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
So, true confessions: it took me a while, even with Dave and other true believers as fellows at the Berkman Center and us hosting the RSS 2.0 spec, to “get” RSS and why it was going to be (and now, already is) so powerful. I’ve been going through the same slightly slow process to “get” … Read more
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.
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!).
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
A very intriguing comment from Dan Bricklin on the Blogs at Harvard Law home page, noting that not a) not all bloggers are created equally and b) that bloggers may have some key natural advantages in covering a primary than ordinary reporters would: “Politicians will be more open to real voters debating them than a reporter who must … Read more
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 … Read more