Category Archives: Berkman

Craig Newmark: "no vision, but I know how to keep things simple, and I can listen some"

Posted on November 14, 2008 by vcs

Craig Newmark was visiting the Berkman Center today and he explained how founding Craiglist brought him to his current role as community organizer. But these are really the same, he says. In 1994, Craig was working at Charles Schwab where … Continue reading →

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Benkler: We are collaborators, not knaves

Posted on October 14, 2008 by vcs

Yochai Benkler gave a talk today in reception of his appointment as the Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. Jack Berkman (now deceased) is the father of Myles Berkman, whose family … Continue reading →

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Do you Know Where Your News Is? Predictions for 2013 by Media Experts:

Posted on March 28, 2008 by vcs

Jonathan Zittrain, co-founder of the Berkman Center, is moderating a panel on the future of news at Berkman’s Media Re:public Forum. The panelists were given two minutes and gave us some soundbites. Paul Steiger is Editor-in-Chief of ProPublica, a non … Continue reading →

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Media Re:public Forum Panel on Participatory Media: Defining Success, Measuring Impact

Posted on March 28, 2008 by vcs

Margaret Duffy is a Professor from the University of Missouri School of Journalism and she is speaking at Berkman’s Media Re:public Forum. She leads a Citizen Media Participation project to create a taxonomy of news categories and get a sense … Continue reading →

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John Kelly: Parsing the Political Blogosphere

Posted on March 28, 2008 by vcs

John Kelly is a doctoral student a Columbia’s School of Communications, a startup founder (Morningside Analytics), as well as doing collaborative work with Berkman. He’s speaking Berkman’s Media Re:public Forum. Kelly says he takes an ecosystem approach to studying the … Continue reading →

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David Weinberger: How new technologies and behaviors are changing the news

Posted on March 28, 2008 by vcs

David Weinberger is a fellow and colleague of mine at the Berkman Center and is at Berkman’s Media Re:public Forum discussing the difference the web is making to journalism: “what’s different about the web when it comes to media and … Continue reading →

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Robert Suro: Defining the qualities of information our democracy needs

Posted on March 28, 2008 by vcs

Robert Suro is a professor of journalism at USC and spoke today at Berkman’s Media Re:public Forum. His talk concerns journalism’s role in democratic processes and he draws two distinctions in how we think about journalism that often get conflated: … Continue reading →

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Richard Sambrook at the Media Re:public Forum

Posted on March 27, 2008 by vcs

I’m at Berkman’s Media Re:public Forum and Richard Sambrook, director of Global News at the BBC is giving the first talk. He is something of a technological visionary and his primary concern is with how technology is affecting the ability … Continue reading →

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Media Re:public Forum: Los Angeles March 27-28

Posted on March 18, 2008 by vcs

Berkman’s Media Re:public project is bringing people together to discuss the state of participatory media within the current information environment, called Media Re:public Forum. I’m going to be there! Crossposted on I&D Blog

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Internet & Democracy Digital Activism Event

Posted on March 15, 2008 by vcs

On February 7th and 8th, the Berkman Center hosted a three day conference entitled “Digitally-Empowered Activists: Getting the Tools to the People Who Need Them” in Istanbul, Turkey. The presentations highlighted efforts by people to use tools, such as video, … Continue reading →

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Jesse Dylan and Hope|Act|Change

Posted on March 6, 2008 by vcs

Jesse Dylan, the director behind Will.I.Am‘s Yes We Can song video and Rob Holzer, CEO of Syrup NYC, want to bring their vision for political change through the Hope|Act|Change web site (http://hopeactchange.com). Karim Lakhani, Harvard Business School professor, is moderating … Continue reading →

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