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<-- The Filter --> April 2006
Your regular dose of public-interest Internet news and commentary from
the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School.
FILTER CONTENTS:
[0] From the Editor
[SPECIAL SECTION]
[1] News
[2] Berkman Updates
[3] Community Talk
[4] Networked: Bookmarks, Webcasts, Podcasts, Tags, and Blogposts
[5] Global Voices: Digital Dose of Global Conversations
[6] Community Links
[7] Upcoming Conferences
[8] Staying Connected
[9] Filter Facts
[0] From the Editor
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Before you start in on the Filter, please take a look at our job posting
[SPECIAL SECTION] below. If you know someone who would be interested in
this job post, please share it with them. This month's Filter highlights
include:
*An in-depth look at "Google vs. DOJ," a special feature in Section [1]
written by Clinical Director Phil Malone, intern Katie Chang, and fellow
Wendy Seltzer
*Prof. Jonathan Zittrain answer in Section [3] to this month's Community
Talk question, "Why do the xxx domain and others keep getting pushed
out?" in Section [3]
*David Sasaki at Global Voices shares bloggers' reflections on
International Women's Day in Section [5]
As always, please share your questions, comments, and conference links
with us <[log in to unmask]>.
~ Amanda Michel
[SPECIAL SECTION]: Hiring
The OpenNet Initiative is a university-based organization, of which the
Berkman Center is a member, that researches state-sponsored Internet
filtering worldwide. In the past year, ONI has reported on Internet
filtering in countries such as Yemen, China, Burma, Tunisia, and Iran.
The OpenNet Initiative recently received a generous $3 million grant
from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to advance and
expand its research. As the OpenNet Initiative moves into overdrive,
broadening its already ambitious research agenda and re-doubling
outreach efforts, we are seeking a Research Director to drive the
project's diverse activities and coordinate its world-class team.
For the full Research Director position description, as well as
application information:
<http://jobs.harvard.edu> (job #26062)
[1] NEWS: a bit of what's going on and where to read more
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***Special In-depth Edition: Google v. DOJ -- What's left to talk about
On April 3, Google turned over search records to the Department of
Justice following a year-long dispute. Clinical Director Phil Malone,
fellow Wendy Seltzer, and intern Katie Chang highlight its significance.
On March 17, a federal district court in San Jose, California partly
granted and partly denied a request by the Justice Department to force
Google to produce records related to its search engine. As part of its
defense of the Child Online Protection Act ("COPA"), in an ongoing
lawsuit brought by the ACLU in Pennsylvania, the DOJ last August
subpoenaed Yahoo!, Microsoft MSN, AOL, and Google demanding originally
that they produce the text of every search query entered into their
search engines by all users over a two-month period and every URL in
their search engine indexes. Following negotiations with Google, the DOJ
reduced the scope of its request to a sample of 50,000 URLs and all
search queries entered over a one-week period. While the other companies
complied, Google refused to do so and the government went to court.
The order denied the government's request for specific search queries
entered by Google's users because Judge Ware said that request was
"duplicative" of the request for URLs. Between the two requests, he
found that the demand for search queries raised more concerns over
Google proprietary information, user privacy, and burden to Google from
the loss of user trust. He therefore required Google to produce only a
random sample of 50,000 URLs in its search database records.
While the DOJ subpoena avoided asking for personally identifying
information from Google, the government's request for the text of
specific search queries nevertheless raised serious concerns among
privacy advocates who feared that some searches would necessarily reveal
private information about the users who entered them. Judge Ware
discussed some of these concerns (without resolving them), noting in his
decision that:
"Although the Government has only requested the text strings entered,
basic identifiable information may be found in the test strings when
users search for personal information such as their social security
numbers or credit card numbers through Google . . . . The Court is also
aware of so-called 'vanity searches,' where a user queries his or her
own name perhaps with other information. Thus . . . , a user's search
for '[user name] third trimester abortion san jose,' may raise certain
privacy issues . . . . This concern, combined with the prevalence of
Internet searches for sexually explicit material - generally not
information that anyone wishes to reveal publicly - gives this Court
pause as to whether the search queries themselves may constitute
potentially sensitive information."
In addition, the dispute highlighted a critical fact about search
engines that had previously received little attention -- that they may
collect and retain massive amounts of personally identifying data about
their users and those users' searches. Even though the DOJ subpoena did
not seek to link any individual search query to a particular user,
Google may retain IP address data and other information that could allow
either the government or a private litigant in a future case to do just
that, using a subpoena to learn all of the precise searches made by a
specific person.
Such legally sanctioned intrusions into private personal information may
occur because it is currently unclear whether and to what extent search
engines may be shielded from compelled disclosure by the 1986 Electronic
Communications Privacy Act (ECPA). Even if Google and other online
search companies are careful with the data they keep, their vast
storehouses of information would still be vulnerable to subpoena.
Berkman fellow Wendy Seltzer points out that, while the DOJ subpoena to
Google itself raised limited privacy concerns, "news of the subpoena
started many people thinking about how much of their personal lives they
turn over to search engines -- and how little they know about what
happens with that information next. With a government intent on
listening to communications without warrants, could this subpoena be the
first step toward a broader sweep of search engine records for other
purposes?" Seltzer argues that there are two possible solutions - either
that Google keeps less information or Congress passes statutes to
increase protection of information kept by search engines.
While the former may be unlikely, Seltzer points out that outrage over
the Google subpoena may be just the impetus needed to pass such
legislation. Already, Representative Ed Markey (D-Mass) introduced a
bill in Congress that would require every website operator to delete
information about visitors if the data is no longer required for a
"legitimate" business purpose. The Eliminate Warehousing of Consumer
Internet Data Act of 2006 has received mixed reviews. According to CNET,
it's unclear that it would have much effect on seeking search terms
through a subpoena since it excludes search terms or Internet addresses
from the definition of personal, protected information. NetCoalition, a
lobbying group which represents Internet businesses including Google and
Yahoo, has voiced concern that the bill would let the government, rather
than private businesses, define "legitimate" business purposes. With no
cosponsors, the bill is unlikely to be passed.
In the meantime, other recent developments continue to remind us that,
as we routinely put more and more of our private information in the
hands of third parties, we are increasingly at risk that our information
may be disclosed against our wishes, either through security breaches or
government or private subpoenas. For example, a November 2005 subpoena
from a court-ordered receiver in a federal lawsuit in California, FTC v.
Ameridebt, Inc., et al., sought from Google all documents concerning a
user's Gmail account, including all mails in the account and all
messages the user had deleted. Google's Gmail privacy policy states that
emails deleted by users may take up to 60 days to be deleted from its
active servers and "may remain in our offline backup systems."
Outside the email context, numerous firms provide online data storage
services where users can store files, records, photos and other data.
Amazon recently announced its S3 Simple Storage Service which, though
apparently initially targeted at developers, allows subscribers to store
large volumes of personal files on the service provider's computer. Data
stored in such ways may be more vulnerable to disclosure if the
government and even private litigants can demand access to it using just
a subpoena to the service provider, and particularly if the data
continues to be kept in some manner even after the user has taken steps
to delete it. As Berkman fellow Dan Gillmor points out, "What's possibly
creepier (than the government going on fishing expeditions in our data)
is that companies like Google keep vast storehouses of information that
they -- and only they -- decide what to do with, and their transparency
on what they do is seriously deficient."
[2] BERKMAN UPDATES: news from in and around the Center
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Upcoming Event: Bloggership Symposium
~Arielle Silver
On April 28th, the Berkman Center will host "Bloggership: How Blogs are
Transforming Legal Scholarship." The conference will feature
presentations from some of the biggest names from the legal academic
blogosphere, including Glenn Reynolds (InstaPundit), Eugene Volokh (The
Volokh Conspiracy), Ann Althouse (Althouse), and Larry Solum (Legal
Theory Blog). Professor Paul Caron of the University of Cincinnati
College of Law organized the conference and will moderate its
discussions. Caron is author of the Tax Prof Blog, as well as the
publisher and editor-in-chief of the Law Professor Blogs Network.
For more information, including the conference schedule, please see:
<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/bloggership>
StopBadware.org 1st Report Release
~ Luis Villa
This past January the Berkman Center and the Oxford Internet Institute
announced StopBadware.org, an initiative aimed at providing the public
with information about the worst badware offenders. On March 22,
StopBadware.org released its first series of reports. The reports
examined four applications - Kazaa, Waterfalls 3, MoviePipe, and SpyAxe
- that were reported by consumers through submitted stories and
technical reports.
These reports reflect a lot of work on the part of the Stopbadware.org
team, of which I've been lucky to take part as an engineer and project
manager. While most of our time was spent documenting malicious
behavior, it also involved thinking through many complicated issues. For
example, if one piece of software comes attached to another and the
second piece of software is badware, is the first guilty by association?
How do you draw the line between a behavior that is acceptable with
users permission and behavior that is always unacceptable? And what does
it mean to "ask permission" anyway?
We hope that the resulting reports have made these discussions
accessible to everyone (hopefully more than just dry, factual
documentation of an application's popups!). So far, so good - nearly
50,000 people have read the reports since they were posted and many have
commented on them. If you want to be alerted when our next round comes
out, you can "sign up here":
<http://stopbadware.org/home/announce>.
iLaw Mexico
~ Catherine Bracy
Our most recent iLaw in Mexico City on March 16-17 was a great success.
Attended by over 100 people, it marked the first foreign iLaw where all
six current faculty members-Profs. Lessig, Zittrain, Benkler, Fisher,
Nesson, and Palfrey- were in attendance. We were also pleased to be
joined by Clara-Luz Alvarez, the Commissioner of Mexico's Federal
Telecommunications Commission, who co-lectured with John Palfrey on
Spam. The seminar also coincided with the launch of Creative Commons
Mexico (<http://creativecommons.org/worldwide/mx/>). The next iLaw
program will be held in Lima, Peru on June 27-28 and will feature Profs
Fisher and Lessig with a focus on intellectual property.
If you would like to receive information about iLaw Peru, please
consider joining our monthly 'conferences, workshops, and seminars'
mailing list. <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/signup/>
iLaw Mexico website:
<http://www.ilaw.org.mx/home.php>
Creative Commons Mexico:
<http://creativecommons.org.mx/>
GlobalVoices covered iLaw Mexico here:
<http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/03/17/creative-commons-mexico/>
Upcoming Event: "Beyond Broadcast: Reinventing Public Media in a
Participatory Culture"
~ Susie Lindsay
What will public media look like in the future? How can broadcasters
utilize the explosion of new participatory media technologies?
Established broadcasters have great expertise in producing inspiring,
educational, and entertaining programming - programming that is created
by few and distributed to many. New media technologies are providing
opportunities for personal and collaborative production. Any individual
can be a producer - and find many outlets to distribute - yet few have
the brand or trust that public and community broadcasters do. Since
public broadcasting's mandate is to serve the public interest - there is
a wonderful conceptual connection between participatory opportunities in
new media and public broadcasters. But how would it look? How would it
work?
Come join the Berkman Center on May 12-13 for *Beyond Broadcast:
Reinventing Public Media in a Participatory Culture.* Topics to be
discussed on day one include: what is developing in this space; what
broadcasters and emerging web-based participatory services are doing;
law and policy; and the sustainability and organization of communities
online. Day two of the conference is the second meeting of the Open
Media Developers Summit and will focus on implementing the technologies
and processes discussed on day one. Rather than a traditional meeting
with panels and speakers, this day is about getting a group of smart
people with diverse view points to work on these issues.
Check out the website, register for the conference, and comment on our
blog at <http://www.beyondbroadcast.net>. Also note - any tags with
beyondbroadcast (one word) will be fed into the front page of our blog!
3] COMMUNITY TALK: Your questions and comments
===============================================
How it works: Each month we select a question submitted from the Berkman
community and answer it. If you've been puzzling over a recent event or
a question you'd like to ask, email it to [log in to unmask]
by April 21.
Featured Question: "Why do the xxx domain and others keep getting pushed
out? It seems to me that there is very little downside to adding this
domain." ~ Jason C.
According to Prof. Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Internet Governance
and Regulation at Oxford University and Visiting Professor at Harvard
Law: "People should be perfectly happy to see lots of new top-level
domains-dozens or even hundreds of them. I think that having them be
"sponsored," as .museum is, might even be helpful for certain
applications-bona fide banks might exist in .bank, for example, making
it harder for phishers to trick people into thinking they were at
another web site. But domain names work best when they are not meant to
vouch for or against the content found within them, because they're not
really built to digitally certify anything. In the meantime, we should
be indifferent to whether .xxx is created-or even to whether US
Government pressure delays a decision by ICANN on the matter. This is
because domain names themselves don't really matter these days [people
use search]. It should come as no surprise, given the way ICANN is
structured, that it's easy for any number of powerful parties to stop
something it wants to do."
[4] NETWORKED: PAPERS, BOOKMARKS, WEBCASTS, PODCASTS, TAGS, AND BLOGPOSTS
Links to Berkman conversations happening online
===============================================================
Technology Developments:
[BerkmanAudio] Berkman Discussion About Gather.com
<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/audio/uploads/45/46/david_w_archive_2006-03-28
.mp3>
[BerkmanAudio] Berkman Discussion with Roger Dingledine of Tor
<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/audio/uploads/45/41/dingledine_2006-03-14.mp3>
Citizen Media and the Future of Journalism:
[BLOGPOST] Dan Gillmor, "Straw Men Versus Citizen Journalists"
<http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/04/02/straw-men-versus-citizen-journalists/>
Digital Media
[PAPER] Tim Armstrong, "Digital Rights Management and the Process of
Fair Use"
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=885371#PaperDownload>
[BLOGPOST] Wendy Seltzer, "Don't Miss CATO vs. the DMCA"
<http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/archives/2006/03/21/dont_miss_cato_vs_the_dmc
a.html>
[BLOGPOST] Urs Gasser, "French Supreme Court Upholds Legality of DRM on
DVD"
<http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ugasser/2006/03/03#a695>
[BLOGPOST] John Palfrey, "Idea: Creative Source Licenses"
<http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2006/03/12#a1074>
Internet Politics, Governance, and Regulation:
[BLOGPOST] "Basic Design Principles for Anti-Circumvention Legislation
(Draft)" Urs Gasser,
<http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ugasser/2006/03/22#a744>
[INTERVIEW] Diane Cabell on WIPO, UDRP, ICANN, and Creative Commons
<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/home?wid=10&func=viewSubmission&sid=973>
[WIKI] John Palfrey's class debates merits of public wi-fi online on wiki
<http://hcs.harvard.edu/~cyberlaw/wiki/index.php/Wireless_Philadelphia#Welco
me_to_Our_Wireless_Philadelphia_Debate.21>
[REPORT] OpenNet Initiative, "Internet Filtering in Yemen"
<http://www.opennetinitiative.net/studies/yemen/index.html>
Internet and Culture:
[PODCAST] David Weinberger on the future of knowledge
<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/audio/podcast2?wid=12&func=viewSubmission&sid=
54>
Advocacy:
[WEBSITE] Free Hao Wu, Global Voices Regional Editor
<http://ethanzuckerman.com/haowu/>
Internet and Developing Countries:
[INTERVIEW] Mike Best on the use of computers and communication
techniques in social and economic development
<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/home?wid=10&func=viewSubmission&sid=965>
[WIKI] Charles Nesson, "Justice in Jamaica"
<http://hcs.harvard.edu/~cyberlaw/wiki/index.php/Restorative_Justice_in_Jama
ica>
[5] Global Voices:
Digital Dose of Global Conversations
============================================
Global Voices, a non-profit global citizens' media project, is sponsored
by and was launched from the Berkman Center by Berkman Fellows Rebecca
MacKinnon and Ethan Zuckerman. David Sasaki, Global Voices Latin America
Regional Editor, compiled the monthly digest below. Please check out
Global Voices at <http://www.globalvoicesonline.org>
Inspired by International Women's Day, bloggers across the globe
commented on the achievements, accolades, and the continuing hardships
of their mothers, sisters and daughters. Beginning in Africa, Sokari
Ekine surveyed the reflections of Africa's female bloggers in a two part
series, "Honouring African Women."
Part I: <http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/03/08/iwd-honouring-
african-women-
Part II: <http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/03/08/iwd-honouring-
african-women-
Arab bloggers also honored the women of their lives this month with
Mothers' Day homages in Lebanon and proud commemoration of the feats and
resilience of Iraqi women despite having "to cope with the prejudice of
some western journalists."
Lebanon: <http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/03/19/this-week-on-
the-lebanese-blogosphere-mom-dad-and-god/>
Iraq: <http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/03/17/landing-at-the-
iraqi-blogodrome-7/>
Continuing the theme, two countries of the Americas inaugurated their
first female head of state. Georgia Popplewell took a look at how
Jamaican bloggers responded to Portia Simpson-Miller's inauguration
while Rosario Lizana gauged the reaction of Chilean bloggers to the
swearing in of Michelle Bachelet.
Jamaica: <http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/03/31/the-
blogosphere-responds-to-jamaicas-first-woman-prime-minister/>
Chile: <http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/03/11/fisrt-woman-
president-in-chile/>
AIDS activist Hu Jia and documentarian/blogger Wu Hao were both recently
detained by authorities in China without being charged. John Kennedy
points out that "what is significant about both these two separate
incidents is the role blogs have played." Hu Jia's wife, Zeng Jin Yan
and Wu Hao's sister, Nina both started weblogs to document their
individual ordeals of freeing their loved ones. Thanks to Kennedy's
translations, you can read the reaction of Wu Hao's sister when she
found out that Hu Jia was set free.
<http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/04/01/wives-and-sisters-against-the-
chinese-communist-partys-war-on-free-speech/>
"Don't Block the Blog!" is the message and campaign of Pakistani
bloggers who have been unable to access their Blogger-based blogs since
February 28th, just days before U.S. President George W. Bush visited
the country. But Omer Alvie explained that Bush's visit wasn't the
catalyst for the block.
<http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/03/05/pakistan-blog-o-block/>
Thousands of Belorussian protesters took to Kastrychnitskaya Square in
Minsk to protest election irregularities and the authoritarian ruling
style of President Lukashenko. In the days that followed the election a
small "tent city" formed with the hope that a "Denim Revolution" would
transpire much like Ukraine's "Orange" Revolution and Krygyzstan's
"Tulip" Revolution. Veronica Khokhlova captured the online commentary
from the protesters in real time. And then, once the protesters were
forcibly removed by riot police, Khokhlova demonstrated how "Post-Soviet
bloggers continue a good old Soviet tradition of coping with reality and
expressing dissent through political jokes."
Protest: <http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/03/23/belarus-
protest-stories-and-conversations/>
Jokes: <http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/04/02/belarus-
political-jokes/>
When Francophone Editor Alice Backer sat down to interview Anthony Mica
Katombe of the Democratic Republic of the Congo via instant messenger,
she hardly could have expected that gunmen were surrounding his hometown
of Kinshasa that Kofi Annan was visiting to check in on a rocky
electoral process, and that an electrical outage would interrupt their
chat. Regardless, they both overcame the obstacles and have an
intriguing conversation to show for it. When asked why the DRC has a
more active blogging community than neighboring countries, Katombe
responds, "he who aches the most screams the loudest."
<http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/03/29/drc-a-chat-with-blogger-
tony-katombe/>
[6] COMMUNITY LINKS:
Featuring our friends and affiliates
============================================
iCommons <http://icommons.org/>
Stop AOL's Email Tax!, Electronic Frontier Foundation,
<http://www.dearaol.com/>
Many To Many: Public Media and the Blogosphere, a new video made
available by the Center for Social Media
<http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/future/m2m.mov>
IP Quotes, Public Knowledge
<http://www.publicknowledge.org/resources/quotes>
"Digital Search & Seizure: Updating Privacy Protections to Keep Pace
with Technology" report, Center for Democracy and Technology
<http://www.cdt.org/publications/digital-search-and-seizure.pdf>
"Bound by Law?" comic, Duke Law School's Center for the Study of the
Public Domain,
<http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/digital.html>
Peer-to-Patent-Project, New York Law School's Institute for Law & Policy,
<http://dotank.nyls.edu/communitypatent/about.html>
[7] UPCOMING CONFERENCES
========================
Upcoming Berkman Conferences:
* "Bloggership: How Blogs are Transforming Legal Scholarship" will be
held Friday, April 28, 2006 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. in the Ames Moot
Courtroom on the second floor of Austin Hall at Harvard Law School. The
conference is free and open to the public. For more information,
including the conference schedule, please see:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/bloggership
* "Beyond Broadcast: Reinventing Public Media in a Participatory
Culture" will be held May 12-13 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Get
involved on the planning wiki: <http://www.beyondbroadcast.net/>
CONFERENCE WATCH
* April 5-7: International Symposium on Intelligent Environments:
Improving the quality of life in a changing world - Cambridge, United
Kingdom,
<http://research.microsoft.com/ero/iep/isie06/>
* April 6-7: Association for Learning Technology (ALT) Spring Conference
and Research Seminar 2006 - The Netherlands,
<http://www.alt.ac.uk/conferences.php>
* April 10-12: Open Source and Sustainability 2006 - Oxford, United
Kingdom,
<http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/events/2006-04-10-12/>
* April 11-13: International Conference on Web Information Systems and
Technologies (WEBIST) - Setubal, Portugal,
<http://www.webist.org/>
* April 18-20: Asia Commons: Asian Conference on the Digital Commons -
Bangkok, Thailand,
<http://www.asia-commons.net/>
* April 20: LIFE: Life Cycle Information for E-Literature - London,
United Kingdom,
<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ls/lifeproject/conference.shtml/>
* April 20-21: Innovate and Motivate: Next Generation Libraries - Online
conference,
<http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlevents/virtualconference.htm>
* April 21-23: Access to Knowledge - New Haven, Connecticut,
<http://islandia.law.yale.edu/isp/a2k.html/>
* April 26-28: E-gov Asia 2006: The Asian e-Government Conference -
Bangkok, Thailand,
<http://www.egovonline.net/egovasia/index.asp/>
* April 26-27: Technology Policy for a Flattening World: Educause Policy
2006 - Washington, DC,
<http://www.educause.edu/Policy/1477/>
* April 26-28: The Impact of Internet on the Mass Media in Europe -
Delphi, Greece,
<http://www.cost-a20.wb.st/>
* April 26-28: e-gov Asia 2006: The Asian e-Government Conference -
Bangkok, Thailand,
<http://www.egovonline.net/egovasia/index.asp/>
* April 27-28: ECEG 2006: 6th European Conference on e-Government -
Marburg, Germany,
<http://www.academic-conferences.org/eceg/eceg2006/eceg06-home.htm/>
* April 28: NETLAW 2006 - Toronto, Canada,
<http://www.canadianinstitute.com/Telecommunications___Technology/Netlaw_200
6.htm/>
* May 3-5: IST-Africa 2006 - Pretoria, South Africa,
<http://www.ist-africa.org/Conference2006/default.asp>
* May 17-21: ICTe Africa - Nairobi, Kenya,
<http://nepadcouncil.org/ICTeAfrica2006/>
* May 18-19: Persuasive '06: First International Conference on
Persuasive Technology for Human Well-being, The Netherlands,
<http://www.persuasivetechnology.org/>
* May 20-21: OPML Camp, <http://opml.com>
* May 22: Collaborative Web Tagging Workshop - Edinburgh, Scotland,
<http://www.rawsugar.com/www2006/cfp.html>
* May 23-26: WWW 2006: 15th International World Wide Web Conference -
Edinburgh, Scotland,
<http://www2006.org/>
* May 24: Supporting Open, Distance and eLearning (ODeL) in African
Universities - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,
<http://www.avu.org/workshops/odel2006/>
* May 24-26: eLearning Africa: 1st International Conference on ICT for
Development, Education and Training - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,
<http://www.elearning-africa.com/conference.php>
* May 24-26: IASSIST (International Association for Social Science
Information Services & Technology) 2006 - Ann Arbor, Michigan,
<http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/iassist/>
* May 31-June 1: Legal Aspects of e-Repositories and e-Collections -
Coventry, United Kingdom,
<http://www.jisclegal.ac.uk/events/eRep_06/eRep_program.htm>
[8] STAYING CONNECTED:
how to find out about Berkman's weekly events
=====================================================
* Every Friday we feature the week's online conversations in the Berkman
Buzz. If you would like to receive the Buzz via email, please send an
email to amichel AT cyber.law.harvard.edu with "Buzz subscribe" as the
subject line. To take a look at last week's Berkman Blog Buzz, go here:
<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/home?wid=10&func=viewSubmission&sid=914>
* We webcast every Tuesday Luncheon Speakers event. Luncheon Series
events start at 12:30 pm Eastern Standard Time. The webcast link is
<http://harmony.law.harvard.edu/webcast.sdp> We will also host an IRC
chat during the discussion - drop in and we'll take your questions from
there:
<irc://irc.freenode.net/Berkman>. Tune in!
* If you are unable to tune in to one of our events, please check out
Berkman's Audio Event Archive to listen in at a later time.
<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/audio/archive>
The Berkman Center's audio and podcasts are also available through
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<http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=135238584&
s=143441>
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