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Born Digital arrives on bookshelves

syoung — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:00:00 -0400

The Berkman Center is pleased to announce that Faculty Co-Director John Palfrey and Faculty Fellow Urs Gasser's Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives (Basic Books) is now available.*

August 23, 2008. Newsweek International Edition. How Russia May Have Attacked Georgia's Internet

admin — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:42:46 -0400

''The Russian military certainly had the means to attack Georgia's Internet infrastructure, says Jonathan Zittrain, cofounder of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.''

August 20, 2008. Wired. Olympics Journalists' Complaints Crack Open Net Access A Bit in China

admin — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:59:42 -0400

''More people in China have access to more independent sources of news and information online in the wake of complaints by Olympics journalists' about web censorship, according to a new report from the OpenNet Initiative.''

August 14, 2008. Wall Street Journal. Ruling Bolsters Open-Source Software

admin — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:29:05 -0400

'''It's a clear statement that if someone doesn't follow the conditions you put into an open-source license, you have a copyright claim,' said Wendy Seltzer, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School.''

August 14, 2008. Globe and Mail. Chinese blogger detained on Twitter

admin — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:15:07 -0400

''Global Voices, the excellent global blogging project founded by Rebecca MacKinnon and the Harvard Berkman Center for the Internet and Society, caught wind of the detainment and started posting translations of Zhou's Twitter messages...''

August 12, 2008. CNN. Bloggers weigh in on Georgia

admin — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:47:57 -0400

''The weblog Global Voices Online, a nonprofit media project founded at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, has been collecting posts by bloggers writing about the military conflict between Georgia and Russia that began Friday.''

August 14, 2008. Washington Post. Longtime Battle Lines Are Recast In Russia and Georgia's Cyberwar

admin — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:19:39 -0400

'''In terms of the scope and international dimension of this attack, it's a landmark,' said Ronald J. Deibert, director of the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab...''

August 13, 2008. The American Prospect. Freedom's Future Online

admin — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:10:30 -0400

''If that's what you think, you need to read Jonathan Zittrain's new book, The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It. A professor of law and Internet governance and regulation at Oxford...''

August 15, 2008. Chronicle of Higher Education. Antipiracy Campaign Exasperates Colleges

admin — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:54:12 -0400

''At the point where universities finally come to see they're the target of this RIAA campaign, that's the point at which they'll start arguing their own self-interest,'' says Charles R. Nesson, founder of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

August 8, 2008. InterGovWorld. Anti-censorship software beefed up for Chinese Olympics

admin — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:49:12 -0400

''Psiphon Inc., a Toronto-based circumvention technology provider, recently released an upgrade to its software that allows the safe transmission of images in addition to text, says principal Rafal Rohozinski.''

August 7, 2008. Bloomberg. Asian Yahoos Don't Give a Google About Free Web

admin — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:36:53 -0400

''Internet filtering has been on the rise in Asia for the past five years,'' says John Palfrey, executive director of Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

August 6, 2008. Christian Science Monitor. Queen Rania takes to Web to break stereotypes of Arabs

admin — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:25:56 -0400

''I think Queen Rania's [YouTube page] is one of the more impressive attempts to use YouTube for social change,'' writes Ethan Zuckerman, cofounder of the citizen's media website Global Voices.

August 4, 2008. BusinessWeek. Enter the Cloud with Caution by Harry Lewis

admin — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:28:47 -0400

'Managing computer systems distracts attention from your real business. Computers crash, and you fume helplessly as the IT staff restores your ordinary workflow...'

August 3, 2008. New York Times Magazine. Malwebolence

admin — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:41:31 -0400

''The trolls employed what the M.I.T. professor Judith Donath calls a 'pseudo-naïve' tactic, asking stupid questions and seeing who would rise to the bait.''

July 28, 2008. eWeek. How to Keep Corporate Secrets a Secret

admin — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:15:16 -0400

''Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen and Harry Lewis, authors of 'Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness after the Digital Explosion,' explain how companies can use the right mix of process, people and advanced technologies to keep their data secure—and

Citizen Media Law Project Completes Launch of Online Guide to Media Law

syoung — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:00:00 -0400

Cambridge, MA – The Citizen Media Law Project (CMLP) announced today that it has completed the launch of its Citizen Media Legal Guide, located at http://www.citmedialaw.org/legal-guide. The free guide, which is intended for use by bloggers, website operators, and other citizen media creators, focuses on the legal issues that non-traditional and traditional journalists are likely to encounter as they gather information and publish their work online.

July 28, 2008. Boston Globe. You can run, but you can't hide, on Web

admin — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:38:37 -0400

''For the moment, Google is the 800-pound gorilla bestriding the Net. 'Google doesn't really forget,' says Ethan Zuckerman of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.''

July 22, 2008. New York Times. If You Have a Problem, Use Innocentive to Ask Everyone

admin — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:20:52 -0400

''Offering prizes for scientific achievements is hardly new. 'It has been around for centuries,' said Karim R. Lakhani, a professor at Harvard Business School [and Berkman Center Fellow] who has studied InnoCentive.''

July 2008. Inc Magazine. A Haven For Virtual Companies

admin — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:30:12 -0400

'''Bylaws could be put into software instead of writing,' says Oliver Goodenough, a law professor at Vermont Law School and a faculty fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society.''

July 19, 2008. AP. Web networking photos come back to bite defendants

admin — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:30:13 -0400

''...Phil Malone, director of the cyberlaw clinic at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. 'The things that people say online or leave online are pretty permanent.'''

July 15, 2008. New York Times. At the Uneasy Intersection of Bloggers and the Law

admin — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:22:19 -0400

''There is no better way to get a blogger fired up than by telling him what he cannot publish -- although you might forgive a government prosecutor for thinking otherwise.'' Jonathan Zittrain comments.

July 9, 2008. Christian Science Monitor. ISPs enter the targeted ad game

admin — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:49:51 -0400

''Even if Web users accept some online snooping, few expect ISPs to be the culprits, says Wendy Seltzer, a follow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.''

Digital Natives team kicks off Reporters in the Field series

syoung — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:00:00 -0400

This afternoon, the Digital Natives project rolled out the first video in its Reporters in the Field series, which will investigate the project's issues and themes through one of those same themes: digital media creation.

The Digital Natives interns and researchers have been hard at work over the last couple months, and they will be releasing a new media piece each week through the beginning of fall.

July 16, 2008. Christian Science Monitor. Rise in lawsuits against bloggers

admin — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:41:03 -0400

''The EFF and the Citizen Media Law Project (CMLP) – an affiliate of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School – offer detailed legal guides for bloggers. Both organizations also help bloggers find legal counsel.''

July 9, 2008. Newsweek. Twitter Nation: Microblogging is huge, but should anyone care?

admin — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:57:27 -0400

'''If you look at any technology trend of this sort that is developed by technologists, put forward through startups and funded by venture capitalists, you're going to have a shakeout and you're going to have winners,'' says John Palfrey...'

July 7, 2008. Wall Street Journal. The End of Internet Privacy? A Look the Viacom-Google Order

admin — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:03:20 -0400

''Wendy Seltzer, a law prof and a fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, told the WSJ that Stanton's ruling 'is the wrong legal conclusion from the facts.'''

Berkman Center Announces Request for Technical Submissions Related to Child Safety on the Internet

lkoss — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:23:49 -0400

Cambridge, MA – The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University today formally announced a Request for Technical Submissions as part of the work of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force.

June 27, 2008. Boston Globe. Facebook, ConnectU settle dispute

admin — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:11:25 -0400

'''One thing about the Internet is that most ideas are developed collaboratively in the Internet space...' said John Palfrey, executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard..."

Homeward!

syoung — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:30:00 -0400

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Jonathan Zittrain has accepted an offer to become a tenured Professor of Law at Harvard Law School! He will continue to serve as a Berkman faculty co-director.

June 12, 2008. National Law Journal. Berkman Center co-founder returns to Harvard Law School

admin — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:34:49 -0400

''Berkman Center for Internet & Society co-founder Jonathan Zittrain will become a tenured professor at Harvard Law School and return to the Berkman Center as one of four faculty co-directors...''