Berkman Center for Internet & Society

The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge

Doc Searls

Whether your interest is in preserving Internet freedom and opportunity, changing the economic power structure, new challenges for cyberlaw, or just turning the tables on privacy-violating business models and practices, there will be plenty to hear and discuss at Doc Searls' talk, "The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge" — also the title of his new book from Harvard Business Review Press. The book reports on progress by dozens of companies and development projects fostered by ProjectVRM, which Doc launched at the Berkman Center in 2006.

Berkman Luncheon Series

Watch me play: Live streaming, computer games, and the future of spectatorship

T.L. Taylor, Center for Computer Games Research, IT University of Copenhagen

T.L. Taylor presents on when gaming meets live-streaming, the future of spectatorship, and critical issues that arise (revenue, IP, governance).

Interop: The Promise and Perils of Highly Interconnected Systems

John Palfrey and Urs Gasser

John Palfrey and Urs Gasser discussed their new book on Interoperability book and its themes.

Berkman Luncheon Series

Making large volunteer-driven projects sustainable. Lessons learned from Drupal

Dries Buytaert, original creator and project lead of Drupal

In this talk, Dries shares his experiences on how he grew the Drupal community from just one person to over 800,000 members over the past 10 years.

Berkman Luncheon Series

A Public Right to Hear and Press Freedom in an Age of Networked Journalism

Mike Ananny, Berkman Center Fellow

What does a public right to hear mean in networked environments and why does it matter? In this talk I’ll describe how a public right to hear has historically and implicitly underpinned the U.S. press’s claims to freedom and, more fundamentally, what we want democracy to be.