Berkman Buzz: July 15, 2011
A look at the past week's online Berkman conversations
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What's being discussed...take your pick or browse below.
* Summer Berktern Andres Lombana Bermudez posts 12 short video interviews with Hyper-Public participants
* David Weinberger liveblogs a discussion on new voices, approaches, and audiences for national and international reporting
* Clay Shirky advocates for chaos in the new news environment
* Herdict showcases its new features, including its interactive map
* Dan Gillmor explores online identity ownership in the context of Google+
* Weekly Global Voices: "TED Talk by Global Voices Co-Founder Rebecca MacKinnon"
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The full buzz.
"Some weeks ago, I had the opportunity to attend the Hyperpublic symposium hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and assumed the challenge, together with other interns at the Youth and Media (YAM) Lab, of documenting the event with different media such as photographs, videos, mind maps, and tweets. The symposium helped us to understand in a more complex way, how privacy and public space are being re-designed in our digital networked society."
From Andres Lombana Bermudez's post for Hyper-Public, "Voices from Hyperpublic: 12 short video interviews with participants of the symposium."
"My friend Persephone Miel died very young about a year ago. This afternoon there’s a discussion in her memory: 'Cultivating new voices, approaches, and audiences for national and international reporting.' The official description: Journalists Fatima Tlisova (Voice of America) and Pulitzer Prize winner Dele Olojede will join Ethan Zuckerman (Berkman Center/Global Voices), Colin Maclay (Berkman Center), Ivan Sigal (Global Voices), Jon Sawyer (Pulitzer Center) and the Miel family for a discussion and reflection on these questions, and on Persephone’s work and the journalistic values she championed."
From David Weinberger's blog post, "Remembering Persephone"
"Having one kind of institution do most of the reporting for most communities in the US seemed like a great idea right up until it seemed like a single point of failure. As that failure spreads, the news ecosystem isn’t just getting more chaotic, we need it to be more chaotic, because we need multiple competing approaches. It isn’t newspapers we should be worrying about, but news, and there are many more ways of getting and reporting the news that we haven’t tried than that we have."
From Clay Shirky's blog post, "Why We Need the New News Environment to be Chaotic"
"This week, we’re spotlighting some of the new features of Herdict 2.0. Each day, expect an exploration of our new visualization tools, combined with interesting data."
From Kendra Albert's blog post for Herdict, "New Herdict Features: The Interactive Map"
"If you make G+ (or Facebook or Twitter or LinkedIn or Tumblr any other service that hosts your conversations and other "content") your primary online presence, you are in effect giving away something enormously valuable. You are giving your contributions to the emergent global conversation to a company that values you largely as a contributor of data it can then turn into money."
From Dan Gillmor's post for the Guardian, "Google+ forces us to question who owns our digital identity"
"Global Voices co-founder Rebecca MacKinnon, says citizens must hold corporations accountable in order for the internet to evolve in a 'citizen-centric' manner. In a TED talk on July 12, 2011 in Edinburgh, Scotland she describes how the internet has become a primary communication channel between citizens and governments, but warns that there is a corporate layer of 'internet sovereigns' between the two."
From Solana Larsen's post for Global Voices Online, "TED Talk by Global Voices Co-Founder Rebecca MacKinnon"
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Compiled by Rebekah Heacock.
The Berkman Buzz is selected weekly from the posts of Berkman Center people and projects and sometimes from the Center's wider network.
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