Some cool tech events are happening in the next few days. Instead of flooding you with a post about each of them, I’m going to cheat and clump them together. Many are events sponsored or hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.
Saturday, 9/20: Software Freedom Day in Boston and elsewhere, hosted by the [...]
Today’s Berkman Center lunch features Jonathan Zittrain on the Future of the Internet, a talk based on his new book. The webcast will begin around 12:30 pm ET and last for at least an hour. Zittrain is well-known for his expertise in copyright law and Internet issues. He gave a alk about the book back [...]
James Grimmelmann of the New York Law School has published an article called “Facebook and the social dynamics of privacy”:
“This Article provides the first comprehensive analysis of the law and policy of privacy on social network sites, using Facebook as its principal example. It explains how Facebook users socialize on the site, why they misunderstand [...]
David Ardia of the Citizen Media Law Project had an excellent posting called “Understanding your legal risks when you blog or publish online”:
“Every time you publish something online, whether it’s a news article, blog post, podcast, video, or even a user comment, you open yourself up to potential legal liability. This shouldn’t come as too [...]
The Pew Internet and American Life Project released a report on August 6, 2008 on search engine use:
‘The percentage of internet users who use search engines on a typical day has been steadily rising from about one-third of all users in 2002, to a new high of just under one half (49%).”
“With this increase, the [...]
ETH Zurich has released a comprehensive report called Understanding the Web browser threat: examination of vulnerable online Web browser populations and the “insecurity iceberg”:
“In recent years the Web browser has increasingly become targeted as an infection vector for vulnerable hosts. Classic service-centric vulnerability exploitation required attackers to scan for and remotely connect to vulnerable hosts [...]
Nicholas Carr wrote an article in July/August 2008 Atlantic Monthly called ” Is Google making us stupid: what the Internet is doing to our brains”:
“I can feel it, too. Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming [...]
Debra Lyn Richardson has published “A Field Guide to FireFox 3:
“The new features cover the full range from huge and game-changing to ones so subtle you may not notice them until you realize that using Firefox is just somehow easier and better. The range of improved features is similar — whole back-end systems have been [...]
Vinton Cerf is the opening speaker at the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference. A former senior vice president at MCI, with Robert Kahn, he co-designed the TCP/IP protocol and basic architecture of the Internet. Now, he’s Vice President & Chief Internet Evangelist at Google. (What a fab title!) Charlie Rose is interviewing him.
USAToday has an awesome profile of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and their work, including a history of their activities and importance to the Internet. Perhaps you saw the news that Harvard University elevated Berkman to be a university-wide entity instead of being a part of Harvard Law School.
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