The Boston Globe’s Glen Johnson reports today on a struggle between Gov. Dean and former campaign manager, Joe Trippi, over the loyalty of erstwhile members of Dean for America (yes, I know, “a beginning not an end…”).  My hope is that this struggle — if it’s real — does not get into a debate about…

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We’re delighted that David Weinberger will be a fellow at the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School this coming academic year.  His writing and leadership on the Internet & Society phenomenon puts him in the top rank of thinkers and do-ers in this space.  Very good news for our community at the Berkman Center.  I have…

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Here in Geneva, it’s still well before wake-up time in California, but Lawrence Lessig must know on some level already: I think that every single speaker at the ITU net governance event so far has invoked his work one way or another.  Mostly, the references are about separating governance of Net issues by layers of…

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I’m in Geneva, for the ITU’s workshop on Internet Governance.  It’s a post-WSIS affair.  Here’s the summary/background for my 15 minute presentation on Friday.  It’s based on a working paper I’ve co-written with a wonderful duo, David Johnson and Susan Crawford, called “The Accountable Net” (inspired by the last Aspen Institute Internet Policy Project meeting and the work…

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Jim Moore promises forthcoming “academic writing” on what happened at the Dean campaign and on the use of technology in politics, presumably.  Worth waiting for.

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The latest of Mary Bridges’ wonderful Berkman Briefings is up: on Prof. Lessig’s speech here in Cambridge, MA, last week.  An instant classic.

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A very cool piece by Paul Boutin on the presidential primary campaign and technology — including an extremely flattering reference to the Berkman weblogs movement (hey, thanks, Dave!).

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A big opinion handed down today in the anti-telemarketing struggle — with relevance, potentially, to the do not e-mail proposal related to spam.  The 10th Circuit overturned a lower court’s opinion to the contrary.  The CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 did not include a mandated “do not e-mail” list but required the FTC to go study…

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American Research Group has posted tonight its latest poll for the Wisconsin primary, with Gen. Clark not included.  Looks like it could be another rout.

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The terrific tandem — Mary Bridges and Ben Walker — have just released “The Gadget Factor,” a 12-minute audio piece on the impact of the gadget on the digital media debate.   This audio piece is the second in the series of audio briefings at the Berkman Center and is part of the Digital Media Project‘s…

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No surprise here: a report that the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 isn’t getting the job done.  Too early to declare defeat, I suppose, and thin evidence to date, but I maintain that this US federal law is highly unlikely to be the solution to the spam problem.  It will take technology standards/agreement + consumer action + lots…

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Dave Ferman writes for the Dallas Fort Worth Star Telegram about citizen bloggers and their grass-roots movement in Texas.  One blogger, Jim Maine, who writes about his school board and local other elected officials, puts the situation plainly: “The apathy in America is terrible — we should be ashamed.”  Mr. Maine, much to his credit, looks to be anything…

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