Kaye Trammell on the proper aspiration of the Internet researcher: “We should work not just to get published and define or classify a medium. Instead, we should work to add to the medium — to add to society’s understanding of it.”  Straight out of the Berkman Center mission statement.  A perfect reason why we should be involved in…

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At long last, Andrew McLaughlin has a weblog.  Such good news.  Not suprisingly, he’s out of the gate with a real gusto.  His post of today: on VoIP (Voice-over-Internet- Protocol), entitled, “Judge Davis Gets it: The Internet is not a Telephone.”  Andrew is first-among-equals of a group of us team-teaching a class called Digital Democracy, which,…

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On Wednesday night, HLS feted Prof. William W. (“Terry”) Fisher III as he received the Hale and Dorr Intellectual Property chair.  It was an exceptional event: a standing-room-only crowd in Austin East and a lecture, prompted by Dean Elena Kagan’s inauguration of a new-to-HLS-but-nonetheless-venerable tradition, on the state of the field of the freshly-chaired professor.  The…

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The copyfighter has a terrific review of several of the new music services launching, it seems, every day.  Derek is one of the people leading the charge at the Berkman Center in assessing new models, like iTunes, as part of the Digital Media in Cyberspace project.

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Next week, on Tuesday, October 21, 2003, the Berkman Center is pleased to host Yossi Vardi, Principal of International Technologies Ventures and one of Israel’s leading venture capitalists, for his speech at Harvard Law School.  Mr. Vardi is widely regarded as a leading thinker about the role of technology in society.  His lecture will be held…

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Joseph Savrimuthu of the Liverpool Law School has a post that picks up on our discussion in Cyberlaw and the Global Economy of jurisdiction/power/brand in the global economy.  He concludes: “Those who characterise the jurisdictional issues purely in terms of notions of judicial propriety, comity could be missing something of a phenomenon – as we move from the age of gunboats to…

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The latest from JZ and Ben Edelman: a critical and timely analysis of the SiteFinder/VeriSign business.

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I can’t vouch for the results or methodology, but there’s a study from Perseus on how many blogs (they say 4.12 MM), who’s starting them, and what their age/gender is.  The most striking finding to me: 44% women, 56% men.  I’d be interested in a side-by-side comparison to other forms of participation in computing.

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Prof. Jerry Kang, on the faculty of law at UCLA full-time and a Visiting Professor this year at HLS (check out his CivPro class), is focused on the problems raised by pervasive computing, which he thinks of as convergence of ubiqutous, embedded and animated.  Prof. Kang calls it “PerC.”  He’s brought his research to the Berkman…

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Huge appreciation to the team that made BloggerCon such an apparent success (I was traveling, so I sadly experienced it via webcast and blog reports only) over the past few days: of course Dave Winer, the host, leader and inspiration; Wendy Koslow, the conference coordinator and rather fine blogger herself; the local host committee; the scores…

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We have a fun lunch as part of the Berkman speaker series today: Karen Coppock, Urs Gasser, and Nimrod Koslovski, each of whom participated in the OII’s summer programme, are presenting on their OII experience.  Some of the key strengths: diversity of participants (geographically and in terms of subject matter); and Victoria Nash and other staff and faculty, they…

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You may well recognize at least some part of yourself in this post from Civil Procedure about the ritual of the performance review at the Large Law Firm.  Of course, it doesn’t always go the way she describes, but so many elements of her reaction to the meeting sounded familiar to me — either as sentiments I held at that…

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