Posts under ‘Events’

I’m currently at the Free Expression in Asian Cyberspace conference in Manila, Philippines, with other prominent folks from the blogsphere, like Rebecca MacKinnon, Ethan Zuckerman, Jeff Ooi and Isaac Mao. You can check out the conference blog for a rundown of presentations on “Southeast Asia, South Asia and East Asia in Manila to share experiences […]

The Beyond Broadcast gathering will take place on May 12-13 in Cambridge, Mass. It’s not expensive, and we’re assembling a terrific group of folks. Here is the registration page.

I’ll be giving the third in a series of talks/conversations — this time will be much more in the seminar style than the previous events — at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society. It’ll be Wednesday evening at the center, starting at 7 p.m. There will be beverages and dessert-type munchies. If […]

I’m planning to attend Vloggercon in San Francisco this June. The organizers call this gathering the intersection between media-makers and technology. A space for dialog and interaction. Of creation and collaboration. A media village born on the internet, and making camp for one weekend in San Francisco. See (some of) you there…

I’m heading to Vermont today for a public talk tomorrow evening in Montpelier. It’ll be good to see some old friends.

We’re helping to convene Beyond Broadcast 2006: Reinventing Public Media in a Participatory Culture, a gathering on May 12-13 at the Berkman Center (Harvard Law School), where we will: explore the thesis that traditional public media — public broadcasting, cable access television, etc — face a unique opportunity to embrace new participatory web-based media models […]

Yale Information Society Project: Yale Law School will bring together leading thinkers and activists on access to knowledge policy from North and South, in order to generate concrete research agendas and policy solutions for the next decade.

The title is “Democracy and Independence,” and it’s taking place in Amherst, Mass., at the end of June.

A reminder to any Vermont friends that I’ll be giving a talk a week from Thursday evening at Vermont College in Montpelier. This is something of a homecoming for me, as I lived in Vermont for almost 15 years (longer than anywhere else) and worked at several papers there including the Times Argus in Barre-Montpelier.

I wish I could have attended yesterday’s “Un-Conference” about the future of journalism in Philadelphia, where a bunch of great folks met to discuss how a great American city can have great American journalism in an era when newspapers are coming under attack as businesses and news “consumers” (precisely the wrong word, which is why […]