Berkman Buzz: October 28, 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.
* Ethan Zuckerman explores mapping and storytelling at Occupy Wall Street
* Dan Gillmor critiques the WikiLeaks payments blockade
* The Citizen Media Law Project spots Bigfoot fighting for free speech
* Herdict covers China's censorship of the 'Occupy' movement
* David Weinberger wonders about the future of digital scholarship
* Weekly Global Voices: "United Kingdom: At Age 77, a Life of Inspiration"
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The full buzz.
"Newsmotion and People’s Production House are now working together to build a platform, tentatively titled Basta! It’s designed specifically to help cover Occupy Wall Street and related movements, and Marisa tells us, the people building it have been working on these issues since 1999 in Seattle. The platform seeks to combine original content and curated aggregation, to identify the best, most relevant and accurate sources, whether they’re official, unofficial or citizen sources."
From Ethan Zuckerman's blog post, "Civic Media Lunch: Telling stories about Occupy Wall Street"
"I'm not an unalloyed WikiLeaks supporter, nor an acolyte of Julian Assange.... But even if I strongly disliked WikiLeaks, I would be stepping up now to say that the financial blockade is a danger to everyone. It is a harbinger of a future where governments will find new leverage points to shut down the media they don't like."
From Dan Gillmor's post for The Guardian, "WikiLeaks payments blockade sets dangerous precedent"
"Back in March, I wrote a snippet about a guy who brought suit against the State of New Hampshire for its burdensome permit requirements for filming in Monadnock State Park. See Plaintiff's motion for summary judgment. The facts of the case are nothing short of awesome."
From Marc Randazza's blog post for the Citizen Media Law Project, "Bigfoot Spotted Fighting for Free Speech at the New Hampshire Supreme Court"
"Prompted by recent 'Occupy' protests in the United States, last week China’s largest microblogging service, Sina Weibo, begun censoring a long list of phrases that combine the Chinese word for 'occupy' (??) and the name of places in China. The official Chinese policy on the Occupy Wall Street movement is that the protests are 'worth pondering.' However, Sina Weibo’s recent actions suggest the country is concerned that the protests that have cropped up in so many parts of the world may take hold in China."
From Matt Lavigueur's blog post for Herdict, "China Censors ‘Occupy’ Movement"
"I think we’re just going to have to give up on the idea of 'keeping up' — much as newspapers and half hour news broadcasts have to give up the pretense that they are covering all the day’s events. The idea of coverage was always an internalization of the limitation of the old media, as if a newspaper, a broadcast, or even the lifetime of a scholar could embrace everything important there is to know about a field. Now the Net has made clear to us what we knew all along: most of what knowledge wanted to do was a mere dream."
From David Weinberger's blog post, [2b2k] Will digital scholarship ever keep up?"
"Julie Kertesz started blogging and photographing at the age of 70. Now at 77, she has become a role-model to people of all ages who desire to lead full and active lives of learning and doing."
From Paula Góes's post for Global Voices, "United Kingdom: At Age 77, a Life of Inspiration"
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Compiled by Rebekah Heacock.
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