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I found myself cringing watching this talk. Berners-Lee seemed so nervous, stressed out. Certainly under strain, for whatever reason. I hope he is/was okay, you

by tobych 18y ago

I found myself cringing watching this talk. Berners-Lee seemed so nervous, stressed out. Certainly under strain, for whatever reason. I hope he is/was okay, you know, generally, and that it was just that big red timer and the VIPs in the audience, or something equally obvious. I watched the video a couple of days after Bill Gates' talk about malaria, and sure, maybe linked data may end up saving the world'n'all, but I did cringe when he invited the audience to shout "Raw Data Now!". Especially when compared to Gates' letting mosquitoes out into the audience, it just seemed silly. Mmm. Now I'm sounding all holier-than-thou, huh.

whatusername 18y ago
agreed. I haven't seen TBL do many(any) speeches before to compare - but he didn't seem comfortable at all. I support the idea (actually - it made me think a lot about Wolfram's alpha -- it seems to be a compiled version of what Tim is after) - but I thought the pitch for it was all wrong. The "Raw Data Now!" chant was cringe-worthy - even without comparison to BillG.
dbul 18y ago
I thought he would be more articulate for a Swatty. In order for linked data or semantic web to really take off someone really needs to break through with a proof of concept. Right now it is just extra work.
mhausenblas 18y ago
IMHO TimBL did a great job at TED. I dunno where you have seen him stressed out - he certainly enjoyed it. Btw, linked data is mainly about URIs and HTTP and yes RDF (for the data model part) and some lightweight vocabularies such as FOAF, SOIC, Dublin Core, etc. - check out http://webofdata.wordpress.com http://webofdata.wordpress.com as well, I blog there about it ;) Cheers, Michael PS: To be honest, I was also sort of surprised to see him calling the audience like 'speak after me'. However, I was positively surprised - I really like when people put enthusiasm in things and not only give interesting but boring talks. In that sense I very much support TimBL to continue this (though, maybe not go as far as Steven B. at MS did with his infamous 'monkey dance' ;)
- CaptSolo 18y ago
  you must have meant SIOC (where SOIC is written)

by tobych 18y ago

whatusername 18y ago

agreed. I haven't seen TBL do many(any) speeches before to compare - but he didn't seem comfortable at all. I support the idea (actually - it made me think a lot about Wolfram's alpha -- it seems to be a compiled version of what Tim is after) - but I thought the pitch for it was all wrong. The "Raw Data Now!" chant was cringe-worthy - even without comparison to BillG.

dbul 18y ago

I thought he would be more articulate for a Swatty. In order for linked data or semantic web to really take off someone really needs to break through with a proof of concept. Right now it is just extra work.

mhausenblas 18y ago

IMHO TimBL did a great job at TED. I dunno where you have seen him stressed out - he certainly enjoyed it. Btw, linked data is mainly about URIs and HTTP and yes RDF (for the data model part) and some lightweight vocabularies such as FOAF, SOIC, Dublin Core, etc. - check out http://webofdata.wordpress.com http://webofdata.wordpress.com as well, I blog there about it ;) Cheers, Michael PS: To be honest, I was also sort of surprised to see him calling the audience like 'speak after me'. However, I was positively surprised - I really like when people put enthusiasm in things and not only give interesting but boring talks. In that sense I very much support TimBL to continue this (though, maybe not go as far as Steven B. at MS did with his infamous 'monkey dance' ;)

CaptSolo 18y ago
you must have meant SIOC (where SOIC is written)