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Making Sense of the Wikileaks Fiasco: Prior Restraints in the Internet Age

rtabasky — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:39:39 -0500

Citizen Media Law Project Director David Ardia is quoted in today's New York Times, saying that a judge's order to shutdown the WikiLeaks website by removing its DNS record, “is clearly not constitutional...There is no justification under the First Amendment for shutting down an entire Web site.” You can read developments and keep up on this story via the Citizen Media L

BloggerCon II

ashar — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:13:01 -0500

For more on BloggerCon, see this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BloggerCon

Signal or Noise: The Future of Music on the Net

ashar — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:34:58 -0500

The complete conference website can be found here: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/archived_content/events/netmusic.html

Berkman.tv: Conversation with Jake Shapiro, Executive Director of PRX

mdeehan — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:23:35 -0500

Breaking Down Digital Barriers: When and How ICT Interoperability Drives Innovation

rtabasky — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:02:58 -0500

Interoperability, like openness, is something that we generally think of as a "good thing" in the context of information and communications technologies (ICTs). One of the reasons why we tend to like interoperability is that we believe it leads to innovation, as well as other positive things like consumer choice, ease of use, and competition.

Pulling the Plug: A Technical Review of the Internet Shutdown in Burma

swalkerman — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:36:17 -0500

This bulletin examines the role of information technology, citizen journalists, and bloggers in Burma and presents a technical analysis of the abrupt shutdown of Internet connectivity by the Burmese government on September 29, 2007, following its violent crackdown on protesters there. Completely cutting international Internet links is rare. Nepal, which severed all international Internet connections when the King declared martial law in February 2005, is the only other state to take such drastic action. Although extreme, the measures taken by the

Podcasting Legal Guide: Rules for the Revolution

rtabasky — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 01:13:11 -0500

Purpose:

The purpose of this Guide is to provide you with a general roadmap of some of the legal issues specific to podcasting. EFF has produced a very practical and helpful guide for issues related to blogging generally (http://www.eff.org/bloggers/).

Internet & Society Conference 2007 (IS2k7): University: Knowledge Beyond Authority

rfink — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:07:47 -0500

The complete Internet & Society Conference 2007 (IS2k7) web site can be found at http://www.is2k7.org/about

Report for Harvard University’s Internet and Society Conference
May 31 and June 1, 2007

The Setup

Blogging, Journalism & Credibility

rfink — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:30:03 -0500

The complete Blogging, Journalism & Credibility website can be found at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/webcred/

Signal/Noise 2k5: Creative Revolution?

rfink — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:19:59 -0500

The following is an archived page. The complete Signal or Noise II conference website can be found at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/sn/

The Signal or Noise II conference will be held in Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall on the Harvard Law School campus on April 8, 2005. It is co-hosted by The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, the Harvard Committee on Sports and Entertainment Law, and Gartner G2.

We the Media

rfink — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:03:28 -0500

Book Description, from Amazon:

"We the Media, has become something of a bible for those who believe the online medium will change journalism for the better." -Financial Times

The Wealth of Networks

lroser — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 11:39:48 -0500

Book Description, from Amazon: