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
“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
Red Herring’s Mitch Ratcliffe responds to Jay Rosen’s piece (“Bloggers vs. Journalists is Over”) in advance of our conference on web credibility: “Bloggers are beating the crap out of journalists, because bloggers are giving away what writers used to be paid to produce. That doesn’t mean bloggers are going to win the market, because there … Read more
A very cool piece by Paul Boutin on the presidential primary campaign and technology — including an extremely flattering reference to the Berkman weblogs movement (hey, thanks, Dave Winer!).
Kaye Trammell on the proper aspiration of the Internet researcher: “We should work not just to get published and define or classify a medium. Instead, we should work to add to the medium — to add to society’s understanding of it.” Straight out of the Berkman Center mission statement. A perfect reason why we should be involved in … Read more
At long last, Andrew McLaughlin has a weblog. Such good news. Not suprisingly, he’s out of the gate with a real gusto. His post of today: on VoIP (Voice-over-Internet- Protocol), entitled, “Judge Davis Gets it: The Internet is not a Telephone.” Andrew is first-among-equals of a group of us team-teaching a class called Digital Democracy, which, … Read more