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
The Chronicle will host a live session on Wednesday discussing scholars and blogging. An article highlights Harvard student Matthew Yglesias, noting how senior faculty in his field reference his blog without condescension, emphasizing a respectful acknowledgment of his work in academic circles.
I’m convinced that the role of the evangelist is essential to the success of our effort to get blogs into use as far and as wide at Harvard as possible. The technology, its effectiveness, and the experience will all speak for themselves, but there’s got to be someone to make the pitch and get people excited about … Read more