Two follow-ups to Berlind Tuesday at Berkman

For those who missed it, David Berlind submitted to an interview — how’s that for being a good sport when the tables are turned! — for the Berkman homepage blog.  Here’s a [snip]: Question: You mentioned in today’s luncheon series that you had an idea for a transparent workflow for journalists, but that the software … Read more

David Berlind at the Berkman Center

We’ve got David Berlind, executive editor of ZDNet here as part of our Tuesday luncheon series at the Berkman Center today.  We’re hoping to rope him into JZ’s cyberlaw class (to talk ODF, SCO, and the like) and also for the fellows’ meeting this afternoon, too.  His 75-minute tour-de-force on a range of issues from … Read more

Internet and Democracy 2005 (IS2K5): Day 2

Today we’re 50 miles south of Oxford, in London, near Paddington, for a small-group session on Internet, filtering, blogging, and human rights.  It’s amazing group that brings some of the global voices crowd — gathered here for GV II tomorrow — together with human rights activists and technologists from the OpenNet Initiative.  The idea is … Read more

Richard Clayton comes to Berkman to talk blocking

Richard Clayton of the University of Cambridge’s computer science labs is here with us today at the Berkman Center as a participant in our luncheon series.  He describes his scholarly efforts focused on BT (Britain’s largest telecommunications provider) and its blocking program: “I’ve been looking at BT’s CleanFeed system (it’s [sic] proper name is the … Read more