This is a default category that holds all the entries that I have failed to categorize properly! I hope to get this list down to zero over time.
David Berlind, exec editor at ZDNet, has a first-class piece of journalism on the fairly dramatic recent doings in Massachusetts on ODF and related issues. Our involvement in these matters is largely through our work with the Open ePolicy Group, through which we developed a Roadmap on adopting open standards.
Yesterday, we at the OpenNet Initiative (a collaboration of Berkman/HLS with the Advanced Network Research Group of the Cambridge Security Programme at University of Cambridge, where Rafal Rohozinski is the principal, and the Citizen Lab at University of Toronto, where Ron Deibert is the principal) released a report on Internet filtering in Myanmar (Burma). The NYT’s Tom … Read more
Tom Steinberg is having lunch with us here at the Berkman Center. He’s telling us about MySociety and its various anti-collective-action-problem tools like PledgeBank. If you doubt its power, check out the campaign on ID cards and the effort to create a British EFF. Tom is rolling out an international version of PledgeBank (which is … Read more
Julian Aiken and a group University of Pittsburgh graduates and graduate students are launching a new open access journal, Digital Watch, for library scientists. From their About: “Digital Watch is an Open Access online academic journal, which has been created by graduate students in the University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences to offer a forum for … Read more
Prof. Geist has released “In the Public Interest,” a compilation of 19 essays on Canada’s copyright struggles as a new round of copyright reform gets underway. “As Canada embarks on a new round of digital copyright reform, this collection of 19 essays from Canada’s leading copyright experts provides context and analysis of the latest reform … Read more
So, the United States is mad that the EU and others want to reduce the US control over the domain name system, as exercised through a contract between the US Department of Commerce and ICANN. I agree wholeheartedly that the system of management of the DNS, which has worked well at a technical level, is … 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.”
The Otter Group has released a 12-pager on how podcasting can be used for learning. Anything that makes learning fun, easier, and more productive, in the corporation or the academy, is worth exploring. The Otter Group has a few good examples, such as using podcasting in teaching conflict resolution and medical practice. The most useful part … Read more
If true, this matter brings Garrison Keillor so far down in my estimation… Yet another T-shirt you cannot buy. The lawyer who wrote this cease-and-desist letter apparently scanned into this page cannot have kept a straight face when s/he wrote, in relevant part: “It has come to our attention that you are marketing T-shirts bearing … Read more
How do you solve today’s security problems on the Internet, like viruses? Dr. Hossein Eslambolchi, the CTO and CIO of AT&T, is telling us here at the Berkman Center that we need to think again about end-to-end: 1) You have to build intelligence into the network, especially sensors, to solve problems like viruses. 2 + … Read more