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 […]

The Berkman Center has just launched a very cool new project, MediaCloud, which you can see over at mediacloud.org.  They’re gathering stories from thousands of newspapers, blogs, and other news sources around the web, and then extracting piles of data from the stories—source, topic, entities mentioned, and so on.  Their idea is to figure out […]

—by Elisabeth Oppenheimer In several of the posts on this blog, we’ve talked about how we’ll be waiting to see how Apple’s semi-open model competes with Android’s mostly-open model over the next several years. Slashdot links to a few articles addressing that question. The first two articles say that Apple is totally overwhelmed by trying […]

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 […]