Berkman Buzz: Week of February 25, 2008

BERKMAN BUZZ:  A look at the past week's online Berkman conversations.  If you'd like to receive this by email, just sign up here.
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School
Week of February 18, 2008

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What's going on...take your pick or browse below.

 *David Ardia announces the reversal of last week's Wikileaks decision
*Ethan Zuckerman blogs from TED2008
*Kevin Parker liveblogs the Berkman-hosted FCC hearing at Harvard Law School
*Berkman Center leads Internet Safety Task Force
*OpenNet Innitiative comments on Pakistan's bungled blocking of YouTube
*David Weinberger liveblogs Clay Shirk's talk on protest culture at the Berkman Center
*Weekly Global Voice: "Ecuador: My Mobile Voice and Citizen Journalism"

(It was a busy week so we've tossed in some bonus links in the full buzz)

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The full buzz.

"We've just received word that the judge in the Wikileaks case, Jeffrey White, has vacated the Permanent Injunction that ordered Wikileaks' domain name registrar, Dynadot, to immediately disable the entire Wikileaks.org domain name and remove all DNS hosting records. The judge also refused to renew the Temporary Restraining Order that enjoined Wikileaks from publishing or distributing copies of purported bank documents and tentatively denied the plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction, indicating that he would issue an order addressing that motion in the near future..."
David Ardia, "Judge in Wikileaks Case Reverses Course, Wikileaks.org Is Back Online"
Also on Wikileaks:
*Coalition Media Organizations Challenges Prior Restraints Wikileaks Case

"Samantha Power has a hell of a resume. She’s a celebrated journalist, a Pulitzer-winning author, a Harvard professor and an Obama advisor. She deserves the recognition she gets - she’s one of the smartest people in the world on foreign policy, and especially on the subject of mass atrocities.  She starts with a story about the Rwandan genocide, which killed 800,000 people in a very short time, with almost no intervention from the outside world..."
Ethan Zuckerman,  "TED2008: Samantha Power on stopping genocide"
Also on TED2008:
*Reconcilliation

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 "Panelist 2 - Prof. Benkler. Two long term issues in internet policy. Internet is about users connnection to each other, not to providers. What we need is infrastructure, not unending rules. Web 2.0 is about people connecting to each other. Duopoly competition requires us to have have regulation that keeps networks open, down to the physical layer.  Unbundling and open access are the heart of the 96 Act. We however, have created a duoply structure that has created the worst of all possible worlds..."
Excerpted from Kevin Parker's blogpost, "Live Blogging the FCC Hearing"
Also on the FCC and Net Neutrality:
*http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/02/27/frames-that-prevent-a-neutral-net/
*http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/02/23/beyond_net_neutrality/

 "The Berkman Center for Internet & Society today announced that it will head a newly formed Internet Safety Technical Task Force.The Task Force, comprised of leading Internet businesses and organizations - including AOL, AT&T, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, MySpace, NCMEC, Symantec, Verizon and Yahoo! - will focus on identifying effective online safety tools and technologies that can be used by many companies across multiple platforms..."
Becca Tabasky, "The Berkman Center Announces Formation of Internet Safety Task Force to Identify and Develop Online Safety Tools"

 "This was a dark weekend for the Internet community in Pakistan. A series of unfortunate events started with an order for ISPs to block YouTube in Pakistan, which naturally riled citizens and advocates of free speech. Making things worse, the implementation of the block by one of the ISPs made YouTube inaccessible to most of the Internet around the world for two hours. Inadvertently, much of the global Internet audience has now experienced filtering..."
OpenNet Initiative, "Pakistan’s Internet has a bad weekend"
Also on Pakistan and YouTube:
*http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/02/25/how-a-pakistani-isp-briefly-shut-down-youtube/

 "Clay Shirky is giving a small talk at the Berkman Center, before giving his bigger talk this evening. His topic this afternoon is “protest culture.” [I’m live blogging, getting it wrong, etc. This is certainly far less coherent than Clay’s actual presentation, which was (as always) pristinely structured and clear. His talk will be up at Media Berkman before too long.]  One of the easiest examples of this, he says, started in early 1999. A NW Airlines flight was landed in Detroit and got stuck on the tarmac for 7.5 hours. There was a class action lawsuit that got settled out of court and agreed to a toothless code of conduct..."
David Weinberger, "Clay Shirky on protest culture"
Also on Clay Shirky:
*http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/02/28/clay-shirkys-book-talk/
*http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/idblog/2008/02/28/clay-shirky-on-organizing-without-organizations/

 "In an outlying neighborhood of Quito, Ecuador, a brightly-covered mini-van sets up shop for a day in order to teach about the world of citizen journalism. Inside the van, called “Mi Voz Móvil” (My Mobile Voice), there are long benches and even a desk, just perfect enough to accomodate a budding journalist..."
Global Voices, "Ecuador: My Mobile Voice and Citizen Journalism"