Berkman

Family Marks 2 Years Since Berkman Garage Collapse

Firstcoastnews.com Local News (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009

Berkman Plaza, 2 years later: A trail, and tale, of fatal errors

Jacksonville.com: Most Popular Stor (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009

Concrete slabs were cracking. Beams were straining. Disaster was coming. A young man would be dead soon, others hurt, and millions of dollars lost. But the workers and managers at the Berkman Plaza 2 construction site in Jacksonville didn’t grasp the urgent danger inside the parking garage until its six stories collapsed around them before dawn on Dec. 6, 2007. Building crews had reported...

Featured Author: Jillian York

Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago

Jillian York describes herself as "a writer, activist, Internet censorship combatant, and blogger." She is based in Boston where she works at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society on the OpenNet Initiative and Herdict, a crowdsourcing project to identify blocked websites.

Will Someone Please Put Newsweek Out of its Misery?

Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

According to the venereal newsweekly, the latest scourge threatening our planet is... digital sweatshops ! I shit you not. Harvard Law Professor Jonathan Zittrain, co-founder of the university's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, has the wholly imaginary scoop : What's to worry about? For one thing, online contracting circumvents a range of labor laws and practices, found in most developed...

Clearing the cache: Reading the "Climategate" emails

Personal Democracy Forum (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

... coverage from Mother Jones, the Nation, Grist, and others. ( via @agolis) Event notice: Harvard's Berkman Center is holding a session on the "digital media response to the 2009 Iranian election." And just because it's a new one on me, check out the software license known as WTFPL . And no, it's NSFW. (With Anthony Russomano) read more

Around The Blogosphere 09 December 09

Dave Lucas (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

... Internet censorship combatant, and blogger." She is based in Boston where she works at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society on the OpenNet Initiative and Herdict, a crowdsourcing project to identify blocked websites. Reactions flow forth from bloggers around the Middle East and North Africa regarding Switzerland's controversial ban on the construction of minarets. Brasilian...

Interview | Danah Boyd: 'People looked at me like I was an alien'

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

... including MIT's famed Media Lab, the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Along the way she gained influence for her insights into the social web – not just by conducting studies of how many kids use Facebook, but by taking a closer look at what is going on. One of her breakthrough moments was talking about the class and race...

RIAA: They can make him pay, but they can't make him go away

Out of the Jungle (Free subscription) | yesterday

... That ruling was a major blow to what was expected to be a key point of argument for the Berkman Center for Internet and Society , which represented Tenenbaum and is now seeking a new trial. Ahead of the summer trial, Gertner precluded the fair-use defense with a brief order without much elaboration. The judge gave the Berkman Center until Jan. 4 to seek a new trial. Among other positions,...

Bye, bye Beacon… and other bad ad ideas

...My heart's in Accra (Free subscription) | yesterday

There are ideas that, when you first encounter them, you say, “That can’t possibly be a good idea.” That’s how I and colleagues at the Berkman Center felt when we saw a preview of Facebook’s Beacon “feature” in November of 2007. Introduced in time for that year’s Christmas shopping season, Beacon used a cookie set [...]

Listening in on a conversation between Ed and Drayton

SportsJustice (Free subscription) | yesterday

Good morning, Drayton, this is Ed. Ed! Great to hear from you. How are things over at Second Baptist? Uh, no, Drayton, this is Ed Wade. You know, with the Astros. I sure do, Ed. You know the first thing Jerry Reinsdorf told me when I bought the Astros? He said never listen to a thing your general manager says. Pretty good advice if you ask me. What's on your mind this morning? How are things at Second...

Calling all Digital Media Scholars, Researchers ...

Spotlight on Digital Media and Lear (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009

Call for papers from Digital Culture & Education journal; Harvard University Berkman Center’s Youth and Media Policy Working Group Initiative seeks examples of youth-based Internet safety programs and interventions.

Fantasy Top 10 First Basemen (CHONE projections)

Fantasy Ball Junkie (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009

Taking CHONE projections and filtering them through a fantasy player rater for standard 5×5 categories, we get the following ranking heading into 2010: Albert Pujols (1) Prince Fielder (4) Ryan Howard (5) Miguel Cabrera (3) Mark Teixeira (2) Adrian Gonzalez (8) Justin Morneau (10) Kevin Youkilis (9) Mark Reynolds (6) Lance Berkman (11) In parenthesis, Mock Draft Central’s average...

Free: Information Advisor Article About International Industry Research

Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009

Bob Berkman, a ResourceShelf friend and the Editor of The Information Advisor, has alerted us that he’s making a full text article about international industry research available at no charge. No subscription required. Bob writes: It’s a round up of some of the best sources (market research and industry databases, international agencies like UN, OECD, World [...]

If Astros lose Valverde, Hawkins and Tejada, it's no big deal

SportsJustice (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009

... clubhouse. Those guys will be so excited about being in the big leagues that they might get Lance Berkman and Roy Oswalt really fired up. Mills is going to be a huge part of this equation as well in terms of tone, teaching, preparation, communication and overall competence. There's a window coming after the 2010 season in which Carlos Lee can be traded, and by the time the 2008 draft picks...