In my previous job (at Andover), I created a list of a few books every term that we would offer to the faculty as “community reads” on what we called the Head of School’s Bookshelf. We set up a bookshelf in the HOS office and distributed as many copies as faculty would like to read. … Read more
Yale Law School Prof. Yochai Benkler is here at Berkman for the day as part of his book tour for The Wealth of Networks. At Fellows’ hour, this discussion is prompted by a back-and-forth about whether Cass Sunstein was right in his famous Republic.com argument (about the Daily Me). David Weinberger took issue with the … Read more
The report of the hearing, for which I’ve submitted written testimony for the record today, in the United States House of Representatives Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and International Operations and Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, is here.
Today in “Internet, Law and Politics,” a course at HLS, students are debating whether or not the Howard Dean Campaign’s online campaigning activities changed campaigning for ever. The basic question: has a new frontier been opened in American politics — that a campaign must have a digital strategy in order to succeed? One side has posted here and … Read more
Always worth listening to, David Weinberger strikes me as particularly dead-on in his post of this evening about the blogging and ethics debate that has raged this weekend. There are many aspects of what’s happened in the past few days — loosely swirling around a conference that hasn’t happened yet and around a “disclosure” that … Read more