The Internet & Society 2007 conference videos are now available for viewing on Democracy: Internet TV. They can also be watched on blip.tv.
We’re working on the mpeg2 files for University Channel so folks at Public Access TV centers and other channels can download them for broadcast.
For the complete conference audio and video archives, please [...]

The video above features a statement by Harvard Law School Professor and Co-Chair of this year’s Internet & Society Conference, Charles Ogletree in response to yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling on school desegregation.
This video is licensed by C-SPAN under a “liberalized copyright policy“. To watch the full video, including [...]

The photo above includes some notes from the “Open Access at University - OpenCourseWare and Beyond” afternoon working group session at yesterday’s IS2K7 conference.
This session provided an opportunity for participants to learn more from Anne Margulies about MIT’s OpenCourseWare project and some of the opportunities and challenges.
Here are some of my notes from the working [...]

Lewis Hyde (Berkman Center Fellow) and Pat Aufderheide (Center for Social Media)
The photo above was taken at yesterday morning’s working group session tltled “University Agenda for Fair Use” at the Internet & Society 2007 (IS2K7) conference at Harvard, co-sponsored by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.
I was particularly interested in this session because it [...]

Here are my notes from Rick Prelinger’s (Prelinger Archives and Internet Archive) keynote at CCNMTL’s Video, Education, and Open Content conference:
Title: “Remarks from a recovered archivist” - The promise of educational media.
There have been 1/4 million of (audio/visual) works produced for educators.

What can we do?

1. Leverage existing resources - we need to free educational materials [...]

Peter Brantley’s (Digital Library Federation) presentation at CCNMTL’s Video, Education and Open Content conference was titled “The Library interface”. He began by showing “A Fair(y) Use Tale” a video mashup by Eric Faden. Here are some notes from Peter’s talk:

What does a library actually do?

There are not many books on music in the [...]

Eric Gordon (Emerson College), Dean Jansen (Berkman Center/Participatory Culture Foundation) and I convened a one-day working group session last Thursday (4/26) at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society to discuss the potential of open source media publishing tools within online learning environments. Around 20 people were in attendence from a variety of academic and [...]

The Chronicle for Higher Education’s Wired Campus Blog discusses “How Digital Libraries will Change Academe” with Internet Archive’s Brewster Kahle.
In the inaugural installation of The Chronicle’s new weekly podcast series, Mr. Kahle offers a progress report on his project and outlines his vision for the future of digital libraries.
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I just learned from one of my colleagues that the new Internet & Society 2007 website is up. IS2K7 will be focusing on the question, “What is the role of University in Cyberspace?”
The Berkman Center’s question tool is integrated on the front page, where you can submit questions that you would like to see [...]