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Chair: John Palfrey, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School
Keynote Speaker and Panelist: Oh Yeon-ho, OhmyNews (South Korea)
Panelist: Stephen Ward, University of Salford and Oxford Internet Institute (UK)
Panelist: Rebecca MacKinnon, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, HLS
Panelist: Jeff Ooi, Malaysian blogger, news article with a familiar photo
Oh Yeon-ho claims citizen journalism began in [...]

No Need to Click Here – I’m just claiming my feed at Feedster

I learned that because this blog has multiple feeds (i.e. there are feeds for each of the departments), I might need to claim each of those feeds individually in Feedster. Recently, I retrieved a feed from one of those departments that has a problem photo next to it. I realized then, Feedster might have given [...]

The book Bowling Alone inspired Scott Heiferman, CEO of Meetup.org, to create a system where people can come together. He began his talk by showing slides of different groups using Meetup.org, most of which have had recent meetings via the service.
And then the Webcast signal disappeared …

Many people around the blogosphere report Dan Gillmor, a columnist for the San Jose Mercury News, is leaving his job to start a citizen journalism project.

Quite a few people are blogging or are going to blog the conference. I don’t think there’s open wireless access there today, so it’ll mostly be Harvard-affiliates who have access to the network right now. Here are some selected posts.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Thursday night’s kickoff
Hoder’s portion of the Citizenship panel
Business

David Weinberger

Thursday night
Citizenship panel

sj

report on the crowd

Through the Deutschewelle Best of the Blogs 2004 award site, I learned that Cornell University is using a public weblog to discuss redesigning their homepage. It’s a way they’re vetting designs and gathering feedback from the public. It is in the category Best Innovation.

Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan thanked the staff of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society for their work organizing the conference, especially John Palfrey and Wendy Koslow. She called the center one of Harvard Law School’s “crown jewels” and emphasized the importance of the work the center does.
Jesse Climenko Professor of Law Professor [...]

The Berkman Center folks plan to Webcast today’s Votes, Bits, & Bytes sessions in Ames Courtroom and those in Pound Hall 102 on Saturday.
I’m very glad to know that since I can’t be at the conference all day. Perhaps, the audio files might be available after the conference, too.
Addendum: I am listening to the Webcast. [...]