I’ve been thinking about how we can use our Blogs initiative to get serious debate going on topics that we care about.  One of my ideas is to set up, from time to time, online debates that put ideas coming out of the Berkman Center to the test — sort of a peer review via blogs.  The…

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I can’t believe that I didn’t get to talk to the famous Matt, who, it turns out, was at the Boston Public Library session on Freedom of Expression in the Digital Age on Thursday night.  I’m grateful that he blogged it.  Looks right to me. The event was part of the New Center’s Words on Fire…

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I met this morning with Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland,  former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and presently the founder of the Ethical Globalization Initiative in the office of Professor Charles Ogletree.  Professor Ogletree is one of the faculty members who oversee and lead the Berkman Center, famous for lots of things in…

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Boston Red Sox blog: great idea, pretty good content.  All semi- and fully-obsessed Red Sox fans should at least know about it.

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Greg Gatlin has a piece this morning on the FTC’s sweep to combat online auction fraud.

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Looks like the MPAA has won round one in Florida, despite the efforts of technologists to oppose the state’s S-DMCA bill.  Opponents are now turning to whether a “fix” can be enacted. 

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Via Dave, a contrarian piece on the BBC’s site says that it’s wasteful to ship second-hand PCs to Africa.  I’d be interested in the reaction of Timothy Anderson, who runs the enormously successful World Computer Exchange, which can get second-hand PCs from the US to developing countries for $50 per box.

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We here at the Berkman Center host fellows’ lunches, just about as often as we can.  It’s a chance to come together as a little community and hear about great work in our space, broadly defined, from people here and people coming through.  Russell Southwood, who publishes Balancing Act, is here today.  It’s the “best,…

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Ric Flaggert, who knows about these things: “That rumbling you heard in the distance was the PTO issuing “Harvard University” in Class 41 (Reg. No. 2699321), for  ‘Computer services, namely, providing a web site featuring information and links to other web sites regarding university admissions, academic and research programs, university athletic programs, university employment opportunities,…

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Prof. Nesson has written a mini trip-report about Trevor Rhone’s visit to the Harvard campus last week.  I was lucky to have the chance to spend time with Trevor on his visit.  He is a lovely, gentle, thoughtful, interesting man.  His reading of the Bellas Gate Boy on Friday evening was tremendously moving.  A one-man…

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Interesting announcement out of Apple today — interesting timing post-Grokster — reported in the Boston Globe.  PJ McNealy of Gartner|G2, our partner in digital media matters, is cited.

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About the Grokster & Verizon rulings, among other things.  Rhonda Schaffler is the host.

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