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...other fields, it's not so clear. In a critique of Benkler's work last summer, business writer Nicholas Carr speculated that Web 2.0 media sites like Digg, Flickr and YouTube are able to rely on volunteer contributions simply because a market has yet to emerge to price this "new kind of labor." He and Benkler then entered into what has come to be widely known in Web circles as the "Carr-Benkler wager": a bet on whether, by 2011, such sites will be driven primarily by volunteers or by professionals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Rich off Those Who Work for Free | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

...Gibson’s latest gore-fest “Apocalypto” opened alongside “Blood Diamond,” the violent liberal ego-stroker by Edward M. Zwick ’74, and movie observers pointed to a trend of serious violence in movies. David Carr, the New York Times’ so-called “Carpetbagger” (Oscar observer), wrote a column about how many movies tagged with the speculative title of “Oscar-worthy” are filled with blood...

Author: By Kyle L. K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: To Bleed or Not To Bleed? | 12/14/2006 | See Source »

...aforementioned article, Carr quotes Robert Rosen, Dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television: “Violence can be a corollary of gravity and seriousness… There is increasingly a choreography of violence, a way of aestheticizing it, that makes it more acceptable and worthy of recognition.” The problem with films like “Apocalypto” (and its forerunner, “The Passion of the Christ”) is that although they try to be serious, they invariably drown in the ‘aesthetics of violence?...

Author: By Kyle L. K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: To Bleed or Not To Bleed? | 12/14/2006 | See Source »

...votes, effectively ending Ignatieff’s chances of becoming prime minister if the Liberal Party takes back Parliament in the next election. Ignatieff—a prominent public intellectual who earned a PhD in history from Harvard in 1976—left his position as director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School last December and won a seat in the Canadian House of Commons. Although Ignatieff was the frontrunner in the party leadership race, other candidates swung their support to Dion in a last-minute turn of events. “What...

Author: By Jacob M. Victor, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ignatieff Loses Bid for Party Leadership | 12/4/2006 | See Source »

...turnout was great,” she said. “We were also excited about the diversity of the attendees—about 50 percent were Harvard students, and the others were from schools around Boston.” The director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Sarah B. Sewall ’83, delivered the keynote address, speaking about her path to Capitol Hill. Sewall served as President Bill Clinton’s deputy assistant secretary for peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance, as well as the senior foreign policy adviser to former Senate Majority Leader George...

Author: By Marie C. Kodama, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Flock to Non-Profit Job Fair | 12/4/2006 | See Source »

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