Many regulars to the world of intellectual property in cyberspace have been reading Donna Wentworth’s wonderful blog, Copyfight, over the past year or more.  Copyfight initially launched, thanks to Hylton Jolliffe and others, as part of Corante.com, where Donna thrived as a blogger.  Copyfight has played a critical role in getting word out about the…

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I posted a question to two projects on H2O: “1) Weblogs (“blogs”) are frivolous: fun, addictive, cool, but not serious tools for use by academics, lawyers and the like.  Blogs will be forgotten in a few years.  Moreover, they don’t tell us much about speech in cyberspace.  We shouldn’t have included blogs in this study group.…

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Join us this afternoon (Monday, April 21, 2003 — Marathon Day & Patriot’s Day here in Boston — from 4:00 – 5:30 in the Faculty Dining Room, Institute of Politics, Kennedy School of Government) at our final study group session of the Spring.  It’s on hacktivism, with special guest Anita Ramasastry of the University of…

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Wendy Seltzer is right that a one-year shut-off of network access is arbitrary — and perhaps too harsh — a penalty for students.  It’s not written into the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that thou shalt cut off students from the Net for one year if they are repeat offenders of network policies (or federal law,…

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Where do you go from here?  Jim Moore argues that his Second Superpower term has been played out.  Maybe so.  But Jim’s idea — that there’s an emergent force that opposes pure American global hegemony, and that it uses the Web in part as an organizing tool — no doubt still has resonance in a…

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The Empowered Classroom suggests that Jim’s piece on the Second Superpower has the makings of a second Common Sense.

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So, it turns out Rick Klau’s comment on Prof. Bailyn’s pamphleteering statements in Ideological Origins gets at something that Dan Bricklin talked about two years ago.  And Will Cox happened to recall, telling Rick about Dan’s previous comment.  On one level, this back and forth is mundane, I suppose.  But it’s also fascinating.  I’m constantly…

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Perhaps the most famous living American historian, Bernard Bailyn, has weighed in on blogging — sort of.  Thanks to Rick Klau for pointing out quotes from Prof. Bailyn from “Ideological Origins,” the definitive history of the intellectual tradition and philosophies that led up to the American Revolution.  Rick’s point is that Bailyn could just as easily…

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Researchers at the Berkman Center — JZ and Ben Edelman — had a very productive study underway looking at how China and other states filter Net traffic to, from and within the country.  Paul Festa of CNET writes today about the Voice of America commissioning software that will get around the Great Firewall using a circumvention web…

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Live notes from the TIE seminar, April 16, 2003, 12:00 – 2:00 p.m.: Hal, who’s a wonderful presenter, is describing why at the Berkman Center we’re writing code — open source educational code, to be precise, free and open and hosted at the Berkman Center, for starters.  How did we get there?  Mainly, the story is the…

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Thanks to Stone Wiske and her friends, we’re presenting (*right now*, incidentally) at the Harvard Ed School about our use of technology and teaching.  Talking blogs now, then H2O hereafter.  Educators, here on the 3rd floor of Gutman in particular, are seriously focused on use of these technologies in their classrooms.  We’re hearing more and…

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Veteran journalist and newbie blogger Christopher Lydon is opening the lines to his studio to the blogging community in particular for his live, nation-wide show next Sunday evening.  E-mail them, post to his blog, tell them which guests to interview, call in.  It’s the finale of a 7-part series on the Web and on radio, distributed…

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