Not quite 10 years ago, a literally once-in-a-lifetime opportunity came my way: I got the chance to be the third executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard. It was about four years old. The Berkman Center was blessed with visionary founders and talented students. It had been set up by … Read more
John, As you know, my blog is in hibernation. Would you mind posting the following response to Andy Orlowski’s latest for the record? I hadn’t thought any response would be necessary, but the ordinarily sensible (even if I disagree with its politics) Capitol Confidential seems to have been misled by Orlowski’s piece. Perhaps there are … Read more
We’ve got David Berlind, executive editor of ZDNet here as part of our Tuesday luncheon series at the Berkman Center today. We’re hoping to rope him into JZ’s cyberlaw class (to talk ODF, SCO, and the like) and also for the fellows’ meeting this afternoon, too. His 75-minute tour-de-force on a range of issues from … Read more
It was several years ago this time, over the winter holiday break, that I first met Dave Winer. He came well-introduced and with an extraordinary record of accomplishment behind (and, as it turned out, ahead) of him. We met in the unheated Berkman conference room in a dark building, with all the sane academics burrowed … Read more
J.D. Amer of Lopico and beyond writes: “Perhaps this is what web2.0 really means, the building of an entirely new information retrevial system based on humans and social interaction. Old methods are new again.”
The final day of our three-day swing through the UK, the second annual Global Voices conference, was invigorating. The team of 75+ who assembled — bloggers and editors from around the world, actor Richard Dreyfuss, academics like us, the executives from Reuters and foundations like MacArthur and Soros who are supporting it — comprise an … Read more
Today we’re 50 miles south of Oxford, in London, near Paddington, for a small-group session on Internet, filtering, blogging, and human rights. It’s amazing group that brings some of the global voices crowd — gathered here for GV II tomorrow — together with human rights activists and technologists from the OpenNet Initiative. The idea is … Read more
Today starts a three-day swing through the UK by those of us at the Berkman Center who work on issues related to Internet & democracy. * Today, we’re with our partners at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) with about 25 scholars and activists who work on e-Participation. The events officially kicked off with a public … Read more
Scripting News’ Dave Winer and Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie have today co-announced what promises to be a huge innovation in the RSS and OPML space, called SSE. Here is Ray Ozzie’s introduction to the announcement. In his blog-post, he describes a calendaring problem that certainly resonates. The spec is here. To my lawyer’s mind, best of … Read more
The US Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor released its International Religious Freedom 2005 report.