http://blog.stodden.net Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:05:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I can't believe I haven't read this book until now since it intersects two areas of deep interest to me: technology (specifically programming) and freedom. Essentially the book celebrates liberty as a natural mode for creativity and productivity, with open source software as an example. Raymond has two further findings: ... http://blog.stodden.net/2008/07/01/book-review-the-cathedral-and-the-bazaar-by-eric-raymond/ I'm here at the Global Voices Summit in Budapest and I just listened to a panel on Rising Voices, a group within Global Voices dedicated to supporting the efforts of people traditionally underrepresented in citizen media. (See their trailer here). At the end of the panel, the question was asked ... http://blog.stodden.net/2008/06/28/vacations-or-vacations/ When people talk about the Internet and Democracy, especially in the context of the Middle East, I wonder just how pervasive the Internet really is in these countries. I made a quick plot of data for Middle Eastern countries from data I downloaded from the International Telecommunciation Union: The US is ... http://blog.stodden.net/2008/05/19/internet-and-cell-phone-use-in-the-middle-east/ 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 ... http://blog.stodden.net/2008/04/18/lessig-stars-at-the-stanford-fcc-hearing/ Last 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 ... http://blog.stodden.net/2008/04/14/cass-sunstein-and-yochai-benkler-at-mit-our-digitized-world-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly/ This 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 ... http://blog.stodden.net/2008/04/05/amartya-sen-at-the-aurora-forum-at-stanford-university-global-solidarity-human-rights-and-the-end-of-poverty/ On 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 ... http://blog.stodden.net/2008/04/04/the-internet-drives-election-results-in-malaysia/ 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 profit with 25 journalists created to fill the gap left ... http://blog.stodden.net/2008/03/28/do-you-know-where-your-news-is-predictions-for-2013-by-media-experts/ 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 of the state of citizen media via sampling news across ... http://blog.stodden.net/2008/03/28/media-republic-panel-defining-success-measuring-impact-of-participatory-media/ 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 blogosphere since he objects to dividing research on society into cases ... http://blog.stodden.net/2008/03/28/john-kelly-parsing-the-political-blogosphere/