Berkman
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How cooperation works
Rocking talk on modeling cooperation being given right now by Oliver Goodenough here at the Berkman Center. Streaming live. Continue reading
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Knight Knews
I always thought that both WNEW and KNEW (radio stations in New York and San Francisco, respectively) should have been, given their call letters, news stations. Anyway, that thought came to mind again when I wrote the headline above for the news below… It’s the last day to apply for a Knight News Grant. I… Continue reading
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Derupting the bastards
Excellent interview with Larry Lessig, on the subject of corruption. Here’s the corruption wiki. Bonus link #1: The corruption that is the FCC. Bonus link #2: Drew Clark of the Center for Public Integrity on “Media Tracker, FCC Watch, and the Politics of Telecom, Media and Technology” … today’s Luncheon speaker here at the Berkman… Continue reading
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One Life Day
I got a jump on OneWebDay with an autobiographical post at Linux Journal. In the spirit of (in this case, unintentionally) disclosive autobiography, I posted it yesterday in the mistaken belief that yesterday was actually OneWebDay, and not just the day on which the Berkman Center devoted its customary Luncheon to OneWebDay. So, rather than… Continue reading
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Toward a new ecology of journalism
I managed to irk pretty much everybody with my post Citizen journal breaks a heroic story. Shelley Powers and David Kearns both took issue with the “citizen journalism” concept. Shelley said it doesn’t work, and David pleaded “for the demise of that horrible ‘citizen journalist’ meme”. Liz Straus, who pointed me to the story in… Continue reading
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Tripping the fantastic light
One of my biggest rarely-fulfilled fantasies is visiting amazing places I’ve seen from the sky. Starting this Saturday we may do some of that. Or maybe not. Depends on how much we hurry on our road trip from Santa Barbara, California to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where we plan on living for the next year. (No, we’re… Continue reading
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Personalizing our own health care
Let’s say you have to go to the hospital, and among your problems is an inability to use your writing hand. What do you do when they hand you a clipboard and tell you to fill out your relevant health care history? That and other questions are partly answered in Health Care Relationship Management, over… Continue reading
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Old look, new feel
With help from the excellent Danny Silverman, here in the Berkman geek cave, the old “Colonel Sanders” banner is now at the top of the new blog. Seems pretty good to me. What do ya’ll think? Continue reading
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The vapor and the desk
I’m in one of the yellow areas in the dopper radar map above. My wife and kid are in a rental car in a dark red area, driving into BWI for a flight home that I suspect may be delayed. Meanwhile power is out at my daughter’s family’s house. I’m sitting in a chair on… Continue reading
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There has to be a better way
In the last two weeks we’ve had three unpleasant car rental experiences, each of which is an angle on what’s been screwed up for way to long with that whole category. Read more about it at the ProjectVRM blog. Continue reading