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Internet stars come out for RIAA trial

In RIAA lawsuit news, the Tennenbaum case â€" in which uber-lawyer Charles Nesson now represents the defendant â€" is taking an Internet star turn. Ray Beckerman reports that in a pretrial memo PDF, Nesson discloses that he intends to call some of the biggest legal names in digital rights. ...

Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, P2P, RIAA, Berkman Center, Charles Nesson, Internet, Peer To Peer (P2P), Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-11-19

ID techs and events all orbiting Berkman's Higgins Project

Harvard Berkman Center senior fellow John Clippinger tipped me off to the Federal CTO Summit that's taking place at the Renaissance Hotel in Washington, DC from April 5-7. Clippinger is one of the speakers at tomorrow's event and will be contributiing to the discussion on streamlining information sharing and assurance...

Tags: Blogging, Berkman Center, John Clippinger, Microsoft InfoCard, Higgins Project, open source, blog

Blog posts 2006-04-04

Whirlwind day at Harvard's Berkman Center

I wanted to publicly say thanks to the folks at The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at the Harvard Law School HLS for having me over for most of the day Tuesday earlier this week. I'm purposely not naming names because I know I'll leave someone...

Tags: Berkman Center, mashup

Blog posts 2006-01-12

Speaking at Harvard today

The folks over at The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard's School of Law have invited me to come be a guest speaker for their "Berkman Luncheon Series" which takes place most Tuesdays. I was first exposed to the Berkman Center about a year ago when I...

Tags: Berkman Center

Blog posts 2006-01-10

Additional Resources

Judge nixes fair use defense in Tennenbaum filesharing case

In a last-minute knockout punch, delivered just hours before the latest high-profile RIAA case was scheduled to start, Judge Nancy Gertner denied a fair use defense to Joel Tenenbaum, Ars Technica reports. Tenenbaum had sought to present his fair use theory to the jury but the judge...

Tags: Defendant, Joel Tenenbaum, Peer To Peer (P2P), Team Management, Internet, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-07-27

China's Green Dam and the cyberwar implications

Guest editorial by Oliver Day Chinese military leaders have always been aware of the military advantage the US has over the People's Liberation Army.  Reading through their published assessments of Sino-US war possibilities confirm our belief that we would dominate them in the...

Tags: Software, China, Vulnerability, Computer, Chinese Internet, Green Dam, Government, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Internet, Vertical Industries, Security, Management, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-07-23

Wolfram/Alpha's demo: Search results meet analytics

Updated: Stephen Wolfram, creator of the Wolfram/Alpha search engine, on Tuesday demonstrated his much ballyhooed "computational knowledge engine" at a talk at Harvard University. Wolfram likened his effort to reproducing a global reference library and said Wolfram/Alpha will launch in "a few weeks." Wolfram's demonstration was one...

Tags: Gross Domestic Product, Algorithm, Search Engine, Analytics, Knowledge, Data, Search Result, Wolfram/Alpha, Stephen Wolfram, Wolfram/Alpha Search Engine, Search, Engineering, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-28

How to make Government 2.0 a reality

Today was the final day of the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.  This morning's mixed bag of keynotes included a fireside talk with the founders of Threadless.com and a great demo of chartbeat, a new real-time website monitoring tool. After the keynotes, I decided to let...

Tags: Web, Agency, Tool, Government, Web 2.0, Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Vertical Industries, Internet, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-04-03

Infamous vendor of "AntiVirus XP" badware sued

The software purveyor behind AntiVirus XP, a fake anti-virus package, has been sued and will hopefully be put out of business. There has been plenty of information available on this organization for some time, yet unsuspecting consumers continue to hand over their own money for what amounts...

Tags: Software, Antivirus, Microsoft Windows XP, Viruses And Worms, Security, Adam O'Donnell

Blog posts 2008-09-30

EA Spore backlash could help end DRM

Guest editorial by Oliver Day The backlash over DRM has finally started to gather serious momentum. Everyday consumers started a campaign to give the highly anticipated game Spore one-star ratings on Amazon. Thousands of Amazon users labeled Spore a poor choice because of...

Tags: Game, Digital-rights Management, Electronic Arts Inc., Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-09-25

Security vs. convenience: Apple chooses poorly

Guest post by Oliver Day My PowerBook is in the third year of its life and has begun falling apart on a regular basis. I’ve had the laptop in for repair at least five times this year alone. Every time I bring my laptop...

Tags: Password, Apple Inc., Oliver, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-08-18

Measuring malware infections in the Chinese Internet

Guest editorial by Oliver Day In June 2008, StopBadware published a report with statistics (.pdf) based on our sample of infected website data from Google. In those statistics we noted that over half of the infections came from addresses originating in China. We've received some attention for...

Tags: China, Infection, Malware, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-29

Apple under pressure to fix Safari 'carpet bomb' flaw

The Google-backed StopBadware.org coalition has called on Apple to rethink its stance on whether the Safari "carpet bomb" issue reported by Nitesh Dhanjani constitutes a serious security risk. Dhanjani originally discovered than it is possible for a booby-trapped Web site to litter the user's Desktop Windows or...

Tags: Apple Safari, Apple Inc., Flaw, Google-backed StopBadware.org Coalition, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Instant Messaging, Cyberthreats, Internet, Online Communications, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-05-20

Harvard organizer: No Comcast employees showed up

Catherine Bracy, the administrative manager at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, the host of Monday's FCC hearing into Comcast's P2P throttling actions, said the people that Comcast hired to "save seats" for employees never gave up those seats, according to the AP. "I...

Tags: Comcast Corp., Fact, Seat, Internet, Federal Government, E-mail, Peer To Peer (P2P), Recruitment & Selection, Government, Online Communications, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-02-28

Comcast's "seat-warming" execs can't be trusted

Comcast hired dozens of "seat-warmers" that kept others from attending a Monday FCC hearing held at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society meeting room for an FCC hearing. God forbid that the public be seen at a hearing intended to solicit public comment. Then they lied...

Tags: Comcast Corp., Internet, Federal Government, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Government, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-02-28

Defragging identity, disclosures and vendor relationship management

In the afternoon session at the Defrag conference, some old friends took the stage to defrag some things. Dick Hardt is well known for his Identity 2.0 presentation on the state of digital identity. He is the CEO and founder of Sxip Identity, which focuses on Internet-scale identity and...

Tags: Data, Identity, Tool, Productivity, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-05

Defrag: Deconstructing the social Web

David Weinberger of the Harvard Berkman Center and author of "Everything is Miscellaneous" kicked of the Defrag conference with a talk titled "The Rise of the Implicit." His thesis is that we have a natural tendency to focus on what's explicit, but the explicit has certain characteristics that mislead us...

Tags: Web, Knowledge, Media, Intelligence, Conference, Weinberger, Semantic Web, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Advertising & Promotion, Strategy, Internet, Management, Marketing, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-05

Best definition of fulfilling work ever - TBIF

Theres never been a better, more succinct statement of a fulfilling week of work that this mornings acronym form Doc Searls: TBIF - Too Bad Its Friday. Love it.This is my last day of a busy and fruitful week at the Berkman Center. (I fly home early tomorrow.) Theres...

Tags: Productivity

Blog posts 2007-04-06

Embarrassed by MySpace foolishness or your criminal convictions? Erase them!

Your reputation is at stake whenever you go online and shoot your mouth off. Your reputation is at stake when you end up drunk and half or fully naked on a MySpace page. And that, my friends, is life. Youre supposed to learn some lessons and move on, hopefully without...

Tags: Web site development, Insurance, MySpace

Blog posts 2007-03-16

Patents get a wiki and a marketplace, now to put them together

Two big announcements about patents hit the wires today. The first, covered by Dan Farber and others, which has the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office USPTO adopting the use of Web-based peer review and crowdsourcing in patent applications reviews, will change the nature of patents. The second, the introduction of...

Tags: Business &, Technology

Blog posts 2007-03-05