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BBC News Online has a transcript of a TV interview with Sir Tim Berners-Lee on the read/write web. He makes some sensible and insightful comments, but has to spend a lot of time fending off guilt-trip questions from the interviewer about some of the awful things people do on the Web.
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I'll check this out. My first reaction is knee-jerk: people do awful things everywhere, and 'awful' covers a lot of ground.
Posted by: SB | August 10, 2005 at 11:03 AM