An interesting take on the problem of news (Ht- Martin Belam ) News consumers are mainly interested in news coverage, not content. Coverage is a service that promises to keep its users "in the loop" about what is relevant to them and their peer groups. It is delivered by selecting content on readers' behalf – i.e. through aggregation and curation – and while it relies on content...
Way back in 2001, the founder of the Web, Tim Berners-Lee published his vision of the future Web. (In this book he states that the Web is designed for being read by humans and not for being understood by machines.
What do you do after Inventing the Web? That's not a question most of us have to face, but it is for Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Heading up the World Wide Web Consortium to oversee the Web's development was a natural move, but valuable as its work has been, there's no denying that it has been sidelined somewhat by the rather more vigorous commercial Web activity that's taken place over the last decade.
Tom Young, Computing , Thursday 26 November 2009 at 09:42:00 Making Ordnance Survey information available for all to use online will provide a major boost to the quality of public services – and cut costs The government’s decision to publish Ordnance Survey mapping information in a free and re-usable form online is a major victory for democracy campaigners. The move is likely to result...
The semantic web folks, including Sir Tim Berners-Lee, have been saying for years that the Internet could become significantly more compelling by cooking more intelligence into the way things link around the network. The movement is getting some legs to it these days, but the solution doesn’t look quite like what the visionaries expected [...]
Political commentator Michael White wonders whether the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war, which opens today, will yield any "smoking gun" or will satisfy those who accuse previous official investigations of whitewash. Kate Connolly reports on the case of a Belgian man who was thought to have been in a coma for 23 years before neurologists discovered his brain was functioning almost normally....
Da Vinci and Einstein? They're old news – the future is the present Poll: Vote for your greatest living genius As Marc Abrahams writes today (24 November) in EducationGuardian, psychologists spend an enormous amount of energy arguing about what genius is, and where it comes from. That said, anyone would be hard pushed to argue that Leonardo da Vinci, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein were not...
Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the Web, showed up at the first day of the UN-backed Internet Governance Forum meeting in Egypt to announce the creation of the "World Wide Web Foundation." ... The leadership of the ITU and Touré...
It's good news that the government is considering how to make mapping data freely available under public sector information regulations ( A new landscape unfolds , Technology, 17 November). But care must be taken to make sure that the only data which is made available is data which is "owned" by government as a necessary monopoly – electoral boundaries, areas of special scientific...
Sir Tim Berners-Lee is in Kenya: “Credited with inventing the World Wide Web(WWW), Sir Tim Berners- Lee is in town and was today at the Strathmore University for an Interactive IT education session for IT professionals, students and innovators.”
I would be unforgivably remiss if I failed to thank the folks who emailed me during the last few months, enquiring with concern about my whereabouts. I'm sorry I didn't answer all of you, but that's how badly in the dumps I was. But enough of that! Since we're all about the slashes today, I do have to admit I larffed quite a bit when I read a few weeks ago that Tim Berners-Lee admitted in an interview...
The UK Government has announced that Ordnance Survey map data will be freely available online to everybody from 2010. The objective is to join the dots between what, when and in this case where and allow people to automatically link and interpret public statistics about crime, health and education by postcode, local authority or electoral boundary. This will be achieved by allowing developers to use...
Introduction Semantic web as defined by the creator of the web Tim Berners-Lee is "a web of data, in some ways like a global database" (Berners-Lee, 1998). To elaborate further Mr. Berners-Lee explains in an interview held by IDG Now, data is expressed on computers as associated files with applications that deal specifically with information, an example would be, data in calendars, bank systems,...
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