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...handicaps the student government and its relations with the student body at Harvard. In today’s world of ubiquitous technology, students are used to turning to the internet to find detailed information about their friends, complete calendars of city events, and even “Live Blogs?? of campus events. This presents a tremendous opportunity for the UC to use the internet to connect with Harvard students by providing them with information about issues being debated at UC meetings, creating a forum for suggestions, linking to grant applications, compiling a calendar of Harvard events...
...ahead, say something,” opened its doors. By most counts, the launch went well for creators Harry I. Ritter ’06, Adam J. Katz ’07, and Jeremiah L. Lowin ’07. They convinced a few high-profile Harvard blogs??Cambridge Common, Red Ivy, and the IOP Forum blog among them—to relocate to the site, and an in-house discussion about the then-exploding Larry Summers controversy, Summersville, became a focal point for campus-wide discussion of the administrative goings...
...like to express their opinion in a real-time environment, keep in touch with what’s going on, and make their opinions heard quickly.”Andrew H. Golis ’06, the editor of Cambridge Common, said that part of the motivation for the blogs?? UC election focus was to broaden and clarify the discussion.“There are a group of people who find The Crimson’s coverage fairly superficial and meaningless,” said Golis, who co-created Cambridge Common last year as an alternative...
...Center’s authority over the blogs?? content was briefly tested in 2003 by Derek A. Slater ’05, who posted internal memos from Diebold Election Systems, an electronic voting machine manufacturer, on his Harvard-hosted weblog. The memos, e-mails in which the company appeared to admit flaws in its voting machines, used across the country, had already been revealed on several other bloggers’ sites. Slater copied some of these memos onto his site, now titled “A Copyfighter’s Musings,” making...
Winer—the founder and former CEO of UserLand Software, which specializes in programs for publishing blogs??created one of the first blogs on the Internet in 1996. He has already begun compiling a list of existing blogs at the University. The blog directory, which currently contains 29 listings, can be found at http://blogs.law.harvard.edu...