Berkman Buzz, week of June 18

BERKMAN BUZZ: A look at the past week's online Berkman conversations
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School
Week of June 18, 2007

What's going on... take your pick or browse below.

*Ethan Zuckerman reviews Bono at TED.
*William McGeveran explains Blogger ID Theft.
*Larry Lessig looks at his next 10 years.
*Jake Shapiro debates New Media's commercialism.
*David Weinberger talks wireless spectrum at Supernova.
*Citizen Media Law: PerezHilton.com Temporarily Shutdown.
*Weekly Global Voice: Egyptian judge loses bid to block websites.

The full buzz.

"Bono wants the world to care more about Africa. So do I. After that, it gets a bit harder to see eye to eye.  Bono had a bit of a rough ride at TED Global in Arusha. In the first session of the conference, he found himself heckling Ugandan author Andrew Mwenda."
Ethan Zuckerman, "Judging a magazine by its cover"

"We’re all familiar with the sort of identity theft where bad guys steal your personal data in order to get access to your money — or more often your good credit history — for financial gain. But what about those who impersonate others in online communications by deceptively adopting a real person’s name as a pseudonym?"
Info/Law, "Blogger Identity Theft"

"During my keynote at the iCommons iSummit 07, I made an announcement that surprised some, but which, from reports on the web at least, was also not fully understood by some. So here again is the announcement, with some reasoning behind it.  The bottom line: I have decided to shift my academic work, and soon, my activism, away from the issues that have consumed me for the last 10 years, towards a new set of issues. Why and what are explained in the extended entry below."
Larry Lessig, "Required Reading: the next 10 years"

"Last Friday I was part of a debate at the Silverdocs conference organized by DocAgora (a group that describes itself as 'an open space to consider new forms, new platforms and new ways of financing creative, authored and socially-engaged documentary content').  A 'Debate Proposition' was posed to two teams of three people each who had to argue for and against it: 'Given that New Media has redefined the meaning of Public, the wall between public and commercial media no longer exists.'"
Jake Shapiro, "DocAgora"

"John M.R. Kneuer Acting Assistant Secretary Communications and Information gives a talk. He begins by talking about the value of the 700mH spectrum. It's becoming available as "leapfrog" technologies are becoming available, he says. "What we really have is an opportunity for a game-changing opportunity against the first movers and incumbents." [I think I garbled that, but so did he.]"
David Weinberger, "[supernova] Bush admin guy, and then some great discussions"

"CNN is reporting (via the Associated Press) that Internet gossip columnist Perez Hilton's site was shut down for several hours after his hosting company received complaints that the site contained copyrighted photos of celebrities."
Citizen Media Law Project, "Gossip Site Perezhilton.com Temporarily Shutdown Due to Copyright Claims"

"The State Commissioner Committee in Egypt has rejected the request made by the judge Abdel Fattah Mourad to block 51 websites and blogs deemed insulting the state’s dignity and threatening Egypt’s interests. In the meantime, the investigation on blogger Amr Gharbia, who was charged for defaming Judge Mourad, has been suspended..."
Sami Ben Gharbia, "Egypt: Judge’s request to block websites rejected"