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Charles Matthews

30 Jan 2010 30 Jan '10

11:43 p.m.

The first of four films has just been screened - this is a documentary series by Aleks Krotowski for 20 years of the Web. http://www.bbc.co.uk/virtualrevolution/ is the website, with footage from the interviews. Charles

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Isabell Long

31 Jan 31 Jan

12:38 a.m.

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 09:43:14PM +0000, Charles Matthews wrote:

The first of four films has just been screened - this is a documentary series by Aleks Krotowski for 20 years of the Web. http://www.bbc.co.uk/virtualrevolution/ is the website, with footage from the interviews.

I put the TV on just as the bit about Wikipedia was finishing! The bit I saw looked very interesting, though! :) -- Regards, Isabell Long <isabell121(a)gmail.com> [[User:Isabell121]] on all public Wikimedia projects Freenode Community Co-Ordinator - issyl0 on irc.freenode.net PGP Key ID: 0xEB83C2BD

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Charles Matthews

12:50 a.m.

Isabell Long wrote:

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 09:43:14PM +0000, Charles Matthews wrote:

The first of four films has just been screened - this is a documentary series by Aleks Krotowski for 20 years of the Web. http://www.bbc.co.uk/virtualrevolution/ is the website, with footage from the interviews.

I put the TV on just as the bit about Wikipedia was finishing! The bit I saw looked very interesting, though! :)

There was plenty about Wikipedia. And I guess you can see it all online. Sadly there was even more of Andrew Keen's opinions, but we live in an imperfect world ... Charles

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geni

12:56 a.m.

2010/1/30 Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com>om>:

Isabell Long wrote:

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 09:43:14PM +0000, Charles Matthews wrote:

The first of four films has just been screened - this is a documentary series by Aleks Krotowski for 20 years of the Web. http://www.bbc.co.uk/virtualrevolution/ is the website, with footage from the interviews.

I put the TV on just as the bit about Wikipedia was finishing! The bit I saw looked very interesting, though! :)

There was plenty about Wikipedia. And I guess you can see it all online. Sadly there was even more of Andrew Keen's opinions, but we live in an imperfect world ... Charles

Does he have any new ones? -- geni

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Charles Matthews

1:15 a.m.

geni wrote:

2010/1/30 Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com>om>:

Isabell Long wrote:

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 09:43:14PM +0000, Charles Matthews wrote:

The first of four films has just been screened - this is a documentary series by Aleks Krotowski for 20 years of the Web. http://www.bbc.co.uk/virtualrevolution/ is the website, with footage from the interviews.

I put the TV on just as the bit about Wikipedia was finishing! The bit I saw looked very interesting, though! :)

There was plenty about Wikipedia. And I guess you can see it all online. Sadly there was even more of Andrew Keen's opinions, but we live in an imperfect world ... Charles

Does he have any new ones?

I hadn't heard the one about Arianna Huffington being an interesting person, but not exactly a revolutionary. I suppose one caps that by saying Keen is an uninteresting person, but ... "precisely because" of that ... is a counter-revolutionary. Charles

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David Gerard

1:18 a.m.

On 30 January 2010 23:15, Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:

I hadn't heard the one about Arianna Huffington being an interesting person, but not exactly a revolutionary. I suppose one caps that by saying Keen is an uninteresting person, but ... "precisely because" of that ... is a counter-revolutionary.

Did he troll for a book much? - d.

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Charles Matthews

1:35 a.m.

David Gerard wrote:

On 30 January 2010 23:15, Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:

I hadn't heard the one about Arianna Huffington being an interesting person, but not exactly a revolutionary. I suppose one caps that by saying Keen is an uninteresting person, but ... "precisely because" of that ... is a counter-revolutionary.

Did he troll for a book much?

Not in what they have posted: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/digitalrevolution/2009/10/rushes-sequences-andre… A bit short on redeeming features. Charles

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