The Open Net Initiative — a joint effort between the University of Toronto, the University of Cambridge, and several of us at the Berkman Center at HLS — today released a bulletin about the Internet content filtering practices in Iran.  “In total, we tested 1,076 unique web pages and were blocked at least once from…

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This week and last, the Campaign Institute is running a non-partisan training here on campus at Harvard for people who plan to go work on campaigns of various sorts.  Right now, Jerry Brown is speaking about his experiences over 30 years in politics.  Later today, I’ll do a session on using internet technologies in political…

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Jim Moore’s Passion of the Present offers two ideas of what one can do about the Sudan crisis: “There are many things we can do. Two come to mind immediately (please invent and share more!) The first is to do more research on the activities and interests of the Genocide Bloc nations in regard to…

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Dave Winer is asking for input about when the date should be for the third BloggerCon, for which planning is underway, to be held at Stanford.

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Tim Wu, guest blogging at Larry Lessig’s blog, has drawn a real-space discussion of where copyright will be in eight years into the blogspace.  Ed Felten has picked up the challenge.

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Susan Crawford, professor of law at Cardozo Law School, has taken a crack at 10 online principles that netizens care about.  There must be other attempts to do so that we could compare.  (Seth Finkelstein hasquickly weighed in with a comment that it “doesn’t work” to take this approach.  That does not suggest to me…

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The public convention blogs aggregator set up by Dave Winer crushed the competition on daypop and blogdex yesterday and today, reportedly with over 40,000 hits.  Not remotely surprising to those who believe that the future is in RSS.

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It’s the opening of convention week here in Boston.  For political junkies, this is nirvana.  The mood is very upbeat, the sun is shining, security is high but the traffic unbelievably light, and there are lots of places to buy your Kerry-Edwards buttons.  And the Red Sox even won last night. Jim Moore blogged a…

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It’s not a new idea, but it is a good one and bears repeating, by Susan Mernit, via Larry Lessig: news outlets ought to embed Creative Commons licenses in the newsfeeds that increasingly deliver their news.

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A week or so ago, Larry Harris and I wrote an op-ed for the Boston Globe about young Bostonians taking up the job of active citizenship.  Our piece was meant, in part, to celebrate the very large numbers of young people engaged in public service activities in Boston.  But we also sought to draw attention…

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The non-partisan Campaign Institute, which will train a new generation of campaign staffers, is holding its first two courses here in Cambridge, MA, in August.  They apparently have a few spots left.  The list of trainers and participating organizations looks first-rate.  It’s a “crash course in changing America.”  I like it already.

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The Chairman’s Report of last week’s ITU WSIS Thematic Meeting on Countering Spam, which is a summary of proceedings from the 3-day affair, is now posted to the ITU’s quite rich web site on spam.  The Chairman’s Report, officially by Robert Horton of Australia, is meant to reflect what was said at the meeting, rather than…

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