''Professor Jonathan Zittrain, co-founder of Harvard's Berkman Centre for Internet & Society, says other aspects of the new laws are unworkable. 'There are genuine worries about misinformation that can be spread online, but...'''
''Both models have their place, says David Ardia, head of the Citizen Media Law Project at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, but users must give the crowd-sourced model time to work.''
'''The uprising in Burma is ultimately an example of a protest where digitally network technologies played a critical role' researcher Mridul Chowdhury reported in his paper 'The Role of the Internet in Burma’s Saffron Revolutionr...''
''If the technologies students use — and sometimes abuse — add up to an overwhelming jumble for some professors who teach them, John Palfrey and Urs Gasser have written a book that they hope will bridge the generation gap...''
''Lora Bentley spoke with Hal Roberts, who studies privacy and surveillance issues for Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.''
'''The uptake on mobile phones in Africa is phenomenal,' says Ethan Zuckerman, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School and the founder of GeekCorps, a nonprofit group working to expand Internet use in emerging nations.''
''Increasingly, popular culture is taking its cues from user-generated Web content that can quickly spread far and wide, said Tim Hwang, an Internet culture expert with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.''
'''Think of One Web Day as an environmental movement for the Internet ecosystem,' wrote Eszter Hargittai, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.''
The anniversary conference was organized by Phil Malone, director of the Cyber Law Clinic at Harvard Law's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. While a lawyer with the Justice Department's San Francisco office, Malone led a team of Justice lawyers who amassed the thousands of emails, contracts found to be illegal and other conduct that led to the finding that Microsoft had abused its monopoly power.
''[Karim] Lakhani has been studying what is called distributed innovation, in which solutions to a business or technical problem are solicited from a wide variety of people.''
'''It was meant to be a ''mousepads and shoe leather'' campaign,' says David Weinberger [...], who is now a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center. 'They were not good at doing the shoe leather.'''
''But Mr. [John] Palfrey warns that parents posting [online] the intimate details of their children’s lives need to ask not only who has access to this content, but also who owns it.''
In the wake of the Harry Potter Lexicon trial, the Berkman Center's Citizen Media Law Project has announced a new partnership with the Right to Write Fund, which helped defend Harry Potter Lexicon author Steve Vander Ark and will continue to support creative artists faced with similar legal threats.
''While Zittrain and Palfrey worry about losing the very best about the Internet, both books [Born Digital, The Future of the Internet] ultimately are optimistic, laying out today’s challenges but also presenting reasoned solutions and urging parents, lawmakers, technology companies and others to assume a role in preserving the medium.''
''While the First Amendment protects the right to state opinions, bloggers can get into trouble when they include factual statements in their postings, according to David Ardia, director of the Citizen Media Law Project at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society.''
The World Food Programme announced Saturday that Berkman Award Winner John Breen has expanded FreeRice to include more games; and he will be collaborating with the Berkman Center on further developing and supporting FreeRice...
The Berkman Center is pleased to announce that Faculty Co-Director John Palfrey and Faculty Fellow Urs Gasser's "Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives" (Basic Books) is now available...
''The Russian military certainly had the means to attack Georgia's Internet infrastructure, says Jonathan Zittrain, cofounder of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.''
''More people in China have access to more independent sources of news and information online in the wake of complaints by Olympics journalists' about web censorship, according to a new report from the OpenNet Initiative.''
'''It's a clear statement that if someone doesn't follow the conditions you put into an open-source license, you have a copyright claim,' said Wendy Seltzer, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School.''
''Global Voices, the excellent global blogging project founded by Rebecca MacKinnon and the Harvard Berkman Center for the Internet and Society, caught wind of the detainment and started posting translations of Zhou's Twitter messages...''
''The weblog Global Voices Online, a nonprofit media project founded at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, has been collecting posts by bloggers writing about the military conflict between Georgia and Russia that began Friday.''
'''In terms of the scope and international dimension of this attack, it's a landmark,' said Ronald J. Deibert, director of the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab...''
''If that's what you think, you need to read Jonathan Zittrain's new book, The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It. A professor of law and Internet governance and regulation at Oxford...''
''At the point where universities finally come to see they're the target of this RIAA campaign, that's the point at which they'll start arguing their own self-interest,'' says Charles R. Nesson, founder of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
''Psiphon Inc., a Toronto-based circumvention technology provider, recently released an upgrade to its software that allows the safe transmission of images in addition to text, says principal Rafal Rohozinski.''
''Internet filtering has been on the rise in Asia for the past five years,'' says John Palfrey, executive director of Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society.
''I think Queen Rania's [YouTube page] is one of the more impressive attempts to use YouTube for social change,'' writes Ethan Zuckerman, cofounder of the citizen's media website Global Voices.
'Managing computer systems distracts attention from your real business. Computers crash, and you fume helplessly as the IT staff restores your ordinary workflow...'
''The trolls employed what the M.I.T. professor Judith Donath calls a 'pseudo-naïve' tactic, asking stupid questions and seeing who would rise to the bait.''
