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The guy who created the world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee, has (finally) started a blog on an MIT website. He writes...
In 1989 one of the main objectives of the WWW was to be a space for sharing information. It seemed evident that it should be a space in which anyone could be creative, to which anyone could contribute. The first browser was actually a browser/editor, which allowed one to edit any page, and save it back to the web if one had access rights.
Strangely enough, the web took off very much as a publishing medium, in which people edited offline. Bizarrely, they were prepared to edit the funny angle brackets of HTML source, and didn't demand a what you see is what you get editor. WWW was soon full of lots of interesting stuff, but not a space for communal design, for discourse through communal authorship.
Now in 2005, we have blogs and wikis, and the fact that they are so popular makes me feel I wasn't crazy to think people needed a creative space.
It comes as no surprise that this particular blog is getting lots of press from Day One.
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Semanitc Web
Tim Berners-Lee has a project called "the Semantic Web", which is about the exchange of data on the web.
Somewhat like tagging, but it is not people-driven, and is not about an element of subjectiveness. Good small article in Newsweek' special edition "The Knowledge Revolution". Partially available at Keepmedia
Major work in tagging, classifying and crossreferencing will help small businesses in developing countries because it will facilitate making information accessible. Please see Netsquared Conference wishlist idea on multilingual cross-referencing
CyberInstitute .... helping small business Globally
Using the same technology as NetSquared & CivicSpace...
A bit of trivia... his blog runs on the Drupal content management system, the same technology behind the NetSquared website, CivicSpace and the technology we integrate tightly with in CiviCRM.