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One of the few faculty members at Harvard who has been actively blogging, Michael Watkins, is “hanging up [his] gloves” as he transitions out of the university and on to a new part of his career.

This is big news: Westlaw now supports RSS.  This is an incremental move: it applies just to the WL “intraclips” service.  Strikes me as a no-brainer and a major step ahead of the competition.  Among other things, such adoption says to me: “we get it” when it comes to the future of distribution of information … Read more

Our OpenNet Initiative — a partnership with the University of Cambridge (Rafal Rohozinski), the University of Toronto (Ron Deibert, Nart Villeneuve, and others), and the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School (several of us, led by Jonathan Zittrain) — has released a new report on the imprecision of the Anonymizer-powered US International Broadcasting Bureau web surfing … Read more

Berkman Center fellow and Associate Director of the Watson Institute at Brown, Geoffrey Kirkman, has a not-so-secret talent: talking about baseball in the DR, home to A-Rod, Pedro, and many other current MLB greats.

You can now learn more than ever before about the inner workings of Google and why their IPO ought to raise $2.7 bn. in their S-1 (via findlaw).  Readers be warned: it’s 171 pages.  Lawyers be warned: it includes such unlawyerly statements as “Don’t be evil.”  Wondering who has how much stock?  See p. 84.  The BBC … Read more

When lawyers first discovered the Net, there was all kinds of talk about how it would transform the practice, and perhaps even the profession itself.  Surely the Net has wrought major changes in terms of efficiency gains, how transactions take place, how disputes (might be) resolved, the nature and extent of evidence, how trials are … Read more

I’m preparing for teaching a class on Monday on the question of whether we’re headed for an all-IP future.  It’s focused primarily on the decision-points that a policy-maker in a developing country might face today and in the medium-term future.  A first cut at notes are here.

A Think Tank has a small handful of obvious tools at its disposal.  First and foremost, there’s the Conference.  (Other tools include the White Paper; the Case Study; Testimony; Advice; Courses/Seminars/Online Offerings of Various Sorts; and a very few other things.) One of the learnings from BloggerCon II is that an “un-conference” can be very refreshing.  … Read more

My new all-time favorite blog post, via Dave (to whom huge thanks and congratulations are much in order).  I think that pulling off two major conferences in a single year as a fellow has got to be a Berkman record.  WK, CB, thanks for stepping up, and to so many Berkman(iacs) — past, present, and future — for coming out. … Read more

By Jack Balkin & Sanford Levinson, How to Win Cites and Influence People.  It’s actually just as relevant to the blogosphere as to the legal academy: “Friends are usually more than happy to cite you, especially if you offer to cite them in return.”