<-- The Filter --> March/April 2007
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 Center
[1] Features
[2] Networked: Bookmarks, Webcasts, Podcasts,
and Blogposts
[3] Global Voices: Digital Dose of Global Conversations
[4]
Community Links
[5] Upcoming Conferences
[6] Staying Connected
[7]
Filter Facts
[0] From the
Center
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It's
hard to believe - indeed, we are only just coming to terms with it - but the
Berkman Center turns ten this year (I think that's at least a century in
internet time, but because wikipedia doesn't have a conversion table, that's
only a guess). It somehow seems fitting that a variety of projects years
in the making are now coming to fruition, beginning with this month's
publication of two groundbreaking books written by Berkman Fellows John
Clippinger and David Weinberger on identity and meaning, respectively. In
addition to overviews of their work, this helping of the Filter also features
Berkman Founder Charlie Nesson talking with MIT OpenCourseWare guru Anne
Margulies. She and the program are an inspiration and particularly
relevant because this Spring's Internet & Society Conference, the sixth in
the biennial series, focuses on the role of University and its relationships
with other content creators and the Net itself, examining knowledge beyond
authority. We've begun to reflect on the past decade and will continue to
over the course of the year, but would love to hear from you: your memories,
associations and experiences with Berkman, so please send thoughts, pictures,
even cards to tell us what this community has meant to you -- and of course,
what we could do to mean more.
-- Colin Maclay, Managing Director,
Berkman Center --
The Berkman Center is also hiring for a number of long,
short, and summer term positions with existing and upcoming projects.
Please visit our employment page <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/employment>
to learn more about these opportunities and to find out how to
apply.
[1] FEATURES: a bit of what's going on at Berkman and
where to read more
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Conversation with Anne Margulies, Director, MIT
OpenCourseWare
Excerpts from a March interview with Charles Nesson, Founder,
Berkman Center
ANNE MARGULIES: Even though Open Courseware was
originally envisioned to be a public service initiative for MIT, one of the
greatest things about Open Courseware is that it has had some wonderful benefits
for MIT. One of the benefits: we really clarified the whole intellectual
property regimen at MIT. For the first time with Open Courseware it was made
very clear that the course materials that are created in MIT belong to the
faculty member. We get permission from the individual faculty member to
publish course materials on our site. The faculty member grants to MIT a
nonexclusive license to publish them on the web. We use the Creative Commons
non-commercial license on our site. This approach to intellectual property
ownership was really a pivotal and very strategic decision that MIT made, which
the administration and faculty made together. The idea to give away the
materials came from a faculty committee. The administration liked the
recommendation and embraced the idea of making shared knowledge as a public
good. They went around department by department and tried the idea out on
the faculty. MIT is different from Harvard in being a more unified
faculty. MIT faculty see themselves as belonging to the MIT community.
Here at Harvard I think faculty think of themselves first as belonging to their
school, and then maybe the university. The process of engaging Open
Courseware engaged the entire MIT faculty, about 1000 faculty members, in these
department meetings. They considered and formed a general consensus that the
faculty believed it was a good idea. MIT then went forward with
OpenCourseWare as an institutional initiative. It still is voluntary. Each
and every faculty member decides whether or not they want their materials out,
and they decide whether or not they want their course videotaped and whether
they want their videos out.
CHARLES NESSON: Suppose I am a
faculty member and I want my course videoed, what rules do I have to
follow?
ANNE MARGULIES: First, we do worry a lot about making sure
that we don't infringe on anyone else's copyright, so you as a faculty member,
if your intention is to publish it openly on the web through us, will work with
us to make sure that you are not inadvertently putting in your videotape other
people's copyrighted materials, showing movie clips that we don't have
permission for and things like that. You need to make sure that we really
have permission for what goes up openly on the web. Second, we protect the
privacy of students. At your first class of the semester, you will announce to
the students that it is going to be videotaped. If students don't want to be
part of the videotape, there is a special part of the room where they can sit so
as not to be on a camera. We were counseled that we need not get special
permissions for students’ voices off camera.
CHARLES NESSON: Why
are faculty putting their video up at MIT? What’s the payoff for
them?
ANNE MARGULIES: Partly the payoff is greater visibility for
their work and their expertise. They contribute to their discipline through
their research, but now they are able to contribute to the teaching of their
discipline by sharing the way that they teach. It helps them to contribute to
their discipline in another way. Usually the ones who are interested in being
videotaped are the more gifted and the more passionate about teaching. They are
getting tremendous fan mail from people all over the world telling them that
it’s inspiring. People who hated physics or never understood calculus are
thanking them. It’s very gratifying for the faculty to see that they are having
an impact beyond MIT, which I think is similar to what, perhaps, what you
described in the way you think about it.
CHARLES NESSON: Could you
break your 30 million (budget) down into different categories? ...How much of it
goes to sorting out copyright issues?
ANNE MARGULIES: ...37 percent...
When OpenCourseWare started, MIT assumed we would get sued. There was no way we
were not going even inadvertently to infringe on somebody. The publishers’
eyes were on us. All eyes were on us. Because of that we took a very
risk-adverse position. We review with the faculty member the content of their
course and ask them to identify for us any of the graphs or charts or any other
chunks of third-party copyrighted content. Our OpenCourseWare team works with
them to get permissions. If it’s a graph or chart, we pull it out and
replace it with a new original object that we create and then license
openly. All of the content on our site is truly openly licensed. That is a
labor intensive process.
CHARLES NESSON: Have you had any
particular connection with library at MIT? Is there any sense that you are
overlapping function or that their function is reaching out in your direction or
anything like that?
ANNE MARGULIES: No overlap. We have
collaborated with them in a number of areas. They have helped us create
the MediData taxonomy that we use. They have built an archive so that when
we update or replace a course, we don’t lose the prior version. It is sent
to a library archive that we have been linked to. We have had a very
positive collaboration, but I don't think there has been any overlap. In fact,
our DSpace collaborations have been one of the points of real synergy as we are
dropping our archive courses into that system.
...One of the ways we are
hoping to sustain this it will be with hybrid funding that will be partly MIT in
a general budget funding, partly appropriate corporate sponsorships that we
would recognize on the site, donations made through the site by users, and
support from alumni since they love it so much. MIT is committed to
sustain it, but we are trying to minimize the amount of money that has to come
out of the MIT budget.
...I think the law school should lead the
way for Harvard and decide to develop an Open Courseware. There has been no law
content out there yet in Open Courseware. You would be the first of the law
schools.
MIT OpenCourseWare:
<http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html>
Berkman
Center's H2O Project:
<http://h2obeta.law.harvard.edu/home.do>
Harvard
University Internet & Society Conference 2007: Knowledge Beyond
Authority:
<http://www.is2k7.org/>
A
Crowd of One - The Future of Individual Identity
By John Clippinger
A
Crowd of One is an attempt to instigate a new kind of "Post Enlightenment"
narrative about how we think about human nature, our social economic and
political institutions - and our individual and collective identities. The goal
is to get beyond simplistic Enlightenment dualisms - individual versus group -
emotion versus reason - determinism versus free will - self-interested versus
other regarding - rationality versus "irrationality" - Hobbesian "state of
nature" versus civilized order.
It is not that Enlightenment thinking is
a thing of the past - it still is vital part of current understanding of
ourselves - how we frame our political and cultural debates, how we imagine our
futures, how we define and defend who we are. Yet it is wrong, profoundly wrong,
and as long as it is unconsciously or blindly adhered to and reflexively obeyed
- we will not meet the challenges of the 21st century.
Once a mysterious
"black box" - the workings of the human brain are becoming documented - visible
- comprehensible - accessible. Reason is not separate from emotion - Descartes
was wrong. The most important decisions we make - whom we trust - give our
lives for - marry - etc are more often than not the product of rational thought
but emotive reflex from one of the oldest - parts of the brain - the Amygdala.
We are not inherently selfish creatures - but more often than not cooperative
creatives - not because we are inherently good or bad - but because it leads to
what are called Evolutionary Stable Strategies - outcomes that further the
welfare of the group and the species. At great expense, we have evolved "mirror
neurons" that give us the capacity for empathy - something that Adam Smith in
his book, Moral Sentiments, felt was a key requirement for markets and social
cooperation. Note that Smith did not extol rationality as the key motivator and
glue of human sociality - and economic specialization - but moral sentiments -
emotions.
Next Americans tend to think of individuality as something that
is individually constructed and asserted. Certainly, the Libertarian view - is
that I alone am responsible for what I am - that the group - the state - is
something that infringes upon and dilutes individual freedom - and that the
individual alone should reap the fruits of their own efforts - any less is
theft. From an evolutionary and neuroscience point of view - the identity
and proficiency of an individual is derived from their interaction with a group
- from family, clan, tribe or society. Feral children - those raised in the a
real state of nature without benefit of human interaction do not develop the
most elemental traits that we regard as human - language - higher level
cognition - sense of self as a human being - are even severely stunted in the
physical development. Individual identity is embedded, contextual and
mutually constructed through ones actions and interactions in the different
social networks one is born into or participates. Even one's role in a social
network - especially early childhood networks are allotted by the more
influential and powerful members of the network - parents, relatives, alpha
members.
Even David Brooks - conservative U of Chicago grad -in a recent
editorial in the New York Times - acknowledges - begrudgingly that a new
narrative is in the making.
"The logic of evolution explains why people
vie for status, form groups, fall in love and cherish their young. It holds that
most everything that exists does so for a purpose. If some trait, like emotion,
can cause big problems, then it must also provide bigger benefits, because
nature will not expend energy on things that don't enhance the chance of
survival.
"Human beings, in our current understanding, are jerry-built
creatures, in which new, sophisticated faculties are piled on top of primitive
earlier ones. Our genes were formed during the vast stretches when people were
hunters and gatherers, and we are now only semi-adapted to the age of nuclear
weapons and fast food.
"Furthermore, reason is not separate from emotion
and the soul cannot be detached from the electrical and chemical pulses of the
body. There isn't even a single seat of authority in the brain. The mind emerges
(somehow) from a complex light show of neural firings without a center or
executive. We are tools of mental processes we are not even aware of."
I
for one welcome this insight into our natures and actions - because we no longer
need to be automata of our species. By understanding the workings of our natures
and the forces that shape our natures - we can now use science to break the
"cycles of violence" in Hobbesian traps - get beyond our Pleistocene reflexes
and start to evolve ourselves and our institutions in a way that is neither
destructive our planet ourselves for that matter.
By and experimenting
and evolving in digital time - through virtual worlds - we can accelerate our
learning.
John Clippinger's latest work, A Crowd of One: The Future of
Individual Identity, was released this April by Public Affairs
Books.
Video of John's book release and discussion (RealPlayer
format):
<http://www.law.harvard.edu/media/2007/04/19/berk.rm>
About
John Clippinger:
<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/john_clippinger>
Berkman
Books Page:
<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/books>
Everything
is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder
By David
Weinberger
We're very good at organizing things in the real world.
Whether we're organizing a kitchen or laying out a new corporate head quarters,
we have a variety of sophisticated techniques that we're perfectly at home with.
But, whether we arrange things alphabetically, by size, or by pecking order,
when it comes to real objects, we always have to follow two basic principles:
Everything has to go somewhere, and no thing can be in more than one place.
That's just how reality works.
But in the digital world we're freed from
those restrictions. Whether we're organizing our downloaded songs, digital
photos, an online store, or entire libraries of scientific information, we can
put our electronic stuff into as many electronic folders as we want. If your
catalog of engineering equipment is on line, you can put, say, a bolt into
electronic bins according to size, material, cost, quality, and whether it's
been approved for outdoor use. In fact, you don't even have to decide for your
users which categories make sense. You can let them create their own categories
by "tagging" electronic items however they like. At Flickr.com, for example,
people tag photos with whatever will help them find those photos again, and
users tag the millions of books cataloged at LibraryThing.com. Because these
tags are public, you can click on one and find all the photos or books that
others have tagged that way. This can be a powerful way to browse and an even
more powerful way to do research collectively.
The alternative at such
sites would be for the owners of the site to create their own taxonomy of
categories. But every way we classify represents a set of interests. No taxonomy
works for all interests and for all ways of thinking about a domain. For
example, the vendor selling hardware such as bolts can anticipate that sometimes
we'll want to search by size, but not that someone is going to want to find a
bolt to use as a gavel in a dollhouse or a bolt with a particular electrical
resistance. There are an infinite number of ways we may want to slice up our
world because there are an infinite number of human interests. In the physical
world, we have to pick one, so we have expert taxonomists who make the best
decision. But in the digital world, we can leave all the digital objects as a
huge miscellaneous pile, each tagged with as much information about it as
possible. Then, we can use computers to slice through the miscellany, organizing
on the fly according to the categories that matter to us at that moment. So, it
turns out that while the miscellaneous box represents the failure of real world
organizational schemes, it is how digital organization succeeds.
This has
an unsettling effect since we have large institutions that get much of their
value -- and their authority -- from their privileged position as organizers of
information. For example, the most prestigious position at a newspaper belongs
to those who decide what goes in and which stories go on the front page.
Likewise, businesses influence our decision processes by artfully arranging
their offerings, and educators decide what will be taught and how topics relate.
Now that the users and readers are able to do that for themselves, authority is
rapidly shifting from those institutions to the new social networks through
which we're figuring out how to put things together for ourselves.
We are
rapidly developing new principles and techniques for figuring out how to make
sense of the miscellaneous so that it is more responsive to our needs,
interests, and points of view. While the technology that's emerging is powerful
and fascinating, the more important change is occurring at the level of
institutions and authority. That's where we'll see the real effect of the
miscellaneous.
David Weinberger's latest work, Everything is
Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder, is available May 1st from
Times Books.
Everything is Miscellaneous Blog:
<http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/>
About
David Weinberger:
<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/david_weinberger>
Berkman
Books Page:
<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/books>
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NETWORKED: PAPERS, BOOKMARKS, WEBCASTS, PODCASTS, TAGS, AND BLOGPOSTS
Links
to Berkman conversations happening online
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Internet Politics, Governance, and Regulation:
[BLOGPOST] Wendy
Seltzer documents her fair use saga with the NFL.
*<http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/archives/DMCA.html>
[PODCAST]
Harvard Law panel discussion on the firing of eight U.S. Attorneys.
*<http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mediaberkman/2007/03/17/harvard-law-school-discussion-on-us-attorney-firings/>
[PODCAST]
Web of Ideas: Does Participatory Culture Lead to Participatory Democracy?
<http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mediaberkman/2007/03/28/does-participatory-culture-lead-to-participatory-democracy-2/>
[WIKI]
Professor John Palfrey's course on Internet, Law & Politics.
*<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ilp2007/Main_Page>
Citizen
Media and the Future of Journalism:
[WEBSITE] Principles of Citizen
Journalism.
*<http://www.citmedia.org/principles>
[REPORT]
Citizen Media: Fad or Future of News?
*<http://www.kcnn.org/research/citizen_media_report/>
[WIKI]
Blogging Code of Conduct.
*<http://blogging.wikia.com/wiki/Blogger%27s_Code_of_Conduct>
Security
and Anonymity:
[PODCAST] Microsoft Associate General Counsel, Ira
Rubenstein discusses privacy policies.
*<http://media-cyber.law.harvard.edu/VideoBerkman/Ira_Rubenstein_2007-03-09.mov>
[BLOGPOST]
StopBadware.org: Malicious hacking, one site's story.
*<http://blogs.stopbadware.org/articles/2007/03/26/malicious-hacking-one-site%E2%80%99s-story>
[WIKI]
Project VRM (Vendor Relationship Managment).
*<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Main_Page>
Knowledge
Beyond Authority, IS2K7 Conversations:
[PODCAST] Gavin Yamey of the
Public Library of Science on Open Access, Part I.
*<http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mediaberkman/2007/03/17/opening-up-to-open-access-part-one/>
[PODCAST]
Social Tagging @ Harvard with Michael Hemment, Part I.
*<http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mediaberkman/2007/03/30/social-tagging-harvard-part-i/>
[QUESTION
TOOL] Interactive questions to steer the conference.
*<http://www.is2k7.org/qlist>
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Global Voices:
Digital Dose of Global
Conversations
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David Sasaki, Global Voices Director of Outreach, put together the
monthly digest below, a collection of links to the most interesting
conversations happening in the global blogosphere. Please check out Global
Voices here: <http://www.globalvoicesonline.org>
France’s
first round presidential election not only brought a record turnout of voters to
the polls; it also inspired a wealth of commentary from Francophone bloggers in
locations as diverse as the Congo, Morocco, Lebanon, Tunisia, the Caribbean, and
Tahiti. Thanks to Jennifer Brea’s faithful translations and added context, we
too can take part in the conversation.
<http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/04/26/the-french-presidential-election-a-view-from-outside-the-metropole/>
Bangladesh’s
military-backed caretaker government, brought to power in the January 11 state
of emergency, is continuing in its efforts to end a history of partisan deadlock
by exiling two icons of the country’s biggest party rivalry. Rezwan sums up what
Bangladeshi bloggers think of the forced exile of Sheikh Hasina Wazed and Begum
Khaleda Zia.
<http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/04/24/bangladesh-the-politics-of-exile/>
Brazilian
netizens, already infamous for their domination of Google’s social networking
site, Orkut, are now getting ready to stake their claim in the digital world’s
most popular virtual reality, Second Life. Jose Murilo Junior and fellow
Brazilian bloggers describe the island geography of Second Life Brasil while
noting that much of “the buzz around the inauguration of Brazilian Second Life
is its strong connections with big advertisement agencies dealing with advanced
marketing strategies.” Even the Catholic Church is looking toward the three
dimensional online environment as a cyber place of proselytizing
potential.
<http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/04/25/second-life-brings-its-second-life-to-brazil/>
Boris
Yeltsin was more than just Russia’s first president, he was also a 20th century
icon of global transformation, or, as one writer put it, the beginning of the
end of history. Veronica Khokhlova presents us with translated excerpts of how
Russian bloggers responded to his death.
<http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/04/23/russia-reactions-to-boris-yeltsins-death/>
In
a follow-up post to his query on why some jailed bloggers and online activists
receive more international support than others, Sami Ben Gharbia draws our
attention to a long list of persecuted internet activists from Egypt, Syria,
China, Algeria, Malaysia, and Tunisia who all deserve our support and
advocacy.
<http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/04/21/online-freedom-for-all-some-cases-worth-supporting/>
John
Kennedy introduces us to Huseyin Celil, an ethnic Uighur originally from China’s
largely Muslim northwest and now a Canadian citizen, who was sentenced to life
imprisonment last week in a Chinese court after his 2006 extradition from
Uzbekistan. “Two questions around which the controversy revolves:” explains
Kennedy, “does the Canadian government not worry about granting citizenship to
Chinese criminals, or is the Chinese government making these charges up?”
<http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/04/23/china-blame-canada/>
The
headlines themselves are great fodder for late night talk show hosts (no more
gold teeth, a nationwide student dress code, a ban on book day, no cell phones
at schools, no more Russian last names), but is Tajik President Rakhmon’s latest
batch of legislation paving the road for sustained authoritarianism or
post-Soviet nation building?
<http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/04/19/tajikistan-cultural-faux-pas-or-nation-building/>
In
his first post as Japanese Language Editor, Chris Salzberg provides us with some
interesting data about what language actually dominates the global blog buzz.
Here is how Japanese bloggers themselves reacted to their unexpected
domination.
<http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/04/16/japan-number-1-language-of-bloggers-worldwide/>
To
subscribe to the Global Voices update, sent once each weekday, please click
here:
<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/subscribe/globalvoices-update>
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COMMUNITY LINKS:
Featuring our friends and affiliates
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**NEW** Global Voices website
<http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/>
Congresspedia:
the "Citizen's Encyclopedia on Congress"
<http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congresspedia>
Assignment
Zero: Pro-Am Journalism Opens on the Web
<http://zero.newassignment.net/>
Yale ISP Access to Knowledge Conference 2007
<http://research.yale.edu/isp/a2k/wiki/index.php/Yale_A2K2>
General
Public License, version 3 open-editing
<http://gplv3.fsf.org/>
World
Economic Forum's Global Information Technology Report 2006-2007
<http://www.weforum.org/en/initiatives/gcp/Global%20Information%20Technology%20Report/index.htm>
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UPCOMING
CONFERENCES
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Featured
Conferences:
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* May 18: OpenNet Initiative
- The Future of Free Expression on the Internet: Global Filtering Conference
2007 - Oxford, England:
<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/oniconference07>
**ACCEPTING REQUESTS FOR WAITING LIST**
* June 1: Internet & Society
Conference 2007: UNIVERSITY: Knowledge Beyond Authority - Cambridge, MA:
<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu>
**REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN**
Upcoming
Conferences:
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* May 2: Future of Music
Coalition and American Constitution Society's Music, Technology and IP Policy
Day - Washington, DC:
<http://www.futureofmusic.org/events/dcpolicyday07/index.cfm>
*
May 3-4: Webvisions - Portland, Oregon:
<http://webvisionsevent.com/>
*
May 7: Open Possibilities at Community One - San Francisco, CA:
<http://developers.sun.com/events/communityone/index.jsp>
*
May 8-12: International World Wide Web Conference - Alberta, Canada:
<http://www2007.org/>
* May 18:
OpenNet Initiative - The Future of Free Expression on the Internet: Global
Filtering Conference 2007 - Oxford, England:
<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/oniconference07>
* May 18: The International Free of Kings Build-It! Conference -
Olympia, Washington:
<http://www.freeofkings.org/>
*
May 18-20: International Summit for Community Wireless Networks - Columbia,
Maryland:
<http://www.cuwireless.net/summit>
*
May 25: Second Life International Education Conference: Best Practices in
Teaching, Learning, and Research:
<http://slbestpractices2007.wikispaces.com/>
*
May 25: The Social Impact of the Web: Society, Society, Government and the
Internet:
<http://socialimpact.eventbrite.com/>
*
May 29: Wall Street Journal's D5: All Things Digital - Carlsbad,
California:
<http://d.wsj.com>
* May 29: LAB on
MEDIA and Human Experience - Amsterdam, Netherlands:
<http://www.clubofamsterdam.com/event.asp?contentid=657>
*
May 29-30: Netsquared: Remixing the Web for Social Change - San Jose, CA:
<http://www.netsquared.org/2007/conference>
*
June 4-6: Publishing for Impact: A Conference for Mission Driven Non-profit Book
Publishers - Washington, DC:
<http://2007.publishingforimpact.org/index.php?c_ID=10>
*
June 7-8: Teaching w/ Technology Idea Exchange: The Open Conference on
Technology in Education - Orem, Utah:
<http://www.ttix.org/>
* June 13:
NMK Forum 2007: What Comes After Content? - London, England:
<http://nmkforum.co.uk/>
* June
13: Edutainment 2007: The 2nd International Conference of E-Learning and Games -
Hong Kong, China:
<http://www2.acae.cuhk.edu.hk/~edutainment2007/>
*
June 14: 3rd International Conference on Open and Online Learning - Penang,
Malaysia:
<http://icool.uom.ac.mu/2007/user/index.php?c=1>
*
June 15-17: iCommons Summit 2007 - Dubrovnik, Croatia:
<http://icommons.org/isummit-07/>
*
June 20-22: Supernova 2007 - San Francisco, CA:
<http://www.supernova2006.com/go/venue>
*
June 23: First International Workshop on Digital Libraries Foundations -
Vancouver, CA:
<http://www.delos.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=576&Itemid=313>
*
June 20-27: American Library Association Annual Conference 2007 - Washington,
DC:
<http://www.ala.org/ala/eventsandconferencesb/annual/2007a/home.htm>
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