We’ve heard from a number of people about an uneasy (and unfounded) sense that something is happening with respect to the RSS 2.0 spec. Just by way of clarification, nothing has changed from the perspective of Harvard, which is the owner and trustee of the RSS 2.0 spec. To review the bidding, a few years … Read more
Today starts a three-day swing through the UK by those of us at the Berkman Center who work on issues related to Internet & democracy. * Today, we’re with our partners at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) with about 25 scholars and activists who work on e-Participation. The events officially kicked off with a public … Read more
Microsoft’s General Counsel Brad Smith returns to Harvard Law School to speak with students, staff, and faculty, hosted by the Berkman Center.
JD Lasica, who presented today at our Tuesday lunch series and the author of Darknet, is the first-ever guest blogger to write to the Berkman Center’s homepage.
If you haven’t heard Kaye Trammell (a prof of Mass Communications) on her dissertation topic — celebrity blogs — you have your chance later this week in NYC. Or check out the short-form on her own blog.
Podcasting is coming your way. And it’s got a brewing copyright problem locked inside, as Adam Curry muses. It should be resolvable, but troubling if not resolved up front, much like the overall copyright problem with RSS. Possibly of interest to those curious about this question: Bonneville v. Marybeth Peters, the RIAA, et al.
The Berkman Center is hosting a conference in December to consider, from a skeptical viewpoint, the impact of the Internet on politics. We’ve been down the road before of thinking that the Internet changes everything. That plainly wasn’t true with respect to commerce, nor is it true here with respect to politics. But internet … Read more
We’ve had the pleasure of the past couple of days of hosting Markus Kummer, the coordinator of the Executive Secretariat for the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) at the United Nations. Mr. Kummer has given us the chance to hear about his plans for the WGIG over the next several months (he expects the … Read more
In the online debate about citizen bloggers, journalists and the NH primary, Dave Winer has posted his reply to MSNBC‘s Jon Bonne. Also: it’s true: Dave Winer will be with us at the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School for another year. Resident fellows at the Berkman Center usually stay for only one academic year, but we’re … Read more
Jim Moore’s argument regarding a Second Superpower may have staying power.