David Weinberger Events

What Information Was

ashar — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:30:00 -0500

Tuesday, November 10, 12:30 pm
Berkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floor
RSVP required for those attending in person (rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu)
This event will be webcast live at 12:30 pm ET and archived on our site shortly after.

What Information Was

ashar — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:00:00 -0400

Tuesday, October 6, 6:00PM
Berkman Center Conference Room, 23 Everett St, 2nd Floor
Free and Open to the Public
RSVP requested to rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu

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

ashar — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:00:00 -0400

Tuesday, June 16, 6:00 pm
Austin East Classroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School (Map)
Free and Open to the Public
RSVP requested for those attending in person via the form below
This event will be webcast live at 6:00 pm ET.

Check out the Cluetrain Question Tool instance - ask your questions and vote on others!

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ROFLCon

ashar — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:04:11 -0500

The official ROFLCon site: http://www.roflcon.org

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.

It was a group dissection of internet culture. What makes internet culture work, why it works, how it works. We talked about where internet culture has been and where we think it's going.
A music show, with memes performing their work live. And then a big blowout party at the end, where everyone danced and rocked out.
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Assessing the State of Participatory Media, a forum at USC Annenberg

ashar — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:20:47 -0400

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. Based on input from a diverse group of media practitioners, scholars and non-profit actors, Media Re:public will develop:
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Web of Ideas: The Future of the Music Industry, with special guest musician Brad Sucks

ashar — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:45:41 -0500
The traditional music industry is crumbling. From the dust comes ... BradSucks. Brad Turcotte is the very paragon of a Webby, open source musician. At his site, you can download his music for free or pay him a little money. You can reuse his music as you'd like, subject to the Creative Commons license. Not only can you remix it, but Brad posts especially good remixes. He has even open sourced the paint job for one of his guitars.
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Web of Ideas: Is the Web Changing the Nature of Leadership?

ashar — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:38:15 -0500
It’s easy to find business and political leaders. But who are the Web’s leaders? Although the big online collaborative projects have nominal leaders, they play a very different role than do traditional CEO’s. The Web seems to be providing an alternative to the notion that business leaders are people imbued with special traits. In fact, Some of the traits and roles of traditional leadership are now becoming properties of the network itself. What effect might that have on leadership off the Web? Is online life so different that political and business leadership will continue unaltered?
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Web of Ideas: Copyright: Designing from the Ground Up

ashar — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:26:48 -0500
"Designing Copyright from the Ground Up": Suppose we had the chance to start over again with copyright, designing it to accommodate the digital era and designing it to support the greatest public good. What would it look like? How would we manage the clash between the need for leeway with the complete and precise knowledge of use that networked usage provides?

The Summer Doctoral Programme (SDP)

rfink — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:04:54 -0500

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Berkman Book Release: Everything is Miscellaneous

ashar — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:03:48 -0500

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society hosted a celebration in congratulations of Berkman Fellow David Weinberger’s release of his book Everything is Miscellaneous through Times Books. David is a co-author of the national best-seller The Cluetrain Manifesto, has written for Wired, Salon, USA Today, and The Guardian, and in 2004, served as Senior Internet Advisor to the Howard Dean Campaign.
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