Berkman Center Newsfeed

Berkman is hiring!

syoung — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:30:00 -0400

We're looking to hire a handful of sharp, visionary people to join our ever-growing community.

Our tenth anniversary year, Berkman@10, is behind us -- apart from a few details, and a coda in the form of John Palfrey and Urs Gasser's Born Digital -- and we're stepping into our new university-wide position. To help us grow smartly into "Berkman 3.0," we're searching for a new Executive Director and a group of crack staff to augment our wonderful team.

Webcast: 7/21, 4pm, FCC public en banc hearing on "Broadband and the Digital Future"

syoung — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:30:00 -0400

The world of Global Voices, rising

syoung — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:30:00 -0400

Global Voices Online has announced an Executive Director! In August, Ivan Sigal will take the helm, joining Managing Director Georgia Popplewell and GVO's international team and growing network. Today, GVO co-founder Rebecca MacKinnon joins Ethan Zuckerman in celebrating the news.

Berkman Buzz: Week of July 14, 2008

lkoss — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:30:39 -0400

BERKMAN BUZZ: A look at the past week's online Berkman conversations. If you'd like to receive this by email, just sign up here. The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University

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Thinking through section 201 of the Global Online Freedom Act

syoung — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:10:12 -0400

Over on the Future of the Internet blog, Berkman summer intern Brendan Ballou takes a look at the Global Online Freedom Act being considered by Congress...

"Markets under reconstruction"

syoung — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:29:49 -0400

Doc Searls reports on Monday and Tuesday's first-ever VRM workshop:

Here’s my report (with links to as much as I could gather in a short time) on the VRM Workshop, over at the ProjectVRM blog.
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Digital Natives team kicks off Reporters in the Field series

syoung — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:00:00 -0400

This afternoon, the Digital Natives project rolled out the first video in its Reporters in the Field series, which will investigate the project's issues and themes through one of those same themes: digital media creation.

The Digital Natives interns and researchers have been hard at work over the last couple months, and they will be releasing a new media piece each week through the beginning of fall.

Digital Natives: Going Loca: Privacy in a digital world

syoung — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:41:54 -0400

Openness for Life Science Databases

ashar — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:30:00 -0400

The Science Commons Open Access Data Protocol proposes requirements for interoperability of scientific data. Legal simplicity and predictability can be achieved by waiving copyright and other contractual restrictions, allowing data integrators to reuse, modify and redistribute large datasets. But legal accessibility issues are not the only hurdle to data integration. Technical Open Access allows scientists to download data easily and use them in any way, including

ProjectVRM Workshop

ashar — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:30:00 -0400

Tune in to a VRM video stream from Sean Bohan: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/vrm-workshop-2008.

And join in to the IRC channel via Freenode, at #VRM.

Berkman Buzz: Week of July 7, 2008

lkoss — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:41:42 -0400

BERKMAN BUZZ: A look at the past week's online Berkman conversations. If you'd like to receive this by email, just sign up here. The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University

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Iranian parliament moving toward death penalty for blogging on certain topics

ashar — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:18:06 -0400

From the Citizen Media Law Project blog...

Creative Commons' Metrics Project Now Live

syoung — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:27:43 -0400

Rebooting America: Ideas for Resdesigning American Democracy for the Internet Age

ashar — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:47:50 -0400

Personal Democracy Forum has released Rebooting America, an anthology of 44 essays on ideas for Rebooting Democracy in the digital age.

Various Berkman faculty and fellows have essays included in the collection.

Berkman's hiring: Cyberlaw Clinic Fellow

syoung — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:00:00 -0400

Berkman's Cyberlaw Clinic is seeking a resident Clinical Fellow for the academic year 2008-09. If you are passionate about working with students and internet/IP law, here is your chance to closely mentor and supervise Harvard Law students as they pursue fascinating, cutting-edge cases in our Clinic.

Berkman Buzz: Week of June 30, 2008

lkoss — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:22:12 -0400

BERKMAN BUZZ: A look at the past week's online Berkman conversations. If you'd like to receive this by email, just sign up here. The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University

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Berkman Center Announces Request for Technical Submissions Related to Child Safety on the Internet

lkoss — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:23:49 -0400

Cambridge, MA – The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University today formally announced a Request for Technical Submissions as part of the work of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force.

One Web Day sans...The Web?

rtabasky — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:40:21 -0400

"I was recently asked to help celebrate “One Web Day” an event I admit I had never heard of. So I googled it, naturally, and discovered that it was roughly “earth day for the internet,” an opportunity to celebrate what the world wide web means to humanity. How could I not be tickled pink? Much of my waking life is guided by the faint glow of the internet, and when not actively “participating” in web culture, I am often studying its dynamics like an anthropologist (a la danah boyd)

Global Voices Citizen Media Summit Keeps Giving

lkoss — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:28:39 -0400

The Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2008 was held in Budapest, Hungary, June 27-28. As noted on the summit's website, the event brought together "the members of the Global Voices citizen media project and its wider community with a diverse group of bloggers, activists, technologists, journalists and others persons from around the world, for two days of public discussions and workshops around the theme 'Citizen Media & Citizenhood.'"

Berkman Buzz: Week of June 23, 2008

lkoss — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:24:37 -0400

BERKMAN BUZZ: A look at the past week's online Berkman conversations. If you'd like to receive this by email, just sign up here. The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University

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