While New York City has relatively good broadband competition, many other major U.S. metro areas are in Boston’s situation — including Minneapolis–St. Paul and Los Angeles. That lack of competition has made the Internet less resistant, according to Willow Brugh, a fellow at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society who works on mobilizing technology to respond to disasters.
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“They aren’t supposed to be operating in a way that would effectively be competitive with other commercial models,” said Jeffrey Hermes, deputy director of the Media Law Resource Center and former director of the now-defunct Digital Media Law Project at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society. “So the bottom line is you probably need to shift the economic base of your organization if you’re trying to get it ready for 501(c)(3) status.”
Dubbing 2015 the “Year of the Podcast,” panelists at a Berkman Center for Internet and Society lunch discussion pulled back the curtain on the history of the digital media form and discussed its future. Titled “State of the Podcast,” the panel is one of many events under the umbrella of HUBweek, a weeklong series sponsored by Harvard, MIT, The Boston Globe, and Massachusetts General Hospital.
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“Dangerous speech has preceded episodes of terrible intergroup violence, over and over in many different contexts,” said Susan Benesch, a faculty associate of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.
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Bruce Schneier, fellow at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society and author of “Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World” I think it’s posturing. It’s basically the same thing that the U.S. says, and the U.S. hacks foreign government and corporate networks all the time. The problem is that there aren’t any laws that protect foreign networks, and there aren’t any relevant international treaties that limit commercial espionage. So I wouldn’t expect China to be any less aggressive on the Internet than the U.S. is.
Source: Xi Jinping said he wants to stop Chinese hacking. Should we believe him? – The Washington Post
Zittrain’s digital street cred is as powerful as his law school position: He is also a professor of computer science at Harvard and a co-founder and director of the university’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Zittrain’s paper proposed the implementation of Perma.cc, a service that allows authors to submit their links to the service for archiving.
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“When you lose all basic communications in a disaster, people don’t care about watching YouTube, but they do want to be able to send short text messages and say, ‘I’m trapped in a building,’” said Matthew Pearl, an attorney affiliated with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University who has studied emergency-related communication tools. “The design and resilience of mesh networks allow you to do that quickly and with relative ease.”
Don’t feel too bad if you fell for it. There are perfectly legit reasons why you and lots of others have, according to one expert. There’s lack of tech savvy, a little laziness, and a bit of paranoia at play, says Rey Junco, a faculty associate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard. On top of that, everyone has a different level of “ego investment,” Junco said.
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In the wake of high-profile podcasts such as “Serial” and “Invisibilia,” the once obscure audio storytelling technique has moved to the mainstream.As the selection of podcasts on services like SoundCloud and iTunes continues to expand, the future for the medium looks bright, according to the panelists at the “State of the Podcast 2015” event hosted by Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society and HUBweek, co-founded by The Boston Globe.
“Domain names are run by people. There are all kinds of ways it could happen,” said Bruce Schneier, a fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. “Maybe someone at Google Domains said, ‘Oh my God! Look what we just did! We can’t do that.’”
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