John Palfrey's Blog
John Palfrey’s Blog is the personal blog of John Palfrey, a Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Executive Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. John’s work focuses on Internet law, intellectual property, and the potential of new technologies to strengthen democracies locally and around the world.
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Tidbits from Navigate 2008 Day One
It's Day One at Navigate 2008. Trevor Hughes and his crack team at the IAPP have established a space for thinking not about what's urgeny, but about what's important when it comes to privacy. The key for the event is to think big about privacy. The goal ...It’s Day One at Navigate 2008. ...
Navigating Privacy
Jonathan Zittrain and I are headed up to seacoast New Hampshire to be the "curators" of the IAPP's new executive forum, Navigate, for the first few days of the week. It's a beautifully organized program and a terrific line-up. It promises to be provocative and a lot of ...Jonathan Zittrain and I...
Digital Dossiers
Kanu Tewari, a Berkman Center intern with us from Egypt for the summer, has produced a fabulous video on the topic of one the chapters -- Dossiers -- in our forthcoming book, Born Digital. Kanu's blog post accompanying the video is here. (We build on the term "digital dossiers" popularized ...Kanu ...
Prof. Obama’s Con Law Exams
The most promising lawyer in my law school section, Jodi Kantor, dropped out after a semester to join Slate as a reporter. She's since become a big-shot at the NYT, now covering national politics. She's returned to her law school roots in writing about Sen. Obama's teaching of ...The most...
Two Videos: The Ballad of Zack McCune and Learning to Type with Diana Kimball
The Digital Natives project intern crew is astonishingly good this summer. They're showing off their creative skills by making videos about issues related to young people living with technology in wired societies. The first is by Diana Kimball, about how she learned to type. The second is ...The...
Entrepreneurship, the Patent Law, and Scale of Firms
I'm at a wonderful summer program hosted by the Kauffman Foundation on Law, Innovation, and Growth. They've convened a truly interdisciplinary crowd interested in how law can affect rates of innovation and growth. Many, though by no means all, of the conversations are about innovation in...
Join the Berkman Center
We seem, at the Berkman Center, always to be looking for more great people to join our team. A new opening: a clinical fellow in cyberlaw. The posting is here. The job would be great for an entrepreneurial lawyer who would like to teach law students applied cyberlaw in innovative ...We seem, at t...
Katie Salen, ed., “The Ecology of Games: Connecting Youth, Games, and Learning”
The first book that I read in the series of MacArthur/MIT Press's Digital Media and Learning series was "The Ecology of Games: Connecting Youth, Games, and Learning," edited by game designer and educator Katie Salen (open access version here). As with the other books in the series, it's a ...The...
Katie Salen, ed., “The Ecology of Games: Connecting Youth, Games, and Learning”
The first book that I read in the series of MacArthur/MIT Press's Digital Media and Learning series was "The Ecology of Games: Connecting Youth, Games, and Learning," edited by game designer and educator Katie Salen (open access version here). As with the other books in the series, it's a ...The...
Daniel Solove’s The Future of Reputation
The first book I've read in full on my Amazon Kindle is Daniel Solove's "The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet." It's a book I've been meaning to read since it came out; it did not disappoint. I was glad to have the joint ...The first book I’ve read in full on...
