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View the full archive of AudioBerkman Nathan Eagle on Big Data, Global Development, and Complex Social Systems [Audio] Nathan Eagle, Omidyar Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute, will discuss a selection of projects arising from collaborations that involve inferring behavioral dynamics on a broad spectrum of scales; from risky behavior in a group of MIT freshman to population-level behavioral signatures, including cholera outbreaks in Rwanda and wealth in the UK. Access to the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Weinberger on What Information Was [Audio] Berkman Fellow David Weinberger investigates the origin of modern “information”, trying to understand what about it led us to embrace it as the dominant–paradigmatic–way of understanding ourselves and our world. David Weinberger will present an informal sketch of a direction, suggesting that we leaped into information because it reflected a long-held but squirrely metaphysics. Download [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ellen Goodman and Jake Shapiro on Redesigning public media for the 21st Century [AUDIO] Ellen Goodman of Rutgers University School of Law and Jake Shapiro, Executive Director of the Public Radio Exchange (PRX), discuss public media’s role in providing public discourses, advancing democratic capabilities, and empowering publics to communicate and organize. The two investigate whether the United States has a system of public media that is able to support [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Elizabeth Goodman on Walled Gardens: Opening the Discussion [Audio] “Walled gardens” is a common term for systems that limit the entrance and exit of certain kinds of data. It is a deceptively simple metaphor that relies on the existence of a shared set of assumptions about what gardens are, what walls are, and what it means to build and maintain them. In this talk, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Viktor Mayer-Schönberger presents “Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age” [Audio] A book talk with professor Viktor Mayber-Schönberger who examines the technology that’s facilitating the end of forgetting in his book, “Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age”. Mayer-Schönberger argues that in our quest for perfect digital memories where we can store everything from recipes and family photographs to work emails and personal information, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jesse Shapins and James Burns on Mapping Main Street [Audio] Mapping Main Street is a collaborative documentary media project that creates a new map of the country through a dynamic visualization of stories, data, photos and videos recorded on actual Main Streets. The goal is to document all of the more than 10,000 streets named Main in the United States. Two of the project’s founders, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman Recent Classics: What the Heck is a Commons? It’s been a busy week at the Berkman Center, so we had to forgo a new podcast this week. But have no fear, we did not forget you! We dusted off a recent classic from our archive by popular demand: “Episode 124, What the Heck is a Commons?” David Bollier, author of Viral Spiral: How the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Calestous Juma on Legal Issues in Broadband Internet for Eastern Africa [AUDIO] Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development and Director of the Science, Technology, and Globalization Project at Harvard’s Kennedy School, explores the implications of high speed internet for Africa’s capacity to expand the global market for access devices, creation of content, and development of markets. Click here for notes on the event from [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lee Dirks on Transforming Scholarly Communication [AUDIO] Lee Dirks, Director of Education & Scholarly Communications in Microsoft’s External Research division proposes a vision for the future of research and the need for semantic-oriented computing by exploring eResearch projects that have successfully applied relevant technologies. He suggests that a software + service model with scientific services delivered from the cloud will become an [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 132: Learning to Share Ownership structures for creative works – such as Copyright, Creative Commons, Fair Use, Public Domain – abound. This week, Kenneth Crews, the director of the Copyright Office at Columbia University, speaks with us about some of the distinctions, and the ways to make sure your work is protected as much or as little as possible. Listen: or [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Herkko Hietanen on Network Recorders and Social Enrichment of Television [AUDIO] Television recorders are going online. Device manufacturers are starting to produce consumer devices and software that can be connected to Internet at consumers’ homes. New models of innovation are starting to emerge. This talk proposes the social enrichment of TV offerings may prove to create disruptive innovation to an industry accustomed to control the consumption [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Clippinger and Oliver Goodenough on Cloud Law, Finance 3.0, and Digital Institutions [AUDIO] John Clippinger and Oliver Goodenough of the Berkman Center’s Law Lab discuss the progress made this year by the Law Lab – especially three specific projects that develop new digital institutions and research tools to foster innovation and deepen our understanding of trust, transparency and human cooperation. Liveblogging from the talk by David Weinberger Download the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 134: Small Medium at Large Few dispute that the web will be the dominant medium of the 21st Century – swallowing whole newspapers, books, radio, television, and the cinema. And even as the web grows virtually – over a trillion unique urls and growing – it shrinks physically – from laptop, to netbook, from cell phone, to even tinier and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Clippinger and Oliver Goodenough on Cloud Law, Finance 3.0, and Digital Institutions [AUDIO] John Clippinger and Oliver Goodenough of the Berkman Center’s Law Lab discuss the progress made this year by the Law Lab – especially three specific projects that develop new digital institutions and research tools to foster innovation and deepen our understanding of trust, transparency and human cooperation.Liveblogging from the talk by David WeinbergerDownload the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Herkko Hietanen on Network Recorders and Social Enrichment of Television [AUDIO] Television recorders are going online. Device manufacturers are starting to produce consumer devices and software that can be connected to Internet at consumers’ homes. New models of innovation are starting to emerge. This talk proposes the social enrichment of TV offerings may prove to create disruptive innovation to an industry accustomed to control the consumption [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lee Dirks on Transforming Scholarly Communication [AUDIO] Lee Dirks, Director of Education & Scholarly Communications in Microsoft’s External Research division proposes a vision for the future of research and the need for semantic-oriented computing by exploring eResearch projects that have successfully applied relevant technologies. He suggests that a software + service model with scientific services delivered from the cloud will become an [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 129: I Bought the Law Steve Schultze is a busy fellow. He is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. He recently joined the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy as Associate Director. He also is one of the developers behind RECAP - an ambitious and provocative project that seeks to bring publicly available digital court records [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CyberScholars: Aaron Shaw on the Commons and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen on Tools for Politics [AUDIO] Aaron Shaw - Polanyi’s Penguin? Commons-Based Industry in the Neoliberal Knowledge EconomyA renowned group of social and political theorists have argued that Commons-Based Peer Production (CBPP) and the spread of non-rival informational goods could eliminate North-South inequalities in the knowledge-based economy (see, for example, Benkler 2006; Weber 2004). Some of them have even gone further [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman Supreme: Is Twitter A Revolution? A Debate The Berkman Center for Internet Society was blessed with the presence of dozens of interns this summer - some of the best, the brightest, and most energetic folks in the field of cyber study. Four of them came together earlier this summer for a semi-Oxford style debate on a topic of importance. The question: Is [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 128: Tweeting a Dead Horse The hype shows no signs of abating. Now that people have moved from just talking-about-Twitter, to the more meta talking-about-talking-about-Twitter, we here at Radio Berkman decided to take on the topic from our own perspective and see if there is possibly anything new left to be said about the popular microblogging service. Turns out there [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website