Tim Berners-Lee and the Freedom of The City


Side on photo of Sir Tim giving a speech in the Guildhall.

Originally written in 2014 - but lost somehow. Last week, I had the privilege of being invited into the Guildhall to watch Tim Berners-Lee receive the Honorary Freedom of the City. I was one of a dozen bloggers and tweeters asked to live tweet the ceremony. As The City moves into the digital era, it is beginning to modernise and so this was the first ceremony open to bloggers and the first to be live broadcast on the web. I got a pretty good seat for the ceremony :-) Terence Eden is on…

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