14.09.10   |   kl. 13:49   |   Aktuelt

Tim Berners-Lee: The Web is not dead

Wired editor Chris Anderson gets some serious blows by the inventor of the Web. According to Tim Berners-Lee WWW is very alive and Wired should not be proud of it's claim that the Web is dead..

Foto: Lars Bertelsen.

The Wired feature The Web is Dead. Long Live the Internet gets wry comments from Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who is in Copenhagen today to receive a UNESCO award for his invention of the World Wide Web. 

- It's certainly a great headline which has attracted a lot of attention. I thought Wired Magazine was dead, but now everybody's talking about it again, Berners-Lee said to Danish Magazine Prosabladet.

According to Tim Berners-Lee, the Wired article contains misleading information. A graph alledgedly showing the decrease in web traffic is at the heart of the criticism.

- The graph is an appalling piece of bad journalism and sensationalism that I don't think Chris Anderson should be proud of, the Web inventor states.

Tim Berners-Lee acknowledges that the Wired feature contains one valid piece of information:

- Hidden beneath the graph in the article there's actually an interesting point. Chris Anderson states that people are keen of phone apps. His worry, which is a valid worry, is that if you just move to apps and away from the Web you can't link to or search information on the web.

Listen to a part of the interview here.

Read the Wired Feature

See the BoingBoing article that Tim Berners Lee recommend.

The full interview with Prosabladet will be made available when the interview is published in October.

Info on PROSA.DK

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