[berkman] Viktor Mayer-Schönberger on the virtue of forgetting
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger is giving a talk at the Berkman Center (well, actually at Pound Hall) on his book Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age. Viktor teaches at Singapore University,...
View ArticleNet uncovers new type of cloud
There are reports of a new type of cloud, one that is not currently in the official International Cloud Atlas. Or, possibly, it is a formation that’s been around forever, but the scattered reports are...
View ArticleDo-it-yourself Google Books — a million dollar idea for Amazon?
Harry Lewis has a terrific post about a $300 do-it-yourself book scanner he saw at the D is for Digitize conference on the Google Book settlement. The plans are available at DIYBookScanner.org, from...
View ArticleRadio Berkman on Forgetting, and Remembering the Media
There are two new-ish Radio Berkman interviews up: Me talking with Viktor Mayer-Schönberger about his book that argues that we are in danger of forgetting how to forget, and Russell Neuman on learning...
View ArticleFCC’s Net Neutrality discussion board
The FCC has put up a site — openinternet.gov — where anyone (after registering with a valid email address) can post an idea, or vote existing ideas up or down. I love the idea of the feds opening...
View ArticleHow embarrassing
All the tagging and categorization info on this site seems to be gone. Poof! These are the categories and tags that would help you browse the site by topic. Very embarrassing for a site about the power...
View ArticleLego blocks unmiscellanized
Giles Turnbull at the Morning News reports on his research interrogating (gently) children from different families about what they call various Lego pieces. Quite interesting in its own taxonomic way,...
View ArticleOMG. I disagree with Umberto Eco!
It makes me very nervous to disagree with Umberto Eco because he is so fathomlessly smart. But I think in this case I do. Sort of. There’s a fabulous interview with Eco in Spiegel (in English) about...
View ArticleCory Doctorow in support of copyright
In this edition of Radio Berkman, Cory Doctorow argues in favor of copyright … the part of copyright that protects the rights of readers to own (and not just license) books. It being Cory, the...
View ArticleShirky’s myth of complexity
Clay Shirky has given us a surprising number of Internet myths. And by this I mean not falsehoods but the opposite: Broad, illuminating ways of making sense of what’s going on. For example, Clay’s post...
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