Comments on: Tim Berners-Lee at NESTA on the Future of the Web

By: Future of The Web - Part II - The Future | WOWNDADI

Future of The Web - Part II - The Future | WOWNDADI — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:20:08 +0000

[...] think Lloyd Davis’ post “Tim Berners-Lee at NESTA on the Future of the Web” says the unsaid well. Sir Tim’s talk was about 20 minutes. I don’t think anyone [...]

By: James Cherkoff

James Cherkoff — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:25:17 +0000

For god’s sake man, can you just say what you mean!

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My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 9th through July 10th » the billblog — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:00:51 +0000

[...] Tim Berners-Lee at NESTA on the Future of the Web « Perfect Path – Excellent critique from Lloyd. [...]

By: Tim Berners-Lee on the Future of the Web (and other people muddying the waters) - jon bounds

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:49:37 +0000

[...] between the intended audience (not sure that was us geeks) and the super-brain of TBL, but as others have said time with TBL was limited and [...]

By: At one time it was possible to “shutdown the Internet” | ThomasNicholson.com

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:43:24 +0000

[...] Tim Berners-Lee at NESTA on the Future of the Web [...]

By: charlie gower

charlie gower — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:00:42 +0000

ooooh sounds messy. liking the rage Lloyd. more please.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:56:21 +0000

For what it’s worth, there was no audio on the first thirty minutes or so of the webcast (sounded like something not plugged in right). So being there in person had its benefits.

However, as others have observed, the way to get questions asked was via Twitter.

By: Julia Gilbert

Julia Gilbert — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:19:39 +0000

Didn’t realise you were there too or would have looked out for you
Surprised we didn’t see you as the main room as it was pretty tiny, but from your photo looks like you were the other side.

Never been to NESTA before. I had expected a huge lecture-theatre setup given the obvious demand for places and obviously expected to hear just Tim and not a panel.

Still, glad I went. Loved the gunk in the plughole analogy. Lots of goosebumpy hairs-standing-on-end moments! We live in exciting times.

Not sure I’ll bother to go to any other events there though, especially if they will be webcasted.

By: James Stewart

James Stewart — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:24:42 +0000

This makes me rather glad I didn’t make it in the end… I’d been expecting to hear TimBL expand on the ideas he’d not been given space for at Innovation Edge and had no idea it was going to be a panel discussion.

I sympathise somewhat with NESTA being caught between people like us who are deeply entrenched in the social web and want to be exposed to a variety of perspectives, and those who are still looking for some sanctioned authority figure who will tell them what they need to know about what’s going on. But it does seem as if they play a little too much to the latter crowd and introduce irony into their event names as a result…