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New Harvard Law School Library Project Manager Positions for Innovative Projects w/the Berkman Center for Internet & Society

Nov 20, 2013

The HLS Library, in conjunction with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, is pleased to announce two new project manager positions.  The newly posted Library Technology (LT) Project Manager will be responsible for design, implementation, and management of special and ongoing projects across the HLS Library. The recently posted Academic Technology (AT) Project Manager will […]

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Humanizing the Web

Nov 15, 2013

I wrote this in April of 2008 for The Times, and don’t think I ever posted it here — Humanizing the Web The Web’s design reflects the open ethos of its early users: it has no central managers, no main menu, and no investment in content – indeed, no business plan whatsoever. Instead, its framers […]

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Perma: Scoping and addressing the problem of “link rot”

Sep 22, 2013

Kendra Albert, Larry Lessig and I are finishing up a study of link rot, available at http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=2329161. Link rot is the phenomenon by which material we link to on the distributed Web vanishes or changes beyond recognition over time.  (Wiki discusses link rot here.)  This is a particular problem for academic scholarship, which is increasingly linking […]

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Rock star RA wanted

Jan 30, 2013

I’m seeking a full-time one-year rock star research associate to engage with a variety of projects and classes, with a broad opportunity to immerse in cyberlaw and Internet topics.   Blurb below, with more information on how to apply at <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/getinvolved/jzra>.  …JZ — Professor Jonathan Zittrain of Harvard Law School, the Harvard Kennedy School of […]

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F-T: Don’t sue over tweets

Nov 26, 2012

I just published a short piece in the F-T in the wake of legal threats against users who tweeted or retweeted a link to a BBC report of child abuse that turned out to be wrong.  Here’s the full text — Those who didn’t see the false child abuse accusations against Lord Alistair McAlpine on […]

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Help pioneer Casebook: The Next Generation

May 2, 2012

We at the H2O project are seeking a full-time Project Manager. H2O is an online platform for textbook development and distribution, currently in a pilot stage. H2O is based on the open source model – instead of locking down materials in formalized textbooks, we believe that course books can be free (as in free speech) […]

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Meme patrol: “When something online is free, you’re not the customer, you’re the product.”

Mar 21, 2012

I participated in the Berkman Center’s fascinating HyperPublic symposium in the summer of 2011.  When moderating a panel I invoked the aphorism that “When something online is free, you’re not the customer, you’re the product.”  It’s a way of encapsulating the idea that online free services usually make money by extracting lots of data from […]

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OS X Mountain Lion and Gatekeeper

Feb 17, 2012

This week, Apple announced that it was moving to a new, faster OS X operating system development cycle, starting with the release of Mountain Lion next summer.  It previewed a number of features for the OS, and released some parts in beta. Mountain Lion is slated to include a feature called Gatekeeper as part of […]

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GPS-based Insurance Rates: The Devil is in the (Data) Details

Feb 13, 2012

A British insurance company called Motaquote has teamed up with TomTom, the GPS manufacturer to offer insurance prices based on data gathered by GPS. Fair Pay Insurance, Motaquote’s new program, is an opt-in insurance pricing scheme where drivers will get a free GPS unit in return for potentially lower (but possibly higher) premiums. The GPS […]

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A SOPA compromise is floated

Dec 7, 2011

Last week several members of Congress — Senators Wyden, Cantwell, Moran, and Paul, and Reps. Issa, Lofgren and Chaffetz — floated a proposal to substitute for the contentious proposed Stop Online Piracy Act, previously discussed here.  Sen. Wyden’s office has commented on the compromise, and TechDirt has a writeup and a copy of the document […]

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@BostonJoan @sarahdrinkwater @Dom_Hallas @ubiquity75 @LibraryLaw @ALALibrary @mnylc Makes sense. And thank you for that talk to the Assembly program!

About 2 hours ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

@sarahdrinkwater @Dom_Hallas @BostonJoan @ubiquity75 One (admittedly out of the box) idea re schools and libraries and content moderation here at 48:44, previously prototyped with @LibraryLaw and @ALALibrary. I’d be curious to know reactions! youtu.be/ONvw15HQkgA

About 3 hours ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

@sarahdrinkwater @Dom_Hallas @BostonJoan @ubiquity75 Let’s talk!

About 3 hours ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

“While billed by the White House as ‘definitive,’ the report included no scholarly footnotes or citations, nor was it clear who its primary authors were.” A droll kicker to this story by @michaelcrowley and @jennyschuessler about the “1776 Report.” nytimes.com/2021/01/18/us/…

About 10 hours ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

A vicious anonymous letter to MLK in 1964 was later verified by Senate investigators as sent by the FBI. This 2014 article by historian @beverlygage mentions the repudiation of it — and the surveillance behind it — by then-FBI Director @Comey. nytimes.com/2014/11/16/mag… pic.twitter.com/d2oSHKY6Rc

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