Sunday, October 10, 2010

BBC News - Who'd Be a Web Scientist? - 29 September 2010

This is a very an interesting BBC article about a Semantic Web conference :-

"Bill Thompson thinks you can treat the web as an object of scientific study.

I've spent two days this week at the Royal Society in London sitting in the front row of their Web Science conference as one of the nominated 'Twitter chairs'.

It may not sound much, but along with Jamillah Knowles from Radio 5 Live's Outriders and Les Carr from the University of Southampton, I had the interesting task of attempting to manage the conversation about the conference taking place on the Twitter social network.

All the while, speakers as distinguished as Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Dame Wendy Hall and professors Nigel Shadbolt, Jonathan Zittrain and Manuel Castells speak on stage."

BBC News - Who'd Be a Web Scientist? - 29 September 2010 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11425795