Berkman Center for Internet & Society

VRooM Boston 2009

As with earlier Vendor Relationship Management (VRM) workshops, this is a free unconference, organized on the open space model. Participants choose the topics, move those topics forward in open discussion, and share progress with the whole group at the end of each day...

Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age

a book talk with Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger

By now the perils of posting indiscreet photographs or information on social networking sites like Facebook or MySpace are well known -- jobs are lost or denied, reputations diminished, and families destroyed by a single click. But the problem is far greater than this, argues Viktor Mayer-Schönberger in "DELETE: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age."

Web of Ideas

What Information Was

David Weinberger

David Weinberger will present an informal sketch of a direction for understanding the dominance of information as concept, metaphor, etc., suggesting that we leaped into "information" because it reflected a long-held but squirrely metaphysics. There will be lots of time for open discussion.