Sir Tim Berners-Lee on the read/write web

[Steve]

When Berners-Lee talks about the web, people listen. In a recent Newsnight interview with the web's creator, Mark Lawson asked Berners-Lee about blogging and a rewriteable web.

For years I had been trying to address the fact that the web for most people wasn't a creative space; there were other editors, but editing web pages became difficult and complicated for people. What happened with blogs and with wikis, these editable web spaces, was that they became much more simple.

When you write a blog, you don't write complicated hypertext, you just write text, so I'm very, very happy to see that now it's gone in the direction of becoming more of a creative medium.

Some interesting issues are covered in the interview. Read it on the BBC News website.

[Dougal]

the interviewer seemed to be trying to blame TBL on the problems the internet faces.

But the original idea of TBL to make the internet spread ideas and communicate is working 100%, but people of different moral opinions/belief/county etc... can all be united or divided dependant on where you look.

I'm unhappy with the interviewer.,