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• WGBH and public radio’s future

  
  Doc Searls Weblog — Authority: 612
  @robpatrob ( Robert Paterson ) asks (responding to this tweet and this post ) “ Why would GBH line up against BUR? Why have a war between 2 Pub stations in same city?” (In this tweet and this one , Dan Kennedy asks pretty much the same thing.) The short answer is, Because it wouldn’t be a war. ...
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• Berkman Broadband Study

  
  Christopher Herot's Weblog — Authority: 116
  The comment period is closed for the Harvard Berkman broadband study for the FCC and it does seem that the study was, as the authors state ,  "a mini stimulus act for telecommunications lawyers and consultants." The 232 page document  describes in quite some detail how US compares to the rest of the world in ...
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• Free legal assistance for bloggers and online media creators

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 889
  The Online Media Legal Network is a project from Harvards cyberlaw center the Berkman Clinic that works with partners to hook up bloggers and other creates who are under legal threat with lawyers who can help them solve their problems. The Online Media Legal Network (OMLN) is a network of law firms, law school ...
  6 days ago

• From compassion to action, from action to knowledge

  
  ...My heart's in Accra — Authority: 592
  I’ve opened a lot of lectures lately – presentations about our Media Cloud research at Berkman – by complaining about the New York Times’s Africa coverage. I cite the fact that Japan tends to average roughly 8-10 times as many mentions in the paper of record than Nigeria in any given year, which is odd, ...
  6 days ago

• Need a lawyer? New network gives web publishers a line of defense

  
  Nieman Journalism Lab — Authority: 689
  If you’ve gone the entrepreneurial route you know that first flush of enthusiasm often dampens when nitty-gritty decisions need to be made. There’s accounting, taxes, incorporation, insurance — and that’s the clear stuff. Toss in murky issues around trademark and branding and it’s easy to see how dreams of ...
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• Radio Berkman 137: Cory Doctorow – In Defense of ©

  
  MediaBerkman — Authority: 519
  Is the fate of books a forgone conclusion? Will they just continue to make their way out of print and into digital form? This week’s guest, author Cory Doctorow, suggests that we might want to keep books in print for a little while longer. Not just out of nostalgia – but actually to protect the [...]
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• Son of COPA?: H.R. 4059, “The Online Age Verification and Child Safety Act”

  
  Technology Liberation Front — Authority: 549
  Rep. Bart Stupak , (D-MI) recently introduced the ‘‘ Online Age Verification and Child Safety Act ’’ (H.R. 4059), which would require mandatory online age verification for “any pornographic website accessible by any computer located within the United States to display any pornographic material, including ...
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• Nathan Eagle on Big Data, Global Development, and Complex Social Systems [Audio]

  
  MediaBerkman — Authority: 519
  Nathan Eagle, Omidyar Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute, will discuss a selection of projects arising from collaborations that involve inferring behavioral dynamics on a broad spectrum of scales; from risky behavior in a group of MIT freshman to population-level behavioral signatures, including cholera outbreaks in ...
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• Nathan Eagle on Big Data, Global Development, and Complex Social Systems

  
  MediaBerkman — Authority: 519
  Nathan Eagle, Omidyar Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute, will discuss a selection of projects arising from collaborations that involve inferring behavioral dynamics on a broad spectrum of scales; from risky behavior in a group of MIT freshman to population-level behavioral signatures, including cholera outbreaks in ...
  1 week ago

• Samuel Bowles introduces Kudunomics

  
  ...My heart's in Accra — Authority: 592
  Warning! Professor Bowles’s lecture was rich in economic jargon, and I’m not an economist. And it had an unusally high idea density. It’s quite possible that I missed large swaths of what he was saying and misinterpreted what he did say. If something here seems obviously wrong, please use the comments section to ...
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• Footprints in the Snow: Astros

  
  Back Porch FanHouse — Authority: 174
  by Pat Lackey Filed under: Astros , NL Central Footprints in the Snow is FanHouses look at the paths to be forged by MLB teams this winter as they look ahead to 2010. After hanging in contention until early August, the Astros bottomed out with a 23-36 finish in the seasons final two months. That culminated ...
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• Swelling ground

  
  Doc Searls Weblog — Authority: 612
  Two posts worth noting over at the ProjectVRM blog . The first is Intention Economy Traction , which riffs off David Gillespie ’s illustrative and wise 263-slide narrative Digital Strangelove (or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Internet) . Both of us see The Intention Economy as pretty much ...
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• What if they stop clicking?

  
  ...My heart's in Accra — Authority: 592
  Who pays for content and services on the internet? My friend Bo Peabody thinks we should be asking not just whether ad-supported journalism is feasible , but whether ad-supported social networks will work. In a Washington Post op-ed titled “ Twitter.org? “, Bo leverages his experience founding and running ...
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• Help us find some language data

  
  ...My heart's in Accra — Authority: 592
  My colleague Hal Roberts has been hard at work on a fascinating research question: where in the world are the websites we pay attention to? It’s an important question for his work on surveillance – if most of the popular sites for Chinese audiences are hosted in mainland China (they are), then surveillance ...
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• Oh Farts! The Droid, the iPhone & the Lessig-Zittrain Thesis

  
  Technology Liberation Front — Authority: 549
  Seems like everywhere I turn someone is gushing about their new Droid phone, including my TLF colleagues Berin Szoka, Braden Cox, and Ryan Radia, who all had great fun rubbing their new toys in my nose over the past couple of days. And why not, it’s a very cool little device.  It makes my HTC Touch seems ...
  2 weeks ago

• Veterans Day: Heroes & Asterisks

  
  Josh Q. Public — Authority: 560
      I am a patriot, and I love my country.  Because my country is all I know.  -Pearl Jam Public Service Announcement :  OK, here we go!  What’s crack-a-lacking sports fans?  Happy Veteran’s Day .  From the Halls of Montezuma.  To the shores of Tripoli.  We will fight our country’s ...
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• Beyond Social Media

  
  Doc Searls Weblog — Authority: 612
  Consider the possibility that “social media” is a crock. Or at least bear with that thought through Defrag , which takes place in Denver over today and Thursday, and for which the word “social” appears seventeen times in the agenda . (Perspective: “cloud” appears three times, and “leverage” twice.) ...
  2 weeks ago

• ethanz blogs, well, me

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 603
  I’ve been honored with one of Ethan Zuckerman’s incredible liveblog postings . I gave a 45 min talk at the Berkman Center yesterday. I spoke quickly, waved my hands a lot, and spewed. [Rough draft here .] Even so, Ethan was able to commit an amazing act of streaming journalism, with very few places where I ...
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• David Weinberger on What Information Was [Audio]

  
  MediaBerkman — Authority: 519
  Berkman Fellow David Weinberger investigates the origin of modern “information”, trying to understand what about it led us to embrace it as the dominant–paradigmatic–way of understanding ourselves and our world. David Weinberger will present an informal sketch of a direction, suggesting that we leaped into ...
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• David Weinberger on What Information Was

  
  MediaBerkman — Authority: 519
  Berkman Fellow David Weinberger investigates the origin of modern “information”, trying to understand what about it led us to embrace it as the dominant–paradigmatic–way of understanding ourselves and our world. David Weinberger will present an informal sketch of a direction, suggesting that we leaped into ...
  2 weeks ago

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