Berkman Buzz, week of September 17

BERKMAN BUZZ: A look at the past week's online Berkman conversations
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School
Week of September 17, 2007

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What's going on... take your pick or browse below.

*Berkman's OneWebDay Luncheon.
*David Isenberg on OneWebDay, tomorrow.
*Doc Searls wonders if marketing can be conversational.
*Dan Gillmor on the end of TimesSelect.
*Rebecca MacKinnon updates us on Chinese blogging.
*Open Net Initiative: Filtering Proposed by EC Justice and Security Commissioner.
*Citizen Media Law Project: Creationist-Atheist Brouhaha Over DMCA Takedown Notices.
*Weekly Global Voice: Free Speech Roundup: Turkey, Russia, Pakistan, India.

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The full buzz.

"Both Yom Kippur and OneWebDay are days of remembrance of something we might forget without a Special Day. In the case of OneWebDay, we need to remember what a miracle the Internet is, how recently it has become a necessity in our lives, its potential to lower the barriers that separate individuals and cultures, and how easily its potential could be wrenched out of our hands."
David Isenberg, "OneWebDay is tomorrow..."

"Not long after Cluetrain came out, Jakob Nielsen floored me by pointing out something that should have been obvious but proved easy to miss: that the authors "defected" from marketing and took sides with markets against it. When we wrote we are not seat s or eyeballs or end users or consumers, and our reach
exceeds your grasp. deal with it ... the first person we was individuals seeking to escape marketing's grasp."
Doc Searls, "Can marketing be conversational?"

"Glad to see that the Times is putting its great cast of columnists more firmly back into the public conversation than they'd been behind the pay-wall. That's excellent news for the writers and the readers. The second part of this shift may actually be more
important. The Times is opening its archives, or at least the past 20 years worth."
Dan Gillmor, "NY Times' Brave Change: Opening Archives"

"Tongue-in-cheek 'patriotic' banners like this one created by 'Xiucai' have been cropping up around the Chinese blogosphere. It reads: 'Joyfully welcome the 17th Party Congress, building a harmonious society together. Xiucai is a good comrade. This site has temporarily shut down comments and forum features.'"
Rebecca MacKinnon, "Tough times for Chinese bloggers"

"It was recently reported that European Commission Justice and Security Commissioner Franco Frattini is interested in finding ways to filter the Internet for terrorism-oriented activities, including searches for them. In an interview with Reuters, Frattini stated, 'I do intend to carry out a clear exploring exercise with the private sector ... on how it is possible to use technology to prevent people from using or searching dangerous words like bomb, kill, genocide or terrorism.'"
Open Net Initiative, "Filtering Proposed by EC Justice and
Security Commissioner"

"Ars Technica reports that Creation Science Evangelism (CSE), a creationist group founded by Kent Hovind (who is currently in prison for violations of federal tax law), recently sent a raft of questionable DMCA takedown notices to YouTube complaining that various user-posted videos infringed its copyrights in videos of its seminars."
Sam Bayard, "Creationist-Atheist Brouhaha Over DMCA Takedown Notices"

"(1) YouTube blocked in Turkey again. (2) Russian LiveJournal user faces prison over fictional story. (3) Blogspot.com blocked again in Pakistan. (4) Mumbai police planning to install keystroke loggers in cyber cafés."
Sami Ben Gharbia, "Free Speech Roundup: Turkey, Russia,
Pakistan, India"