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...Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School has launched a new Web site, Mediacloud.org, that will allow scholars and Internet users to monitor the flow of news and ideas online...
...debate over the journalistic integrity and relevance of blogs has too often relied on “marshalling anecdotes” and has lacked quantitative evidence, said Ethan R. Zuckerman, a Berkman Fellow who was one of the developers of the site...
...Berkman Center Web site seeks to compile data on web access and censorship around the globe. Herdict.org—whose name is a portmanteau word of “herd” and “verdict”—allows Internet users to record when a Web site appears inaccessible to them. They can also see if other users around the world are experiencing the same problem, creating a real-time database that catalogues and monitors which Web sites are down or restricted. By calling on Internet users to report their experiences, Herdict utilizes a burgeoning...
...Harvard Law School announced a new fellowship position last week that will be funded by Cooley Godward Kronish, a technology-focused law firm. The fellowship will be aimed at establishing a closer link between the organizations. The clinic—part of the Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society—defends anonymous online posters against legal demands for their identities, negotiates online music and software licensing agreements, and explores issues such as internet surveillance and the influence of the internet on democracy, according to its director, Phillip R. Malone ’81. Cooley, Godward...
...than the merits of the claims.” According to recent estimates by the Web site Silicon Alley Insider, Facebook, Inc. was valued at $4 billion. Harvard Law School Professor Phillip R. Malone ’81, the director of HLS’s Cyberlaw Clinic at the Berkman Center, said that the settlement was smaller than ConnectU may be entitled to should their claims be true. He said parties often consider more than the just the odds of winning when deciding whether to settle. “[The situation] was becoming a taint on Zuckerberg?...