Harvard to steward popular blog tool
News The Berkman Centre for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School is the new keeper of the specification for a popular Web log tool. The Berkman Centre took over ownership of the Really Simple Syndication (RSS) 2.0 specification this week after...
[July 21, 2003, 15:46]
Is eBay the future of Web politics?
News A panel of Internet gurus gathered on Friday at the fifth annual Votes, Bits & Bytes conference in Cambridge, Massachussetts, held by the Berkman Centre for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School to discuss the impact of Internet business models...
[December 13, 2004, 10:45]
Networks evade VeriSign's SiteFinder
News Some ISPs (Internet service providers) did block SiteFinder," said Ben Edelman, the principal author of the report and a student fellow at the Berkman Centre. Even before that step was taken, network administrators had disabled SiteFinder for about...
[October 7, 2003, 11:35]
Far-reaching censorship law challenged
News A February 2003 study from Harvard University's Berkman Centre for Internet & Society suggested that Yahoo hosted 74,000 Web sites at one address; Tucows used one address for 68,000 domains; and Namezero.com pointed 56,000 domains to one address.
[January 7, 2004, 10:05]
Bloggers threaten revolt after Google swaps standards
News In the past, Winer has answered charges that he exerted undue control over RSS by pointing to its transfer from UserLand, a blog software company he founded, to the Berkman Centre for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, where he is a fellow.
[February 12, 2004, 8:15]
Merger could end blog format war
News Dave Winer, a fellow at the Berkman Centre for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School who is commonly considered the arbiter of the RSS (Really Simple Syndication) format, proposed on his Scripting.com Web log that the format could merge with...
[March 10, 2004, 8:10]
Would you be lost without your PC?
News The vision (is) of someone glued to a chair, focused on a screen, interacting as an object, a person whose main identification is as a digital creature, who doesn't know what to do without a signal," said Zittrain, executive director of the...
[September 20, 2005, 17:20]
Massachusetts continues OpenDocument debate
News This is a hugely important topic and clearly one that is attracting international attention," said John Paltry, professor of law and executive director at Harvard Law School's Berkman Centre for Internet and Society.
[December 15, 2005, 9:05]
Open source InfoCard rival gets heavyweight support
News The initiative also includes the Berkman Centre for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School and Parity Communications, a company developing "social commerce" software that has been operating in stealth mode.
[February 27, 2006, 15:50]
