Thanks to many who commented, we’ve made some changes to the BloggerCon model.  The highlights, as you may have noted, are that 1) we’ll give away at least 25 spots randomly on September 1 to those who have signed up to be on the list of possible “scholarship” recipients and 2) we’re making the BoF…

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I’m not sure there’s ever been a conference at the Berkman Center that has received so much attention as BloggerCon has two months before it’s actually happening.  It’s quite flattering in its way.  And we’ve been delighted by the number of people who’ve signed up in the first few days of registration.  Not all of the…

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Berkman fellow Ethan Zuckerman, founder of Geekcorps and former CTO of Tripod, has published a web presence and paper in the new Berkman Publication Series that tracks the attention paid by certain news media to different parts of the world.  His quantitative tools crank out graphic renderings that are intriguing and fun; the project gets at a critical aspect…

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Jon Bonne writes about a morning in high school, the Nobelist Joseph Brodsky, and unfiltered cigarettes.  (Do you believe in the serial comma?  I’ve never made up my mind).

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Tim Bray is a very smart man.  If I accomplish nearly so much as he has in my career, I’ll be proud of what I’ve done. Yet I find myself in a disagreement with him.  The gist of it is whether personalities are the story in the “Great RSS War of 2003.”  I have no interest…

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In picking up a thread from my Oxford Internet Institute experience recently and Seth Finkelstein’s blog, here’s a reply from Ed Felten to OII resident fellow Peter Davies.  It’s searing, and heartfelt.  Davies and I disagreed at a session last week about the Felten v. RIAA case and the propriety of the DMCA’s provision against…

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Contest just announced: Win fun free things and help a good cause by creating a 2-minute moving image about Creative Commons’ mission. 

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News.com has covered, at least three different times, the topic of the transfer of the RSS 2.0 spec from UserLand to the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, and its subsequent re-release to the public via a Creative Commons license.  The third of those pieces is now running, with a heavy focus…

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Berkman affiliate, and recent graduate of Harvard Law School’s LLM program, Urs Gasser, is presenting on his promising work on Information Quality.  This coming year, he will be a Visiting Scholar at HLS, pursuing this research with Prof. Fisher, and hopefully will be working extensively with the Berkman Center as well. He recommends a book by…

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Kaye Trammell, a soon-to-be Ph.D. in mass communications from the University of Florida, is working on a paper on “celeblogs,” (did she just coin that term?) or blogs by celebrities.  Will Wheaton, Moby, Jeff Bridges, Mariah Carey, Melanie Griffith, Adam Curry, No Doubt, RuPaul, many others are in her sights (sites?).  (Will Wheaton, BTW, has an audio…

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First session: we explored five scenarios for the future of copyright, built from Prof. Terry Fisher’s work and the subject of our ongoing research with Gartner|G2.  It was a spirited discussion, in which the graduate students here posed as parliamentarians.  Their job was to determine what types of further information they’d need to make a decision as…

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We’ve got representatives from Cisco (UK) and Freeserve here at the Oxford Internet Institute’s summer programme today to talk about how collaboration can and should work between industry and academics.  It’s a topic that we’ve thought a lot about at the Berkman Center, as we see such partnerships as holding out substantial promise.  For instance, we’ve worked closely with…

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