Berkman Buzz, week of July 16

BERKMAN BUZZ: A look at the past week's online Berkman conversations
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School
Week of July 16, 2007

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

*Dan Gillmor gives a progress report on citizen media.
*David Weinberger debates Andrew Keen on Web 2.0.
*Ethan Zuckerman shares good news from Darfur.
*Rebecca MacKinnon discusses Flickr's regional censorship.
*Citizen Media Law Project: French Court Finds DailyMotion Liable For Copyright Infringement.
*Weekly Global Voice: Egypt: Another Letter from Imprisoned Blogger, Two bloggers Released, Co-blogging.
*Summer Doctoral Programme: Aggregator of participant blogs, pictures, and more.

The full buzz.

"We’ve come a long way. There’s a growing recognition and appreciation of why citizen journalism matters. Investments, from media organizations and others, are fueling experiments of various kinds. Revenue models are taking early shape. And, most important, there’s a flood of great ideas."
Dan Gillmor, "Citizen Media: A Progress Report"

"The Wall Street Journal online has published an exchange between Andrew Keen ("The Cult of the Amateur") and me. The full version is here. The condensed version is here. (I recommend the full version.)"
David Weinberger, "Me and Mr. Keen"

"It’s rare to see Africa news getting widespread blogosphere attention, and rarer to see good news from Africa get major online attention. But the top headline from BBC currently amplified is an optimistic story about a discovery of water in Darfur and the possibility that this massive underground lake could lead towards a reduction of conflict in western Sudan."
Ethan Zuckerman, "The news we share: water in Darfur"

"On May 11th, Oiwan Lam (pictured at left protesting media content controls) committed what she says was a deliberate act of civil disobedience.
Writing on the citizen media website InMedia Hong Kong, Oiwan called on her readers to post links to erotic websites and also included an artsy photo of a topless woman that she found on Flickr."
Rebecca MacKinnon, "Hong Kong, obscenity laws, and Flickr's regional censorship"

"Brad Spitz reports in his blog that a French court held DailyMotion liable for copyright infringement, despite concluding that the site was a mere 'hosting service.' DailyMotion is an online video-sharing site similar to YouTube. In a July 13 ruling (in French), the court went out of its way to label DailyMotion a hosting service, an argument DailyMotion itself put forth."
Excerpted from Kyle Junik's blogpost, "French Court Finds DailyMotion Liable For Copyright Infringement"

"In this week’s round-up from Egypt imprisoned blogger Karim Amer sends another letter from prison expressing his loneliness and feelings of injustice, the bloggers who were arrested this week were released, movies at the headquarters of Al-Ghad party, the phenomenon of co-blogging gets popular in Egypt and more."
Freedom for Egyptians, "Egypt: Another Letter from Imprisoned Blogger, Two bloggers Released, Co-blogging"