Did you know…
-Prof. Z was elected to the Internet Society’s board of trustees for a three-year term. The Internet Society is an international nonprofit organisation founded in 1992 to “provide leadership in Internet related standards, education, and policy.”
- For those who missed it, the audio of the interview featured on WNPR (April 30) on “What’s [...]

March 29: 60 Minutes features the story, “The Conficker Worm: What Happens Next?” and posts two video interview with Prof. Z online: “Is the Internet in Trouble?” and “30 Percent Infected?”
April 7: The Harvard Law School News reports on Prof.Z’s talk at the Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center’s 20th Anniversary Technical Symposium at [...]

I never tire of listening to Prof. Z and am probably not the only one. For those who were unable to attend any of his classes, panels, and lectures in the past few weeks, several audio interviews are available on the Internet (where else?).
* On NPR’s On the Media, Prof. Z talks about the future [...]

-by Yvette Wohn
Snowfall in Cambridge is keeping people at home but perfectly illustrates situations that can be solved with ubiquitous human computing. Prof. Z discusses this concept of using remote human resources in a recent interview with Nokia’s Ideas Project. Cheap networks, he says, enables organizations to get things done regardless of location. Bad news [...]

-by Yvette Wohn
Jonathan Zittrain’s brainchild Herdict was officially released today. (Watch the project’s mascot — a sheep — demonstrate “the verdict of the herd” in a short video… does its voice sound familiar?)
Herdict is a tool that employs the distributed power of the Internet community to provide insight into what users around the world are [...]

-by Yvette Wohn
Celebrating the first anniversary of its publication, The Future of the Internet- And How to Stop It will be available in paperback on March 15, making it easier for those who want to read on the go. The book can also be downloaded to the Kindle for $16.50 and is available for free [...]

John Markoff’s article in the NYT about Internet vulnerabilities and projects like Stanford’s Clean Slate has been getting a lot of attention, including a thoughtful response from David Isenberg.  David’s right that a lot of the ideas in the NYT piece echo my book’s thesis.  Here’s my reply to David:
Suppose that we agree on a [...]

–by Yvette Wohn
Assuming that most people who visit this site are interested in the thoughts of Jonathan Zittrain, I will try to keep readers up to date on the latest JZ-related news. (Those who wish to see more random updates of our cyber professor may want to follow him on Twitter.)
On Feb. 18, the Berkman [...]

Larry’s site has been pwned for the moment, so here’s a copy of his blog post announcing his move:

It is with a complicated mix of excitement and sadness that I make the following announcement.
As some of you remember, just over a year ago I reported that I was shifting my academic (and activist) work from [...]