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Gary Kebbel, journalism program officer at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, was the guest speaker this week at the Berkman Center’s Luncheon Series.

Download the MP3 (time: 59:36)

Kebbel’s presentation, entitled “The Knight News Challenge and Digital Innovation: Challenges Posed by Intellectual Property, International Giving, and Grant Administration” discussed the foundation’s grant program. Just ending its third year, the Knight News Challenge is a $25 million contest to find digital news innovations that are used to create community in a given geographic area. At Knight Foundation, Kebbel also helped create the Knight Citizen News Network and the Knight Digital Media Center.

The contest was recently revised to meet new and evolving goals, such as making grants to individuals in foreign countries or focusing the wisdom of the crowd on weak applications so that they could be strengthened and resubmitted. Additionally, $500,000 was set aside for the ideas of people 25-years-old and younger. These changes create new problems of grant administration, intellectual property and having a minor win a monetary award.

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Michael Maier, former Shorenstein Fellow and founder and CEO of the German company Blogform Publishing, joined the Berkman Luncheon Series on September 25 to present on the next generation of digital media platforms in his talk: “Participation, Design, Search: How the Internet is Transforming.”

Michael’s thoughts centered on the idea that digital magazines are starting to pick up, by bringing editorial structure and integrated publishing. Search will not remain Google’s monopoly. The Internet is transforming from an experimental space to a quite mature and professional platform. The next generation (which is today’s) of innovation will introduce more sustainable models and hence change the old media much more than the shockwaves of Web 1.0.

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This afternoon Michael Maier, former Shorenstein Fellow and founder and CEO of the German company Blogform Publishing, joined the Berkman Luncheon Series to present on the next generation of digital media platforms in his talk: “Participation, Design, Search: How the Internet is Transforming.”

Download the MP3 (time: 1:02:48)

Michael’s thoughts centered on the idea that digital magazines are starting to pick up, by bringing editorial structure and integrated publishing. Search will not remain Google’s monopoly. The Internet is transforming from an experimental space to a quite mature and professional platform. The next generation (which is today’s) of innovation will introduce more sustainable models and hence change the old media much more than the shockwaves of Web 1.0.

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Tony Ferraro, President and CEO of 360Hubs and Dr. David Stone, a practicing psychologist, former Harvard Fellow in computer science and now a Visiting Scholar in GSAS joined us at the Berkman Center to speak about applications of social networking technology in the treatment of trauma survivors.

David began the presentation by discussing his experience with clinical services in technology, specifically Second Life. As a practicing psychologist, David has worked in Second Life within specialized communities, and took us on our a tour of Mormon community with a woman named Lois who has multiple sclerosis.

Tony posed the questions “How do we impact our world? and “How can we impact global recovery?” He presented one approach to tackling these questions through affinity hubs and social software.

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Tony Ferraro, President and CEO of 360Hubs and Dr. David Stone, a practicing psychologist, former Harvard Fellow in computer science and now a Visiting Scholar in GSAS joined us at the Berkman Center to speak about applications of social networking technology in the treatment of trauma survivors. Download the audio podcast (time: 1:14:05).

David began the presentation by discussing his experience with clinical services in technology, specifically Second Life. As a practicing psychologist, David has worked in Second Life within specialized communities, and took us on our a tour of Mormon community with a woman named Lois who has multiple sclerosis.

Tony posed the questions “How do we impact our world? and “How can we impact global recovery?” He presented one approach to tackling these questions through affinity hubs and social software.

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John Mayer, Executive Director of the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI), a non-profit consortium of over 200 law schools joined the Berkman Center to discuss CALI’s use of both social networking tools, as well as innovative software in the quest to provide the most thorough and practical means of legal education.

Specifically, John walks through the different types of software that CALI offers and why they have proven to be so useful to their large network of users. He also presents the idea of common casebooks, which would not only offset the cost, but allow for constant and immediate updating capabilities.

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John Mayer, Executive Director of the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI), a non-profit consortium of over 200 law schools joined the Berkman Center to discuss CALI’s use of both social networking tools, as well as innovative software in the quest to provide the most thorough and practical means of legal education.

Download the audio podcast (time: 1:02:06).

Specifically, John walks through the different types of software that CALI offers and why they have proven to be so useful to their large network of users. He also presents the idea of common casebooks, which would not only offset the cost, but allow for constant and immediate updating capabilities.

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Susan Crawford of Cardozo Law School discusses “The Internet and the Project of Communications Law,” focusing on the way the internet’s uniqueness as a social communications tool should affect the way we think about regulating it.

Susan Crawford of Cardozo Law School discusses “The Internet and the Project of Communications Law,” focusing on the way the internet’s uniqueness as a social communications tool should affect the way we think about regulating it.

Download the MP3 (time: 57:26).

Berkman Fellow Rebecca MacKinnon discusses Journalism Education and the Internet: Help plan a cutting-edge “New Media Workshop” for J-school students in Hong Kong. MacKinnon asks, “What should we be teaching tomorrow’s journalists in order to help move journalism in a socially constructive direction? Not just in the United States, but globally?”

In an unconference style untalk, Rebecca leads a dynamic discussion including the context, intent and perspectives of student journalists.

Download the MP3 (time: 1:09:18).