9 posts and columns on Berkman Center for Internet and Society

All I Know Is That I Don’t Know Nothing

Knowledge for my generation was at the center of the human quest. It is going the way of the recording industry. It is a term that won’t survive the generation.

– David Weinberger, researcher at Harvard’s Berkman Center for the Internet and Society, from a lecture last Wednesday at the University of California at Berkeley’s School of Information

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Q&A: WikiLeaks and the Future of Whistleblowing

in News on July 27, 2010 at 10:35 am PT

The disclosure of 76,000 reports on the war in Afghanistan by WikiLeaks has set off a round of damage control by the White House. But what does the release mean for citizen journalism online, and how does technology play into such leaks?

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FCC Considers Opening Up the Pipes

in News on December 10, 2009 at 4:10 pm PT

Should the U.S. adopt rules that would require Internet providers to share their broadband lines with rivals, like other countries? Debate over that controversial idea took center stage at the Federal Communications Commission Thursday, where agency officials are considering a Harvard study that suggested the approach would help improve U.S. broadband availability and affordability.

Cloudy With a Chance of Computing: BoomTown's NPR Debate With Harvard Law Prof Zittrain

in News on August 10, 2009 at 3:00 pm PT

This morning, BoomTown was on the very terrific National Public Radio talk show, “On Point,” along with Harvard law professor Jonathan Zittrain. The program, moderated by Tom Ashbrook on Boston’s WBUR station, was titled “From Desktop to the Digital Cloud” and dealt with the increasing move of data of all kinds online and into the so-called “cloud.” In other words, eventually, a completely virtual life for music, photos, records and more, and the end of packaged software.
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Kara Visits "The Future of the Internet" Book Party!

in News on May 12, 2008 at 10:00 am PT

This past Saturday night, BoomTown attended the tony San Francisco book party for Jonathan Zittrain’s new book, “The Future of the Internet–And How to Stop It.” It was hosted by megablogger Arianna Huffington and Melanie Ellison, an old friend of Zittrain’s from high school, as it turned out. And BoomTown took our Flip video camera, of course!
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