Berkman Buzz: Week of February 14, 2011

What's being discussed...take your pick or browse below.

* Berkman community members suggest questions for Secretary Clinton in advance of her "Internet freedom" speech
* Ethan Zuckerman posts his suggestion for Secretary Clinton's entire speech
* Doc Searls is ready for the live web
* Dan Gillmor reviews Apple's new subscription model
* David Weinberger explores the National Broadband Map
* Weekly Global Voices: "Special Coverage: Bahrain Protests 2011"

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The full buzz.

"Berkman Center faculty associate Matthew Hindman provoked an energetic email exchange among members of the extended Berkman community today, in anticipation of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's "Internet Freedom" speech (transcript, #NetFreedom). Matt had asked for suggestions of a question to ask Secretary Clinton."
From the Berkman Center's round-up, "Questions for Secretary Clinton concerning 'Internet freedom'"

"A colleague who works in the State Department contacted me a few weeks ago and asked if I wanted to offer any suggestions for what Secretary Clinton might cover in her second address on internet freedom, the address she gave this afternoon at George Washington University. I sent him a long note in the form of a proposed speech, on January 24th, the day before protesters took to the streets in Cairo, ten days days after Ben Ali fled Tunisia."
From Ethan Zuckerman's blog post, "A three week old reaction to Secretary Clinton’s internet freedom 2011 speech"

"CNN Money has a piece titled Life in 2020: Your smartphone will do your laundry. It’s a good future-oriented piece, but it has two problems that go back to a Static Web view of the world. The first problem is that it sees the future being built by big companies: Ericsson, IBM, Facebook, IBM, Microsoft and Qualcomm. The second problem is that it sees the Web, ideally, as a private thing."
From Doc Searls' blog post, "Bring on The Live Web"

"Apple has finally clarified what it will demand of publishers that want to sell subscriptions through its iPhone and iPad app ecosystem. The demands are extortionate, and traditional publishers agreeing to them are crazy if not suicidal."
From Dan Gillmor's blog post, "Traditional Publishers that Agree to Apple’s iOS Subscription Demands are Insane, or Desperate"

"The National Broadband Map is now available. We had wanted to bask in the sunlight provided by the incumbent access providers, but instead we just got freckles. Want to laugh like a broken-hearted clown? View only the places that have fiber to the home."
From David Weinberger's blog post, "National Broadband Map: What the incumbents hath failed to wrought (wring?)"

"Bahrain is one of the latest countries to stage protests in the so-called Arab revolution time-table inspired by uprisings in Tunisa and Egypt. Police have forcefully quashed demonstrations that began on February 14 across the country, and both videos and photos of the crackdown are dodging internet censors, and making their way around the web (hashtag (#14Feb). At least two people have died."
From Global Voices Online's Special Coverage on the Bahrain Protests 2011

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The weekly Berkman Buzz is selected from the posts of Berkman Center people and projects and sometimes from the Center's wider network.

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