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) […]
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 […]
Some Herdict Updates: * Here is a new video with Prof. Z navigating the screen and explaining how to use Herdict. * Helping us get the word of Herdict out to the herd-at-large, Shep has taken on some impressive language skills (and more impressive gender changes) to promote Herdict in a number of different languages […]
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 […]
BadwareBusters.org was officially launched today by StopBadware.org and Consumer Reports WebWatch. The latest of a string of Berkman Center projects that aim at garnering the wisdom of the crowd through the Internet, BadwareBusters facilitates an online community for people looking for help combating viruses, spyware, and other malicious software on their computers and websites. (StopBadware […]
by Yvette Wohn Speaking at the Berkman Center earlier this year before the official launch of Herdict, Prof. Z described Herdict’s potential as being a real-time tool for mapping web filtering activities around the world. “Should it start producing a map of filtering as it happens, I think it will have a major impact,” he […]
-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 […]
-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 […]
-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 […]
–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, […]
