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An interesting article, despite the eagerness of the interviewer to invoke some sort of guilt for the abuses of the web. Sir Tim fends these attempts off nicely and underlines what the web really should be used for, ie communicating over a distributed network. Interesting too that he originally intended the web to be a read/write medium that closely resembles blogging. I wonder why blogging technology has taken so long to catch on? Is it an example of the technology being far in advance of social need, and that now the “information generation” has now grown up we can create and assimilate more immediacy in our awareness of the situations around us, so that we are able to respond to and pass comment on those situations?