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[b@10] Unconf

This morning, we've had two unconference sessions, here at the Berkman tenth anniversary conference. And I have to say, as far as I can tell, it's going really well. The participants (formerly known as attendees) filled in the grid of times and place

Posted: May. 16, 2008 01:38 PM

Me on implicit governance and the Publius Project

Supernova has posted a 15 minute vcast interview with me, by Howard Greenstein, about the Berkman Publius Project and my op-ed in it about why tacit governance is usually better than getting all explicit about stuff.[Tags: berkman publius governance

Posted: May. 16, 2008 07:45 AM

The elements of interference

The Union of Concerned Scientists has published a Periodic Table of the Elements, except instead of elements, it's instances of US government interference in science.[Tags: science ]

Posted: May. 16, 2008 07:17 AM

[b@10] Charlie Nesson

Charlie Nesson begins by saying that the morning had a negative cast to it. It was about fear. But he was uplifted when Yochai and Jimbo got to what Wikipedia is and could be. [Live blogging. Full of errors and omissions. Posted unedited and unspellc

Posted: May. 15, 2008 05:46 PM

[b@10] John Palfrey: Poilitics and the Future of Democracy

John begins by pointing to Publius, a set of essays and discussions about the Net's many "constitutional moments." But his overall topic is, as Yochai Benkler frames it, whether the networked sphere expands democracy. E.g., photos and videos of the m

Posted: May. 15, 2008 02:24 PM

[b@10] Jonathan Zittrain

[After Dean Kagan (correctly) identifies JZ with the Berkman Center, JZ begins by talking about the importance of the fact that the Net at its start was unconstrained by a need to make money. They therefore didn't have to count how many people were o

Posted: May. 15, 2008 11:19 AM

[b@10] Intros

Terry Fisher talks about the Berkman's scope. He initiates a cheering section to try induce Jonathan Zittrain to accept Harvard Law's offer of a professorship. [JZ! JZ! Z!]Charlie Nesson talks about the values of the Center: "Open code, open acJcess,

Posted: May. 15, 2008 09:49 AM

[b@10] Berkman Center becomes a Harvard center

Dean Kagan has just announced that the Berkman Center, which had been part of Harvard Law, is now an interdisciplinary center, part of Harvard University overall. This is not only quite an honor. It also will embed the Center even more directly in th

Posted: May. 15, 2008 09:33 AM

[b@10] Berkman@10

The tenth anniversary celebration of the Berkman Center is starting. It's a two day conference about the future of the Internet. It's sold out. The backchannel is at irc://irc.freenode.net/berkman. I assume it's being webcast but I don't know where.

Posted: May. 15, 2008 09:26 AM

Zenzuu: The social network with a one-track mind

So, I was chatting with the driver of the limo my hosts in Las Vegas kindly supplied for me. When I said that I write about technology, he told me about his startup. It's a social network that he's confident will knock FaceBook and MySpace off the ma

Posted: May. 14, 2008 10:09 PM

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