The Web at 25: Looking Ahead to What Might Be

The Web turns 25 years old this year. What has changed since Sir Tim Berners-Lee, a scientist at CERN in Switzerland, released this gift to the world in 1989? The easier question to answer might be to ask what hasn’t changed. The widespread use of the Web in communities all around the world has touched … Read more

Post-web-cred thoughts

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

Jay Rosen's paper for web-cred conference; heat & light

Professor Jay Rosen of NYU offers his paper on credibility on the web, which we asked him to write in preparation for the conference on Blogging, Journalism and Credibility this coming Friday and Saturday.  There’s a cross-post on the conference web site that allows for comments as well. * * * My hope for this … Read more

Credibility on the web

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