I came to the Berkman at Ten conference under doctor’s orders to keep my eyes closed. This leads to an unusual - for me, at least - approach to conference-going. I’m here in Ames Courtroom at Harvard Law School with a heavy blindfold on, sitting next to my friend Thomas Kriese, who’s telling me about the slides projected at the front of the room. …
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Reality by Rothko
http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/05/10/reality-by-rothko/You know that moment in the old movies when they take the bandage off the patient’s eye? He blinks once, twice and as his vision resolves, he sees the beautiful nurse smiling at him. That’s not how it happened for me. As the medical resident took the bandages off me, I saw nothing but a yellow cloud. …
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Why I’ll be ignoring you for the month of May
http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/05/05/why-ill-be-ignoring-you-for-the-month-of-may/My friend Andrew travels more than I do - which is a dubious sort of achievement - and with at least as much joy in his peregrinations. He tells me that one of his favorite moments is that instant where the boarding door closes, where you have to shut your laptop and power down your cellphone, and you’re irrevocably cut off from the world. …
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Glitchy Godwin
http://scratchpad.roaringshrimp.com/?p=95Polarization of discussion can be a problem in e-spaces, though reductio ad Hitlerum also means e-folks are able to poke fun at it, at least. Last month Ethan Zimmerman posted a superb set of essays on “Homophily, serendipity, xenophilia” [1, 2]). His premise is simple enough: “itâs possible to miss huge trends, changes and opportunities by talking solely to people who agree with you.” He frames “birds of a feather flock together
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TEDAfrica 2008 suspended, a temporary setback for South Africa
http://netucation.co.za/tedafrica-2008-suspended-a-temporary...at the beginning of the 21st century. And I agree wholeheartedly with him on this statement because never before has so many experts NOT politicians come together in support of Africa. There was a real sense of urgency among the speakers as the the aid vs investment debated heated up over the four days in Arusha. Anyway why is this a setback for South Africa? We need to shift the focus from all the crap from Eskom, crime, Jakob Zuma, Zimbabwe and more. TEDAfrica in Cape Town would have been a dream come true for
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Copyrightings
http://www.copyrightings.comto privacy and security; these are the solutions he hopes to see. Session 2 was a session led by John Palfrey discussing the implications for politics. Palfrey wonderfully tied together multiple topics in a succinct matter. He highlighted the work of Ethan Zuckerman, Beth Kolko and John Kelly. I've been a fan of Ethan's work for a long time. In addition to the terrific blog he writes, Ethan co-founded Global Voices which aggregates foreign language blogs to give the world a better view of what is happening around
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What the media in Bulgaria says and doesn’t say
http://blog.veni.com/?p=482Ethan suggested yesterday that I should write some of my reviews of the Bulgarian media in English. It makes sense, as the Bulgarians are already aware of the “news” created by the media, while this phenomenon remains quite unknown abroad.
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Reset e il futuro dei giornali
http://www.bookcafe.net/blog/blog.cfm?id=841Ci sono un sacco di cose. Per dire, la traduzione di questo articolo di Eric Alterman sulla fine della stampa per colpa del web. E' ricco di cose da imparare. Nello stesso dossier, De Biase e De Bortoli, Granieri e Andrew Keen, David Weinberger e Ethan Zuckermann. Alcuni pessimisti, altri ottimisti. [Stereo Typi] Detta cos??, mi sembra di essere finito in uno di quei giochi da settimana enigmistica tipo "trova l'intruso". Ma il dossier lo segnalo perch?? sono curioso di leggerlo io per primo.
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Kristine Lowe
http://kristinelowe.blogs.comthemselves exploring a freedom never before imagines: to indulge their curiosity, to debate, to disagree, to laugh at themselves, to compare visions, to learn, to create new art, new knowledge... or simply to communicate, as Global Voices co-founder Ethan Zuckerman's 'The history of digital community, in less than 7 minutes' (via Sambrook) so aptly shows we've been doing 'literally from the moment people started connecting computers to one another':
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Your grandchild: "Did people just sit there?"
http://kristinelowe.blogs.com/kristine_lowe/2008/05/your-gra...themselves exploring a freedom never before imagines: to indulge their curiosity, to debate, to disagree, to laugh at themselves, to compare visions, to learn, to create new art, new knowledge... or simply to communicate, as Global Voices co-founder Ethan Zuckerman's 'The history of digital community, in less than 7 minutes' (via Sambrook) so aptly shows we've been doing 'literally from the moment people started connecting computers to one another':
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Berkman@10 Roundup of Day 1
http://irevolution.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/berkman10-roundu...My dissertation question is whether repressive regimes will manage to impose an information blockade on sensitive communications or whether resistance groups will ultimately prevail, and why? John made references to Global Voices and asked Ethan Zuckerman to comment on the projects impact and continuing challenges. Ethan opined that the biggest challenge was not necessarily government censorship but rather that citizen journalism had yet to influence mainstream media in a concerted and significant way.
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New Yorker in DC
http://nykrindc.blogspot.comEyes closed at Berkman at Ten
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Zuckerman @ Berkman @ 10
http://hermenaut.org/2008/05/15/zuckerman-berkman-10/Micah Marshall will preside over the keynote lunch tomorrow. Most impressive to me is the fact that my friend, Berkman fellow Ethan Zuckerman, who's just had eye surgery, and has been forbidden by his doctor to leave the house or remove his blindfold, showed up at the event anyway. And -- having removed his blindfold -- he's blogging about it. [more after the jump]
