Our OpenNet Initiative partners at the Citizen Lab of the Munk Centre at the University of Toronto have created a new way to view censorship online: an updated interactive map. This new visualization tool is a central aspect of Amnesty International’s recently-launched campaign against online censorship called Irrepressible.info. CBC reports, as does BBC. (Bravo to … Read more
An alternate version of “The Game”: Harvard vs. Yale via Alexa.
The Court of Appeal in California (Sixth Appellate District) has ruled in favor of Jason O’Grady in his dispute with Apple Computer. It’s a pretty resounding opinion (linked here (PDF)), covering a lot of ground, including trade secret, the Stored Communications Act, and various other issues related to whether a corporation can stop a publisher … Read more
One of Berkman’s all-time great graduates, Ory Okolloh, has launched Mzalendo, which is watching over the Kenyan parliament. Subscribe to their RSS feed; bound to tell important stories, and to be an important story itself. They are “a volunteer run project whose mission is to ‘keep an eye on the Kenyan Parliament.’ The project was … Read more
A year’s research on the digital identity metasystem, led by Berkman fellow John Clippinger, culminates in the Identity Mash-up conference June 19 – 21. The participant and speaker lists are already taking excellent shape. The idea is to explore in depth the development of a federated system of digital identities and to explore ways in … Read more
John Bracken (Media SITREP), off the grid for 2 weeks, has used his absence to encourage a guest blogger, Yaucono, who writes of happy coffee memories: “Yaucono kept me awake, aware, soothed, and rooted in my culture and values in the midst of the most unsettling experience of my young life – not just the … Read more
The organizers of a conference I’m just leaving mentioned to me a curious fact: they invited 6 prominent bloggers — not to be named here (and I am certainly not including myself in this category) — to attend the event, called The Leaders Project. Not a single one responded, not even to RSVP “no.” I … Read more
The process of experiencing news of those Born Digital – the Digital Natives — is famously different from the generations they succeed. DNs don’t read the New York Times or their local paper cover-to-cover over coffee in the morning, nor return home to hear the news read by Walter Cronkhite or Dan Rather (then discuss … Read more
At the Berkman Center, we don’t work on making tools that allow the circumvention of the Internet filtering that we study (along with collaborators at the University of Cambridge, Oxford Internet Institute, and the University of Toronto). But our partners at the University of Toronto do. Much anticipated: the announcement of Psiphon. Here’s the new … Read more
Former Secretary of Defense William Cohen, along with his colleague Doug Wilson, has been hosting a very interesting “successor generation” event called The Leaders Project for the past several years. The sixth iteration of the event is hosted at a remarkable estate in northeast Florida called White Oak, as it has been for five of … Read more