After Comcast admitted to stuffing seats at the FCC hearing at Harvard Law School February 24th, the FCC decided another hearing was necessary. They chose to hold it at Stanford April 17 and I’m watching the FCC’s videocast of the event, which is oddly appropriate, since the focus of the hearing is video on the […]
Archive for April, 2008
Lessig stars at the Stanford FCC hearing
Published April 18th, 2008 in Internet and Democracy, Technology, Media and Economics. 0 CommentsCass Sunstein and Yochai Benkler at MIT - Our Digitized World: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly.
Published April 14th, 2008 in Internet and Democracy, Media and Talks. 0 CommentsLast Thursday April 10 MIT hosted a debate/discussion between Yochai Benkler and Cass Sunstein (audio can be found here). Both are Harvard Law Professors (Sunstein coming here from Chicago in the fall) and, perhaps unsurprisingly, the discussion became very philosophical. Both have written prolifically on technology and our future, especially Benkler’s The Wealth of Networks […]
Amartya Sen at the Aurora Forum at Stanford University: Global Solidarity, Human Rights, and the End of Poverty
Published April 5th, 2008 in Developing world, Human Rights, Talks, Economics and Conferences. 0 CommentsThis is a one day conference to commemorate Martin Luther King’s “The Other America” in his 1967 speech at Stanford, and heed that speech’s call to create a more just world.
Mark Gonnerman, director of the Aurora Forum introduces the event by noting that economic justice is the main theme of King’s legacy. He references King’s […]
The Internet Drives Election Results in Malaysia
Published April 4th, 2008 in Internet and Democracy, Developing world and Media. 1 CommentOn March 8, elections were held to the Malaysian parliament. The incumbent Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition, who lost its two-third majority in parliament, had held power since independence from the United Kingdom in 1957. In the months leading up to the election, accusations had been flying about corruption and a system designed to keep the […]
