Too Big to Know

David Weinberger, Berkman Center and Harvard Law School Library Lab

David Weinberger discusses his new book, "Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room."

Berkman Luncheon Series

Meta-Library

Kim Dulin & David Weinberger, co-directors of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School

The co-directors of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School -- Kim Dulin and David Weinberger -- along with members of the Lab will demonstrate their lead project (ShelfLife) and talk about the Lab's proposed multi-library metadata server (LibraryCloud). This event will be webcast live at 12:30PM ET.

Web of Ideas

The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion

David Weinberger in conversation with John Hagel III

Join us for a discussion on The Power of Pull, a new book from authors John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, and Lang Davison on how "pull" can be more systematically used to shape serendipity.

Lawberry Camp

An unconference geared towards law librarians, legal information professionals, and others in related fields

Lawberry Camp is an unconference geared towards law librarians, legal information professionals, and others in related fields and will be hosted at Harvard Law School.

Berkman Luncheon Series

What Information Was

David Weinberger, Berkman Center

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. This event will be webcast live at 12:30PM ET.

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.

Cluetrain at 10: So How's Utopia Working Out for Ya?

with Berkman Fellows Doc Searls and David Weinberger, and Berkman faculty co-director Jonathan Zittrain

On the tenth anniversary of The Cluetrain Manifesto, how's all that freedom, that cyberutopianism, that Internet exceptionalism working out for you? Harvard Law professor and co-founder of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society Jonathan Zittrain talks with two of The Cluetrain Manifesto's co-authors, Doc Searls and David Weinberger, in an open forum. This event will be webcast live at 6:00 pm ET.

ROFLCon

In the making since '94

Mix up a bunch of super famous internet memes, some brainy academics, a big audience, dump them in Cambridge, MA and you've got ROFLCon.

Assessing the State of Participatory Media, a forum at USC Annenberg

Berkman’s Media Re:public project, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, is undertaking an assessment of the state of the field of participatory media within the overall news and information environment. The research initiative will examine historical developments from a forward-looking perspective, with the goal of informing future research, policy-making and other interventions.

Web of Ideas

Web of Ideas: The Future of the Music Industry, with special guest musician Brad Sucks

with David Weinberger

Berkman Fellow David Weinberger discussed The Future of the Music Industry, with special guest musician Brad Sucks