I’ve been pleased to see that people have continued to keep the super-DMCA story alive.  Slashdot has a thread on the PhD thesis that was moved abroad to the Netherlands to avoid potential DMCA liability (for Massachusetts, with more colleges per square than Irish pubs — well, not quite, but still — such transfers could be quite…

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This afternoon, please join us from 4:00 – 5:30 at the IOP’s Faculty Dining Room to discuss virtual worlds with there.com founder, Will Harvey.  See you there!

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Hooray for Hiawatha Bray.

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We are delighted today to have Dr Victoria Nash of the Oxford Internet Institute with us at the Berkman Center.  The OII is hosting a very interesting summer doctoral programme and has lots of terrific work underway.  We’re interested particularly in the summer programme, as it suggests a great way to create a community of…

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Prediction: the next powerful, unifying theory of cyberlaw will come from Jonathan Zittrain.  Here’s a snippet that hints at what it’ll contain.  Thanks to Dave for coaxing JZ to post it to the blogspace.  (This may also be historic in the sense that it might be JZ’s first public blog posting…).

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I may just be late getting to this party, but has anyone noticed that Gary Hart not only has a blog, but he’s soliciting contributions as he “explores a run for the presidency“?

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Jon Udell has posted his proposed topic for the Open Source Content Management conference next month: “All you need to know about content management, you learned in kindergarten.”  If widescale adoption of Content Management systems is a goal, then I wonder if the term “Content Management” is might sound too complicated or techie for low-tech users or managers…

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JZ this morning regarding Google’s power and responsibility in the New York Times: “They’re the traffic cop at the main intersection of the information society.  They have an awesome responsibility.”  Given how regulated some Net entities are — like cable companies, all manner of telecomms providers, ICANN — it’s remarkable how relatively unregulated Google and…

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I suppose that the DMCA is here to stay — at least until the Congress comes to its senses.  We have keep talking about how to deal with it.  The university setting offers an interesting case-study in how to live with the law. 

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Harvard College Dean Harry Lewis puts student file-swappers on notice.  The DMCA puts the college in a very dicey spot.

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Rumor has it that default RSS feeds are getting (cc)ed.  Userland, Movable Type, possibly Blogger post-google-acquisition.  Terra-Lycos, google, LiveJournal, others offering blogs to the masses, are you in?

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The sheer volume of the news about the Iraq war is overwhelming.  It used to be that I thought that the news media shuffled through what was important to read and then presented it manageably.  Now I need some way to manage all the news sources.  (No, thanks, google, not that way).  It’s sort of like…

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