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• What if they stop clicking?

  
  ...My heart's in Accra — Authority: 632
  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: 632
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• Oh Farts! The Droid, the iPhone & the Lessig-Zittrain Thesis

  
  Technology Liberation Front — Authority: 582
  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 ...
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• Veterans Day: Heroes & Asterisks

  
  Josh Q. Public — Authority: 573
      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: 599
  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.) ...
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• ethanz blogs, well, me

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 582
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• David Weinberger on What Information Was [Audio]

  
  MediaBerkman — Authority: 120
  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: 120
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• Empirical Study of Global ICT Use and Democratic Tendency

  
  iRevolution — Authority: 416
  I recently co-authored a study for Harvard’s Berkmans Center on the impact of new Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on Democratic Tendency. The study was presented at the 3rd International Conference on ICT for Development ( ICTD2009 ) in Doha, Qatar, earlier this year. The study asks whether the ...
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• David Weinberger: what information was

  
  ...My heart's in Accra — Authority: 632
  There are many things I admire about my friend and colleague, David Weinberger : his intellectual curiosity, his generosity with his time and guidance, his sense of humor… One facet of David I most admire is his willingness to think in public. Most people who speak for a living (as David does, and as I aspire to ...
  5 days ago

• NH Supreme Court hears online journalism case

  
  Andy on the Road — Authority: 99
  Back in June, as an intern at the Berkman Center’s Cyberlaw Clinic , I worked with members of the Citizen Media Law Project and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in drafting an amicus curiae brief ( PDF ) in the case of The Mortgage Specialists, Inc. v. Implode-Explode Heavy Industries, Inc ...
  1 week ago

• Friday 5 – Switch Hitters

  
  Weller and Bryan's Sports Blog — Authority: 125
  After last week’s time off, I’m back with today’s Friday 5.  Since baseball season just ended and I’m not ready for it to be over, I’m dedicating today’s list to switch hitters.During my brief and generally forgettable baseball career, I toyed with the idea of switch hitting.  It lasted for a practice ...
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• Yochai Benkler responds to critics of the broadband survey

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 582
  Yochai Benkler, the project lead on the Berkman Center’s analytic survey of how broadband works around the world [ pdf ] responds to critics and questioners.
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• Radio Berkman 136: The Garden and the Net

  
  MediaBerkman — Authority: 120
  The “Walled Garden” is an oft-used metaphor to describe an area of the web that is somehow closed off – think AOL in the 90s, or any site that lives behind a paywall. To some, these areas of the net are exclusive avenues to brilliantly curated content. To others “Walled Gardens” are threats to the [...]
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• Shepard Fairey recruits Fisher, Palfrey and Stewart

  
  Andy on the Road — Authority: 99
  Sorry I’ve been away. With a law journal article in the works and exams coming up I expect things will be quiet here for a while. I wanted to break my silence to let you all know that Shepard Fairey – plaintiff and cross-claim defendant in the highly-public Fairey v. Associated Press (the Obama “Hope” ...
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• Ellen Goodman and Jake Shapiro on Redesigning public media for the 21st Century

  
  MediaBerkman — Authority: 120
  Ellen Goodman of Rutgers University School of Law and Jake Shapiro, Executive Director of the Public Radio Exchange (PRX), discuss public media’s role in providing public discourses, advancing democratic capabilities, and empowering publics to communicate and organize. The two investigate whether the United States ...
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• Ellen Goodman and Jake Shapiro on Redesigning public media for the 21st Century [AUDIO]

  
  MediaBerkman — Authority: 120
  Ellen Goodman of Rutgers University School of Law and Jake Shapiro, Executive Director of the Public Radio Exchange (PRX), discuss public media’s role in providing public discourses, advancing democratic capabilities, and empowering publics to communicate and organize. The two investigate whether the United States ...
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• Elizabeth Goodman on Walled Gardens: Opening the Discussion [Audio]

  
  MediaBerkman — Authority: 120
  “Walled gardens” is a common term for systems that limit the entrance and exit of certain kinds of data. It is a deceptively simple metaphor that relies on the existence of a shared set of assumptions about what gardens are, what walls are, and what it means to build and maintain them. In this talk, [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Elizabeth Goodman on Walled Gardens: Opening the Discussion

  
  MediaBerkman — Authority: 120
  “Walled gardens” is a common term for systems that limit the entrance and exit of certain kinds of data. It is a deceptively simple metaphor that relies on the existence of a shared set of assumptions about what gardens are, what walls are, and what it means to build and maintain them. In this talk, [...]
  2 weeks ago

• [Berkman] Elizabeth Goodman on walled gardens

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 582
  Elizabeth Goodman of UC Berkeley is giving a Berkman lunchtime talk on a project she’s just now beginning. It is, she says, “half-baked.” She’s going to compare walled gardens in the computer sense to the original referent of “walled garden” and experiences of community gardens which often are fenced off. ...
  2 weeks ago

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