/04/13/sir-tim-berners-lee-gives-a-rare-interview/#comment-37322 What a painful & embarrassing attempt by the reporter to be savvy and clever. Ouch. Berners-Lee's courtesy, intellect and classiness came through loud and clear though. Some years ago I saw him speak at a conference in NYC. What I remember so clearly was his soft-spoken manner and his sense of humor, particularly when he apologized for "all that http stuff, you were never meant to see all that" - that was a lovely, funny moment. The Telegraph reporter will be forgotten, Berners-Lee will not. What a painful & embarrassing attempt by the reporter to be savvy and clever. Ouch. Berners-Lee’s courtesy, intellect and classiness came through loud and clear though. Some years ago I saw him speak at a conference in NYC. What I remember so clearly was his soft-spoken manner and his sense of humor, particularly when he apologized for “all that http stuff, you were never meant to see all that” – that was a lovely, funny moment. The Telegraph reporter will be forgotten, Berners-Lee will not.

]]> By: Kay Good http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/04/13/sir-tim-berners-lee-gives-a-rare-interview/comment-page-1/#comment-36821 Kay Good Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:14:27 +0000 http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/04/13/sir-tim-berners-lee-gives-a-rare-interview/#comment-36821 This perspective makes the hair on the back of my neck rise! Just this weekend on a trip down Interstate 70 from Kansas to Missouri USA I saw a huge billboard that said, "Take Back the Internet! Keep our children SAFE!" When will people that 1. Parents need to be responsible for their children. 2. The Internet does not belong to anyone so how can you take it back? 3. Life is not FAIR. Sorry, but this attitude always gets me down. Should we take back magazines, because some of them are "dirty" ones? Should we not let children learn to swim or drive as they could drown or crash? With everything new and good, there is always a price. Teaching children about the dangers of the Internet is just as important as teaching them how to drive on ice. The Internet is making the world smaller by bringing people and ideas together - just like this blog! We can express our ideas, learn from others, and keep in touch. Thanks for listening! This perspective makes the hair on the back of my neck rise! Just this weekend on a trip down Interstate 70 from Kansas to Missouri USA I saw a huge billboard that said, “Take Back the Internet! Keep our children SAFE!” When will people that 1. Parents need to be responsible for their children. 2. The Internet does not belong to anyone so how can you take it back? 3. Life is not FAIR.
Sorry, but this attitude always gets me down. Should we take back magazines, because some of them are “dirty” ones? Should we not let children learn to swim or drive as they could drown or crash? With everything new and good, there is always a price. Teaching children about the dangers of the Internet is just as important as teaching them how to drive on ice. The Internet is making the world smaller by bringing people and ideas together – just like this blog! We can express our ideas, learn from others, and keep in touch.
Thanks for listening!

]]> By: Gary Barber http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/04/13/sir-tim-berners-lee-gives-a-rare-interview/comment-page-1/#comment-36682 Gary Barber Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:07:53 +0000 http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/04/13/sir-tim-berners-lee-gives-a-rare-interview/#comment-36682 Yeap another padded, very bad hack job. More syndicated clap trap. Lets paint Tim Berners-Lee as the weirdo computer nerd. The journo responsible for the article works for the British Sunday Telegraph. The article really just shows how much the journo failed to connect with him at all. Telegraph - Next time send someone that understands the topic and can research, not a gossip column hack. In fact I get the impression for all Tim Berners-Lee politeness the journo was in fact pissing him off with his stupid questions. Seems to be all of say five minutes of an interview if that. Lots in third person which means that something went wrong dramatically. Very bad article. Yeap another padded, very bad hack job. More syndicated clap trap. Lets paint Tim Berners-Lee as the weirdo computer nerd. The journo responsible for the article works for the British Sunday Telegraph.

The article really just shows how much the journo failed to connect with him at all. Telegraph – Next time send someone that understands the topic and can research, not a gossip column hack.

In fact I get the impression for all Tim Berners-Lee politeness the journo was in fact pissing him off with his stupid questions. Seems to be all of say five minutes of an interview if that. Lots in third person which means that something went wrong dramatically. Very bad article.

]]> By: Myles Eftos http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/04/13/sir-tim-berners-lee-gives-a-rare-interview/comment-page-1/#comment-36679 Myles Eftos Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:25:10 +0000 http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/04/13/sir-tim-berners-lee-gives-a-rare-interview/#comment-36679 *Slow clap* Journalists do it again. I could only bring myself to read the first couple of pages of the article - it was about the point that the journalist brought up the copy-cat killer thing that I closed the paper. I wonder what the angle was? If they were trying to give the regular public an insight in to Sir Berners-Lee, they failed - they jut made him look weird. There was no actual content in the article... *Slow clap* Journalists do it again. I could only bring myself to read the first couple of pages of the article – it was about the point that the journalist brought up the copy-cat killer thing that I closed the paper.

I wonder what the angle was? If they were trying to give the regular public an insight in to Sir Berners-Lee, they failed – they jut made him look weird. There was no actual content in the article…

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