O3b Networks: A far-out plan to deliver the Web (Christian Science Monitor)
'''The uptake on mobile phones in Africa is phenomenal,' says Ethan Zuckerman, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School and the founder of GeekCorps, a nonprofit group working to expand Internet use in emerging nations.''
His kitty site became a caboodle (Los Angeles Times)
''Increasingly, popular culture is taking its cues from user-generated Web content that can quickly spread far and wide, said Tim Hwang, an Internet culture expert with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.''
One Web Day, an 'Earth Day' for the Internet, celebrates online activism (San Jose Mercury News)
'''Think of One Web Day as an environmental movement for the Internet ecosystem,' wrote Eszter Hargittai, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.''
Talking of Microsoft, Thinking of Google (Conde Nast Portfolio)
The anniversary conference was organized by Phil Malone, director of the Cyber Law Clinic at Harvard Law's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. While a lawyer with the Justice Department's San Francisco office, Malone led a team of Justice lawyers who amassed the thousands of emails, contracts found to be illegal and other conduct that led to the finding that Microsoft had abused its monopoly power.
Can America Invent Its Way Back? (Business Week)
''[Karim] Lakhani has been studying what is called distributed innovation, in which solutions to a business or technical problem are solicited from a wide variety of people.''
Hot-button election: How the internet drives the US campaign (Financial Times)
'''It was meant to be a ''mousepads and shoe leather'' campaign,' says David Weinberger [...], who is now a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center. 'They were not good at doing the shoe leather.'''
Twittering From the Cradle (New York Times)
''But Mr. [John] Palfrey warns that parents posting [online] the intimate details of their children’s lives need to ask not only who has access to this content, but also who owns it.''
In a wide-ranging interview, Palfrey and Zittrain survey the future of the I (Spotlight at Harvard Law School)
''While Zittrain and Palfrey worry about losing the very best about the Internet, both books [Born Digital, The Future of the Internet] ultimately are optimistic, laying out today’s challenges but also presenting reasoned solutions and urging parents, lawmakers, technology companies and others to assume a role in preserving the medium.''
Libel lawsuit filed against Cape blogger (Boston Globe)
''While the First Amendment protects the right to state opinions, bloggers can get into trouble when they include factual statements in their postings, according to David Ardia, director of the Citizen Media Law Project at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society.''
How Russia May Have Attacked Georgia's Internet (Newsweek International Edition)
''The Russian military certainly had the means to attack Georgia's Internet infrastructure, says Jonathan Zittrain, cofounder of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.''
