Professor Mary Wong at Internet & Society 2007
Professor Mary Wong of Franklin Pierce Law Center presents a summary of day one and looks ahead at Internet & Society 2007 on June 1.
Download the MP3 (time: 10:56).
June 6th, 2007
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Introduction and Welcome to Internet & Society 2007
Professor Charles Ogletree, Executive Director of The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice and Internet & Society 2007 Co-chair kicks off the conference with a special welcome from Professor Charles Nesson, Berkman Center for Internet & Society Founder and Internet & Society 2007 Co-chair on June 1.
Download the MP3 (time: 12:53).
June 6th, 2007
Nicholas Negroponte Keynote at Internet & Society 2007
Nicholas Negroponte, Founder and Chairman of One Laptop per Child, presents the keynote address at this year’s Internet & Society conference, “University – Knowledge Beyond Authority” on May 31.
Download the MP3 (time: 48:32).
1 comment June 6th, 2007
Everything is Miscellaneous Book Release Party
Everything is Miscellaneous
by David Weinberger
Book Release Party
Monday, April 30
Berkman Center for Internet & Society faculty, fellows and community join David Weinberger to celebrate the release of his book Everything is Miscellaneous through Times Books.
Download the MP3 (time: 1:05:25).
David is a co-author of the national best-seller The Cluetrain Manifesto, has written for Wired, Salon, USA Today, and The Guardian, and in 2004, served as Senior Internet Advisor to the Howard Dean Campaign.
About The Book
For 2,500 years we’ve used the same principles for organizing information, ideas and knowledge that we use for putting away our laundry: Everything has its place, things are put with other things like it, it’s all neat and tidy. But as we move information on line, it no longer has to share the limits on the physical. We are rapidly inventing new principles of order, moving from newspapers to blogs, from encyclopedias to Wikipedia, from librarians to taggers. In fact, it turns out that the best way to manage digital information is *not* to have experts filter and sort it before hand, but to make a huge miscellaneous pile of it, include everything, and allow users to sort and organize it. This opens up new opportunities, but it fundamentally changes the nature of authority across all of our major institutions, including business, the media, science, education and government.
2 comments June 4th, 2007
OpenNet Initiative Conference – Video Part IV
This afternoon segment of the OpenNet Initiative conference allowed attendees to have an open discussion following their “breakout sessions” and was facilitated by Berkman Center Executive Director John Palfrey and Berkman Co-Founder Professor Jonathan Zittrain. From general thoughts on the product of the OpenNet Initiative’s study, to Q & A with the principle investigators, it served as a wonderful opportunity to discuss the past and frame the future of the project.
Runtime: 1:01:08, size: 320×240, 31MB, QuickTime .MP4, H.264 codec
May 26th, 2007
OpenNet Initiative Conference – Video Part III
This afternoon segment of the OpenNet Initiative conference allowed attendees to have an open discussion following their “breakout sessions” and was facilitated by Berkman Center Executive Director John Palfrey (above right) and Berkman Co-Founder Professor Jonathan Zittrain (above left). From general thoughts on the product of the OpenNet Initiative’s study, to Q & A with the principle investigators, it served as a wonderful opportunity to discuss the past and frame the future of the project.
Runtime: 1:01:08, size: 320×240, 186MB, QuickTime .MP4, H.264 codec
May 26th, 2007
OpenNet Initiative Conference – Video Part II
Kicking off the OpenNet Initiative’s first public conference, Jonathan Zittrain provides a great introduction to the project, while Principal Investigator Ron Diebert, Citizen Lab’s Nart Villenuve, and ONI Research Director Rob Faris present their findings on the 41 countries studied and the methods used to achieve those findings. The floor then opens to questions, where the presenters have the opportunity to clarify and elaborate on their work.
Runtime: 49:26, size: 320×240, 151MB, QuickTime .MP4, H.264 codec
May 26th, 2007
OpenNet Initiative Conference – Video Part I
Kicking off the OpenNet Initiative’s first public conference, Jonathan Zittrain (above) provides a great introduction to the project, while Principal Investigator Ron Diebert, Citizen Lab’s Nart Villenuve, and ONI Research Director Rob Faris present their findings on the 41 countries studied and the methods used to achieve those findings. The floor then opens to questions, where the presenters have the opportunity to clarify and elaborate on their work.
Runtime: 1:01:24, size: 320×240, 187MB, QuickTime .MP4, H.264 codec
3 comments May 26th, 2007
An Open Source Marriage of Audio, Music, and Radio
New Jersey freeform radio station WFMU has been a leader in non-commercial radio’s use of web technologies and social media. General Manager Ken Freedman joined us at the Berkman Center on May 9 to discuss WFMU’s latest project, an open source audio library to be known as the Free Music Archive.
1 comment May 23rd, 2007
Gene Koo on New Skills, New Learning
At the end of March, the Berkman Center celebrated the release of Gene Koo’s study on the relation between the development of legal education and the technology required for modern-day practice, entitled: New Skills, New Learning: Legal Education and the Promise of Technology.This week at the Berkman Center, Gene presented his findings during the weekly Luncheon Series and sought to identify concrete steps that can be taken to help students transition to successful legal careers.
Gene specifically cited both the recent Carnegie study and the extensive MacCrate Report as additional resources for determining the most effective steps for the future. During the lunch, questions raised were primarily in regards to how best to instill values important to the practice of law, how to incorporate the technology without diminishing interpersonal skills, and why this need is specific to the law school education as opposed to other professional level education.
Runtime: 1:01:08, size: 320×240, 142MB, QuickTime .MOV, H.264 codec
6 comments May 23rd, 2007
