Unglued From the Tube (MediaPost)
''The broadcast model of branding - the traditional push - distilled a brand into its simplest form, while reaching the most consumers possible and offending the fewest, says David Weinberger, a fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet &
Metrolink Tries to Censor Bloggers (LA Weekly)
''A Web site must merely act in 'bad faith' — no financial profit need be involved, according to Sam Bayard, assistant director of Harvard University's Citizen Media Law Project.''
The Scoop on Political Coverage (Boston Globe)
''One fan is Harvard Law School professor John Palfrey, who runs the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. 'A key aspect of the Internet and politics is the ability of young people to be more involved in public discourse.'''
Academic says gadgets threaten Internet's future (Washington Post)
''I don't want to see a two-tier world where only the experts can survive ... and the non-experts are stuck between something they don't understand and something that limits them,'' Zittrain told Reuters in an interview.
A Killer Product: Will closed devices like Apple's iPhone murder the Web? (Newsweek)
''Jonathan Zittrain claims that the very thing that makes the Internet great--its "generative" or innovative nature--is being locked down in a new wave of closed devices like the iPhone, Xbox, TiVo and the OnStar system.''
The new fame: Internet celebrity (CNN)
''The Internet allows the masses to wrest control of fame from traditional media, creating micro-celebrities with the click of a mouse, says David Weinberger of the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society.''
Web celebs consider their role (The Boston Globe)
'''This conference was an idea waiting to happen,' said David Weinberger, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. He kicked off the confab with a keynote speech examining the Web's new brand of celebrity, where popul
Zittrain's 'U.S (CNET)
''In his writings, Zittrain has raised a red flag over the hidden price paid by consumers who willingly adopted so-called closed devices in return for a promise of stability.''
It's Hard Out Here for a Meme: Lifestyles of the Microfamous (April 25, 2008)
'''The number of potential cultural memes goes up in a straight line with the increase of internet population,' said David Weinberger, a fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society and author of Clueless Manifesto, a book on the economy
Badware Threat Changes Apple's Tune on Safari (Wahington Post)
''Stopbadware.org -- an organization that includes tech thought leaders from Harvard, Oxford as well as sponsors like Google and Sun Microsystems - threatened last week to slap a "badware" label on Apple's updater.''
