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David Kirkpatrick has a column on RSS and business, which features colleagues Jim Moore and Dave Winer, as well as a vision of the future.

Ethan Zuckerman has a fascinating post on the reach of the recently-launched Global Voices meta-blog.  As with so many projects, I am super-proud of what EZ, Rebecca MacKinnon, and co. have going under the Berkman banner. (Wonder where he’s getting his conclusions?  Much in the commendable media-transparency style of David Berlind, Ethan offers up a … Read more

Here is a bit more on what we are looking for in a managing director of the Berkman Center.  The online application is via this link.

Hi.  The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School is hiring for three positions — managing director, technical lead, and staff assistant.  They are each posted on the Harvard jobs site.  Please apply!

We at the ONI have a new bulletin out today on Telus’s blocking of access to a web site set up by an employee labor union.  That’s bad enough, but our research shows that the ham-handed way they did so blocks an additional 766 unrelated sites.  An unfortunate reminder of the occasionally unchecked power of … Read more

The NYT has a terrific piece today on Chris Lydon and Mary McGrath’s new show, “Open Source from P.R.I.”  The article’s emphasis on the blogosphere’s participation in developing programs is exactly the point.   (Disclosure: I am on the Board of Directors of the non-profit that produces the show.)

Urs Gasser, having left us and taken up his new post as a prof at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, writes in about the newly proposed EU IPR enforcement directive.  (The proposal itself is here.) Prof. Dr. Gasser’s take-away: “Personally, I agree with the draft Directive’s objective to fight organized IP crimes and … Read more

Dave writes on podcatch: “It’s a wonderful thing! People in the community want the newcomers to podcastng to use their work, and help them do more. But so far they’ve taken the Atex approach, one-corporation doing everything-for-everyone. It can’t possibly compete with the structure the community has already built. I’m committed to making it work, … Read more

Congratulations to Ethan, Rebecca, Boris Anthony, Paul Frankstein, and the whole GV team on the relaunch of the GV site with its new look and functionality. 

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