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
On Wednesday night, HLS feted Prof. William W. (“Terry”) Fisher III as he received the Hale and Dorr Intellectual Property chair. It was an exceptional event: a standing-room-only crowd in Austin East and a lecture, prompted by Dean Elena Kagan’s inauguration of a new-to-HLS-but-nonetheless-venerable tradition, on the state of the field of the freshly-chaired professor. The … Read more
Next week, on Tuesday, October 21, 2003, the Berkman Center is pleased to host Yossi Vardi, Principal of International Technologies Ventures and one of Israel’s leading venture capitalists, for his speech at Harvard Law School. Mr. Vardi is widely regarded as a leading thinker about the role of technology in society. His lecture will be held … Read more
Christopher Lydon, one to whom we all should listen, has started a blog. This will be one to watch. Next stop for XL: audio blogs.
The Globe story on the tough job of the college CIOs has some of the key issues outlined: e.g., how do you ensure the free expression of ideas over the university network while complying with the DMCA?
So, I was lucky enough to meet up with Halley Suitt for lunch today to talk about blogging and Harvard and knowledge management and all that. She’s local here in Cambridge. It confirmed for me, yet again, the importance of the face-to-face complement to working with people online. It’s increasingly clear to me that online … Read more