I had the pleasure of meeting Daniel Rubin, a reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer, at an event at the National Constitution Center earlier this week. Dan’s got a terrific blog that I’ve just started reading and subscribing too, called Blinq. I note also that Jay Rosen and his students at NYU are already signing his … Read more
Lance Knobel wrote today about meeting with MySociety’s Tom Steinberg, who is coming to talk at the Berkman Center on Tuesday about PledgeBank, “one of those ideas that is so brilliantly simple you wonder why it hasn’t been done before.”
I subscribe to a feed of Kaye Trammell’s great blog. I met her at the Oxford Internet Institute a few summers ago, we invited her to a conference at Harvard Law School, and I’ve enjoyed following her work since then via her blog. I’ve noticed over the past few months much less updating from Kaye … Read more
Words to the wise academics who blog then look to get a job, from the Chronicle of Higher Education. A snippet: “Worst of all, for professional academics, it’s a publishing medium with no vetting process, no review board, and no editor. The author is the sole judge of what constitutes publishable material, and the medium … Read more
I don’t have any data to prove it, but I’d guess that cyberspace is growing today at a much faster pace in absolute terms than it ever has before. The citizens’ media movement has a great deal to do with that, as do innovations like Creative Commons and other forms of institutional support for new … Read more
So much for the automatic kind: the best Grokster roundups are by people: see Donna, Ernest, Derek et al.
The LA Times covers Hoder’s heroic trip home for the vote for the presidency in Iran. Bravo to the many people in the online community who supported this trip, in myriad ways, and, of course, to the man himself. (We at the ONI have been looking hard at Iran this week and our studies suggest … Read more
I am building an aggregator for those blogging iLaw 2005. Please let me know by e-mail at jpalfrey AT law.harvard.edu. -JP
If you haven’t heard Kaye Trammell (a prof of Mass Communications) on her dissertation topic — celebrity blogs — you have your chance later this week in NYC. Or check out the short-form on her own blog.
“The revolution is in the mini-disk,” says Daoud Kuttab. Fresh after web-cred, we’ve got the enormous pleasure of Kuttab, a journalist and founder of Ammannet (Jordan), as our Berkman luncheon series speaker today. He is talking about running a web- and terrestrial radio operation from Jordan. It’s an extraordinary story. His news operation covers the … Read more