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...Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, our job is to understand and help the Web. In the early days of the Internet much of the innovation happened at the great engineering schools: MIT, Berkeley, Illinois, Utah, Carnegie-Mellon. Now the Internet is entering a new phase, and the action is in the humanities, the liberal arts, business, law, education, journalism, design, medicine, even religion and certainly politics...
Where much of what the Berkman Center does is defensive—protecting the Bill of Rights, especially the First Amendment, in the context of the Internet—I represent the offense. My job is to help people use the Web to exercise rights in clearly non-infringing ways. If the people I help get in trouble with the government, so the theory goes, our country and perhaps the world is in serious trouble...
...example of weblogs at work: In early April, Dean of Harvard College Harry R. Lewis ’68 published a letter about copyright on the Internet. Shortly thereafter Wendy Seltzer, a fellow at the Berkman Center, published a critique of Lewis’ policy. Seltzer is an expert on copyright on the Internet, and her opinion, very respectfully stated, while critical of Lewis, was of obvious interest to the community defined by our weblog. So I linked to Wendy’s piece, and the Dean’s letter, without comment, from the main Berkman weblog...
...this happened very quickly, in hours, and while the University has justifiably expressed an interest in our use of the Harvard name and logo, the comment from Seltzer, and our inclusion of it on the Berkman blog, caused no waves. I find this very gratifying—weblogs are playing a valuable role in respectful debate among powerful and informed people. The dean had to do his job, and we had ours. This is scholarly discourse in the age of the Web: it’s quick—and thoughtful. It’s everything I hoped it would...
...best ideas I’ve heard so far came from Mike Clough, a foreign policy expert I met at the Berkman Center. The idea is to somehow give a weblog to any New Hampshire voter who wants one, and then, much as I’m helping people at Harvard get started, to help the citizens of New Hampshire get started...