User:BBallou

Resume:

Brendan Ballou is a research assistant at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, focusing on the Institutional Cooperation Project. Previously he has worked on the Open Net Initiative and Jonathan Zittrain's Future of the Internet blog. Beyond the Berkman Center, Brendan has been involved with Public Knowledge, Free Culture, and One Laptop Per Child. Brendan is also an avid runner, a terrible cook, and an okay stand-up comic.

Contact data:

• Brendan Ballou - brendan.ballou(at)gmail.com
• Phone - 917 684 3900

Role in the team:

• Primarily assist Carol shaping the methodology and finding and cataloging relevant bibliography.

Weekly tasks and results:

week of 2/16/09:

• minor revisions to the wiki, upload old bibliography
  • result: completed.
    • Carol feedback 02/24: please, insert links for papers or its abstracts
• write blog post on defining the commons
  • result: completed.
    • Carol feedback 02/24: Thank you. For now the blog is not a priority anymore.

week of 2/23/09:

• read up on Neil Fligstein, Pierre Bourdieu, and Actor Network Theory.
  • result: completed.
    • Carol feedback 02/24: I had a meeting with Yochai today and we will focus exclusively for the next month on field study. Thus, the follow-up task here is develop a skeleton in the wiki to be addressed by the RAs in each field. This skeleton will guide the RAs and me in our field-research. Neil Fligstein and Pierre Bourdieu may be helpful in this activity. We should schedule a call to discuss this. My agenda allow a call tomorrow afternoon afternoon. You should call me as soon as you can, after 2pm.
• send comments on Case Coding system
  • status: completed
• Build a site map for our wiki, since it is expanding a lot.
  • status: completed
• transfer site contents to public wiki, once it is established
  • status: completed. If everyone can check to make sure that the content they wrote was transferred correctly, it would be most appreciated
• clean up the wiki
  • in process. I've tried different formats for the front page to increase readability. Feedback is most appreciated - I'd hate to design something that no one else finds readable
• add links to the Economics of IP bilbiography
  • status: long-term ongoing
• Create a "Google documents" accessible by our group, where we can share and see documents that are being produced and are too complex (in terms of formatting) to insert in our wiki. Send link, user and password for ICP working team participants. Create a "neutral" user with "neutral" password that we can give to Yochai or visitors.
  • status: completed. It turns out that our google groups already has a file-upload featre. http://groups.google.com/group/icp-team/files?upload=1. It does not look like we can create blind user-ids for visitors (you need to log in using an email address), but we can either lend them our emails/passwords, or invite them to join directly: http://groups.google.com/group/icp-team/members_invite

week of 3/2/09

• biotech related links - organize them into the categories you find appropriate and write 2 lines on what they are about: https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/team/wiki/Links_on_Bio
  • status: in process
• Master list from the peer-production group - go through it and list the projects that may be interesting for us to treat as entities in our work: https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/team/wiki/Biotechnology_-_Genomic_and_Proteomics#Possible_Cases_of_Study
  • status: in process
• begin working on biotech project:
  • define entities
  • develop list of links
  • begin working on bibliography
  • perform technorati search - find list of blogs to watch
• Read Biotechnology: Essays from its heartland
  • status:
• Read "Intellectual property institutions and the panda's thumb"
  • status:
• organize and improve page:
  • https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/commonsbasedresearch/Field_Research_Methodology

note: 3/1/09 is my midterm week, so I will be a little slow to work. However, I should be able to catch up over the weekend
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