Berkman Fellow David Weinberger discussed The Future of the Music Industry, with special guest musician Brad Sucks
Berkman Fellow David Weinberger lead a discussion titled "Who are the Web’s leaders?", questioning whether online leadership will effect leadership off the Web.
Berkman Fellow David Weinberger lead a discussion on "Copyright: Designing from the Ground Up"
Berkman Fellow David Weinberger lead a discussion "Civility, Speech and Cyberbullying - A Code of Conduct for the Web?"
We've been through a few election cycles in which the Internet played an important part. What have we learned?
Many of our metaphors about the Internet treat it as a place, which is perfectly appropriate. But many - perhaps all? - Net phenomena have a temporal dimension which is not "merely" metaphorical.
There's no doubt that we're forming relationships over the Internet that feel something like friendship. But are they different enough from real-world friendships that they need their own term?
If we change the most basic principles of organization, what will happen to knowledge and to the institutions that take their shape from knowledge?
Is the Web a Medium? At one level, the Web is a medium through which messages are passed from A to B. But if we acknowledge that the medium affects the messages or even that the medium is the message, the very idea that it's a medium obscures much of importance about the Web.
This week's Web of Ideas featured a special guest, David P. Reed, one of the Internet's architects and most articulate thinkers.