It’s been a long time since I sat down to write a blog post like this. Why did I open my computer this morning and log in to WordPress? Somewhat to my surprise, a few people who saw I had been to Delhi, India, for the AI Impact Summit asked me if I would report … Read more
Since the firestorm over RSS and copyright in January, I’ve been talking to a lot of people — those who publish blogs and mainstream media, those who aggregate online sources, those who worry over these things in the legal profession — about the strange place we find ourselves as an online community. There’s still a … Read more
“The revolution is in the mini-disk,” says Daoud Kuttab. Fresh after web-cred, we’ve got the enormous pleasure of Kuttab, a journalist and founder of Ammannet (Jordan), as our Berkman luncheon series speaker today. He is talking about running a web- and terrestrial radio operation from Jordan. It’s an extraordinary story. His news operation covers the … Read more
1.0 What have we learned at the Blogging, Journalism and Credibility gathering? We started this event — and an associated little firestorm — by broaching the topic of credibility on the web. It was something, we thought, that both journalists and bloggers ought to have a role in working on. Over the past two days … Read more
Red Herring’s Mitch Ratcliffe responds to Jay Rosen’s piece (“Bloggers vs. Journalists is Over”) in advance of our conference on web credibility: “Bloggers are beating the crap out of journalists, because bloggers are giving away what writers used to be paid to produce. That doesn’t mean bloggers are going to win the market, because there … Read more
It seems as though there is some misunderstanding about an event that we are co-hosting on January 21 and 22, 2005, on the topic of credibility on the web. The event is called “Blogging, Journalism, and Credibility: Battleground and Common Ground” and is co-hosted by us at the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School, the … Read more
A very cool piece by Paul Boutin on the presidential primary campaign and technology — including an extremely flattering reference to the Berkman weblogs movement (hey, thanks, Dave Winer!).