Homeward!

Jonathan Zittrain appointed to tenured faculty position

Jonathan Zittrain has accepted an offer to become a tenured Professor of Law at Harvard Law School! He will continue to serve as a Berkman faculty co-director. Everyone at the center welcomes him home!

Berkman@10: into the future

"The Future of the Internet" conference is three weeks behind us, but the insights and trajectories it generated lie ahead. Roll up your sleeves. We continue our collective journey with video of all of the conference's plenary sessions, including the closing "Onward!" discussion...

It's official!

Berkman Center goes university-wide

The Harvard Gazette carries the news, which was announced last Thursday morning during opening remarks at the Berkman@10 conference...

Educators, Activists, Entrepreneurs, and Lawyers Win Berkman Awards for Internet Innovation

Winners include Esra’a Al Shafei, Richard Baraniuk, John Breen, Jeffrey Cunard and Bruce Keller, Carl Malamud, and Noah Samara

Announced Friday, May 16, at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society’s tenth anniversary gala dinner, recipients of the Berkman Awards were chosen for their outstanding contributions to the Internet’s impact on society over the past decade.

Publius: fourth batch of essays now live

Our newly launched Publius project has been rolling out batches of essays all week in conjunction with Berkman@10. Today, a final batch for the week that parallels some of the Berkman@10 conference's breakout sessions...

Berkman@10: day two

The Berkman@10 conference moves into its second day. Social tools are running, and some parts of today will be webcast. If you are unable to attend in person, please join us in cyberspace...

Publius: more on "Tacit Governance"

As promised, we are pleased to announce the continuation of our Publius conversation on Rules and Governance with new pieces by David Johnson, JP Rangaswami, Wendy Seltzer, and Pierre de Vries...

Launching Publius: first essays now live!

As part of the lead up to our Berkman@10 conference and gala (this Thursday and Friday!), we are pleased to announce the launch of a new project: Publius. Publius brings together a distinguished collection of individuals to write short essays, foster a public dialogue, and create a durable record of how the rules of cyberspace are being formed -- with a view to affecting their future incarnations. The first essays -- by David Weinberger, Esther Dyson, and Kevin Werbach -- are now live! with a preface by John Palfrey...

Internet Filtering: 2007 Year in Review

In the thick of Berkman@10's uninterrupted series of major events, announcements, and releases, we feted and discussed the OpenNet Initiative's landmark book on global Internet filtering, Access Denied, published earlier this semester. In anticipation of the OpenNet Initiative's new, greatly expanded data set, which will be rolling out soon, we invite you to review some of the filtering that took place in 2007.

Debating democratisation and the Internet

Dust off your British spelling guides. As part of the Berkman Center’s ongoing tenth anniversary celebration, Berkman@10 (conference and gala next week!), we’re retrieving some multimedia classics from our past, including, to date, six notable moments that were saved on tape. This week, for the last in our series, we step back one year, linking across the pond to debate whether "the Internet is the greatest force for democratisation in the world."

Berkman@10 is just one week away!

Updates and more...

Final logistics and details for the Berkman@10 Conference, and a reminder to register for the Gala!

Berkman@10 webcasts

Registration has been closed for the Berkman@10 conference May 15-16 (there's still time to register for the May 16 gala!), but, for those unable to attend in person, there will be webcasts of the plenary sessions and live videoblogging!

Mike Doughty cuts through the noise

Charge up your mp3 player. As part of the Berkman Center’s ongoing tenth anniversary celebration, Berkman@10, we’re retrieving some multimedia classics from our past, including, to date, five notable moments that were saved on tape. This week, by popular demand, we're coughing up an interview with Mike Doughty, and his guitar, at Signal/Noise 2k5.

Ethan Zuckerman: the history of digital community, in less than 7 minutes

Fasten your time machine seatbelt. As part of the Berkman Center’s ongoing tenth anniversary celebration, Berkman@10, we’re retrieving some classics from our multimedia archive, including, to date, four great moments that were saved on tape. This week, a double hat tip -- to ROFLCon's group dissection of Internet culture and to Digital Natives' roundup of Internet video, which reminded us of this classic from the watershed first Beyond Broadcast conference...

Reality re-check: Will the Internet draft the next president?

Organize your neighbors, it's time for a (re)viewing party. As part of the Berkman Center’s ongoing tenth anniversary celebration, Berkman@10, we’re retrieving some multimedia classics from our past. To date, we’ve featured Lessig v. Valenti, Nesson re: University, and Barlow on "The Economy of Ideas." This week, in anticipation of our May 14 event with the Institute of Politics -- Youth, Civic Engagement, and the 2008 Campaign -- we're highlighting an earlier, election year collaboration with the IOP.

John Perry Barlow looking back on an Internet decade

Find your headphones and grab a seat, maybe skip the popcorn this week. As part of the Berkman Center’s ongoing tenth anniversary celebration, Berkman@10, we’re retrieving some classics from our multimedia archive and adding them to our new YouTube channel. This week, in honor of the Public Radio Exchange, we’re going radio-style! In February 2004, Nesson aurally annotated an interview with John Perry Barlow, “Looking Back on an Internet Decade.”

BERKMAN AWARDS: one day left to nominate

Time is running out to submit nominations for the first Berkman Awards. The awards will be presented to people or institutions that have made a significant contribution to the Internet and its impact on society over the past decade. The primary awardee will receive $50,000. There are no conditions placed on how the award money must be spent. Nominations for the awards will be accepted from the public UNTIL TOMORROW, APRIL 11, 2008.