Christopher Lydon’s new radio series debuted on WGBH in Boston this weekend and hit lots of other media markets across the country through PRI distribution.  It’s a fantastic, globally-focused, wide-ranging series.  He and his crack team, led by Mary McGrath, have also taken to the Net with real commitment to understanding and using the tech. …

Read more..

Charles Ogletree, Johnnie Cochran and other leading litigators are in the midst of a campaign to get reparations payments going.  It will be interesting to see how juries or other decision makers will quantify any harms they may hold to have occurred (seems like there’s little debate that the bad things happened; just questions of how…

Read more..

Lewis Hyde — a professor at Kenyon College, MacArthur fellow, Berkman fellow, author of The Gift among other books — was here at for a lunchtime presentation on his work on the Commons.  Prof. Jamie Boyle of Duke Law School showed up, too, as did former Berkman Center ED Eric Saltzman.  As a writer and not…

Read more..

Dave starts off across the country today.  Good news for us.

Read more..

The Boston Herald ran a nice piece this morning on Dave Winer’s fellowship to the Berkman Center and on our blogging initiative that he’s heading up.  I liked that Tom Walsh, the reporter, focused on the extent to which we’re aiming to help break down barriers at the university between the schools and the research…

Read more..

For those who are graduate students in something related to ICTs, there’s a cool program starting this summer at Oxford.  In the school of full disclosure, the Berkman Center at HLS is a co-sponsor, as we’re convinced that the Oxford Internet Institute is up to something very interesting with this 25-person, two-week course.

Read more..

Berkman Student Fellow Ben Edelman offers this (and more) about what he heard during yesterday’s United States S Ct proceedings regarding the challenge to CIPA and related filtering laws: “The government’s most successful argument yesterday seemed to be that, they allege, libraries and librarians have long made decisions as to which books to obtain and which to exclude —…

Read more..

One of the things that bothers me about US Internet law and policy is the various definitions of “ISP” in law and policy (compare DMCA to CDA, e.g.).  Even within the DMCA there is discrepancy.  It will be interesting to see how this case impacts the ISP liability regime — interesting because of the facts…

Read more..

I’m thinking through how we might use a blog interface in a class I’ll be teaching this coming fall (Cyberlaw and the Global Economy, it’s called).  Among others, we got an interesting e-mail from the U of T with this example, which is intriguing.  I’d be interested in other examples of specific incarnations of blogs…

Read more..

I’m convinced that the role of the evangelist is essential to the success of our effort to get blogs into use as far and as wide at Harvard as possible.  The technology, its effectiveness, and the experience will all speak for themselves, but there’s got to be someone to make the pitch and get people excited about…

Read more..