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.
Fred Wilson has an excellent blog post on the topic of online syndication and the future of digital entertainment. He’s been nailing this issue for a long time now. This is great free consulting for the content publishing industry: “Here’s the bottom line. In the digital medium, the content should be syndicated as broadly as … Read more
I missed it earlier in the day (and didn’t see it in the hearing room), but Andrew McLaughlin (disclosure: long-time Berkman fellow and friend) has posted to the Google blog a statement about their offering in China. The news in the statement, to me, is their recommended next steps, with which I broadly agree: “1. … Read more
Mister Chairman, Distinguished Members of the Caucus: My name is John Palfrey. Thank you for the leadership of this Caucus in drawing attention to the relationship between the Internet and human rights in China and for the opportunity to speak with you today. I am here today as a member of a team of … Read more
I’m at the Berkman Center feverishly trying to finish testimony for the Congressional Human Rights Caucus hearing tomorow in DC. I’m just starting to consider Microsoft’s announcement of its new policy on blogging, censorship and surveillance. At a minimum, I am pleased to see the transparency of their decision-making, the commitment to a process internally … Read more
We at the OpenNet Initiative have built a search-compare tool to show what results you get on google.cn as compared to google.com. Be sure to try out “human rights” and some of the other sample searches we’ve got up there. (Special credits to Nart Villeneuve and Boris Anthony.)
We are enormously grateful to our friends at the MacArthur Foundation for their support, in the form of a $3 million grant, of our next four years on the OpenNet Initiative in its study of filtering and surveillance online.
Alois Stutzer and Bruno S. Frey (University of Zurich) have a new paper out in the Review of Law & Economics called “Making International Organizations More Democratic.” Likely of interest to the watchers of ICANN, WSIS, and related institutionsin the Internet space (what I think of as the NetDialogue crowd!). The abstract: “World governance today … Read more
Today, we are announcing a new project — StopBadware.org — at the Berkman Center, in partnership with the Oxford Internet Institute and our unpaid special advisors at Consumer Reports Web Watch. This is an active research initiative that collects data and stories from consumers in a publicly-accessible clearinghouse, sets forth a series of guidelines for … Read more
David Berlind has a great piece based in large measure on an interview with Jonathan Zittrain about the law enforcement/privacy/tech company flap kicked off by DOJ’s measures to get Google to comply with their order to turn over search data. Berlind sets it in the right frame, I think, which is not a simple request … Read more
There’s a remarkable and worthwhile thread forming over at Shelley Powers’ Burningbird blog after her post on RSS and copyright. I don’t agree with everything written there, but it’s a fascinating back-and-forth, and features two posts (at least) from Denise Howell, which alone makes it worth the read. It strikes me as just the kind … Read more