This week’s Berkman Buzz

• Jonathan Zittrain hosts Computers Gone Wild [link]

• Yochai Benkler discusses the Megaupload indictment [link]

• Zeynep Tufekci argues that Twitter’s new tweet blocking policy is good for free speech [link]

• Wayne Marshall explores nationalism and tradition in Congolese hip-hop [link]

• Ethan Zuckerman liveblogs the launch of David Weinberger’s “Too Big To Know” [link]

• Weekly Global Voices: Serbia: The Media War Against Angelina Jolie [link]

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This week’s Berkman Buzz

• Dan Gillmor explores the role of the news ombudsman[link

• danah boyd is "Generation Flux" [link]

• Ethan Zuckerman liveblogs Wael Abbas’s talk on video and social media in pre-revolution Egypt [link]

• metaLAB reviews Jeffrey Schnapp’s new Electric Information Age Book [link]

• Herdict needs help with a mystery [link]

• Weekly Global Voices: Kenya/Somalia: Twitter War: Kenyan Army Versus Al Shabaab [link]

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Berkman Buzz

This week’s Berkman Buzz:

• The Internet & Democracy Project investigates DDoS attacks during recent elections in Russia: link

• Public Radio Exchange is launching a new Public Media Accelerator:
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• danah boyd explores the role of technology in human trafficking: link

• Jonathan Zittrain discusses the proposed SOPA compromise: link

• Ethan Zuckerman welcomes (sort of) Al-Shabaab to Twitter: link

• Weekly Global Voices: “Russia: Analyzing the Possible Scale of Saturday’s Election Protests”
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This week’s Berkman Buzz:

• John Palfrey and Jonathan Zittrain advocate in Science for better data for a better Internet:
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• Mayo Fuster Morell discusses the Spanish Revolution and the Internet: link

• Jonathan Zittrain warns that the personal computer is dead: link

• Zeynep Tufekci explores the pack mentality in journalism: link

• The Citizen Media Law Project writes about undercover police monitoring of the Occupy protests in Nashville: link

• Weekly Global Voices: “Global Voices Podcast: Technology that Empowers!”
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This week’s Berkman Buzz:

• VIDEO: Justin Reich discusses technology and educational equality:
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• Juan Carlos de Martin publishes an op-ed in La Stampa on Italy’s digital agenda [in Italian] link

• The Citizen Media Law Project reviews an ACLU/NAACP lawsuit revolving around an ad at the Philly International Airport link

• Dan Gillmor argues against SOPA link

• Herdict attends the first EU Hackathon link

• Harry Lewis reviews this week’s government attacks on freedom of speech and thought link

• Weekly Global Voices: “Zambia: Porn Video Sparks Debate on Gender, Culture and Morality” link

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This week’s Berkman Buzz:

• Wendy Seltzer reports on last week’s ICANN public meeting:
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• The OpenNet Initiative makes its global filtering data available for download and reuse: link

• Ethan Zuckerman explores the phenomenon of the “rebuttal tweet”: link

• Jeffrey Schnapp discusses physicality in the libraries of the future:
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• The Citizen Media Law Project keeps track of ACTA: link

• Weekly Global Voices: “Global Voices Podcast: Bridging the Language Gaps”
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This week’s Berkman Buzz:

• Ethan Zuckerman explores mapping and storytelling at Occupy Wall Street: link

• Dan Gillmor critiques the WikiLeaks payments blockade: link

• The Citizen Media Law Project spots Bigfoot fighting for free speech: link

• Herdict covers China’s censorship of the ‘Occupy’ movement: link

• Weekly Global Voices: “United Kingdom: At Age 77, a Life of Inspiration”
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This week’s Berkman Buzz:

• The Digital Public Library of America announces $5 Million in Funding from the Sloan Foundation and Arcadia Fund:
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• Ethan Zuckerman recaps Beth Coleman’s presentation on “Tweeting the Revolution”
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• John Palfrey describes teaching at the Harvard Graduate School of Design on the history, present, and future of libraries
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• Rebecca MacKinnon examines why censorship is a central issue in Tunisian political discourse and debates
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• The Youth and Media Project launches a new website
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• The Citizen Media Law Project reports on how one doctor’s complaint turned a public database private
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• Weekly Global Voices: “Israel: Joy and Anger Continue Over Shalit Deal”
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This week’s Berkman Buzz:

• Andrés Monroy-Hernández explores the link between information technology and economic growth:
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• Doc Searls explains the needs for cars on the Net:
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• Dan Gillmor reviews Amazon’s new Kindle Fire:
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• The Citizen Media Law Project praises Al Jazeera’s embrace of Creative Commons:
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• Benjamin Mako Hill on science as dance:
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• Weekly Global Voices: “Zambia: Netizens Start Countdown to 90 Day Change Promise”
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This week’s Berkman Buzz:

• Mayo Fuster Morell publishes a new paper on “The Unethics of Sharing: Wikiwashing”: link

• Andrés Monroy-Hernandez considers terminology discussions as probes: link

• David Weinberger interviews LibraryThing founder Tim Spalding: link

• Dan Gillmor discusses what the new Facebook means for net freedom: link

• Stuart Shieber explores peer review: link

• Weekly Global Voices: “Uganda: Anti-Museveni Author Freed After Five Days”
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