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Charles Nesson, co-founder and faculty director, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School
Nesson delivered a brief and powerful address about the rhetorical space of the Internet, the central value of openness and the challenge posed by those who would curtail that openness. He spoke about universities and the mandate to create an “open [...]

Beyond Broadcast organizers offered the option of several loosely structured “idea generating/networking” dinners last night for conference attendees. I “moderated” a discussion among six individuals, based generally on the following question: how do we get the best content from our listeners? Participants included Josh Andrews of Chicago Public Radio, Jessica Duda of the Center for [...]

Hargittai spoke about a second digital divide - based in large part on education and skills at using and understanding devices. She says differences in skill, not just access, may contribute to digital inequality. She recommends that training be a part of the picture.

Tom Gerace (Gather.com), Thomas Kriese (Omidyar Network), Brendan Greeley (Radio Open Source), Rhea Mokund (Listenup.org) Moderator: Ethan Zuckerman (Global Voices, Berkman Center)
Brendan Greeley explained Radio Open Source’s approach to community media. The goal was to have the blog be the center, with the show as the outgrowth. Blogs are the new talk radio. Blogs [...]

Moderator: Peter Armstrong of oneworld.net; participants Skip Pizzi (Microsoft, and Radio World Magazine), Paul Jones (ibiblio)
Armstrong began by arguing, persuasively, that the BBC’s content initiatives (The Creative Future) is less a dialogue with the audience and more of a continuation of audience interaction that the BBC has offered before. Armstrong says that’s because the BBC’s [...]

Filmmaker Deborah Scranton (The War Tapes) collaborated with soldiers in Iraq, who filmed their service. She worked with them over the Internet, rather than going to Iraq herself so she could stay out of the story and not interfere directly in the soldiers’ storytelling. She spoke about working with the soldiers, winning their trust, and [...]

Christopher Lydon, moderator; Bill Buzenberg, Minnesota Public Radio; Terry Heaton, Donata Communications; David Liroff, WGBH
Bill Buzenberg spoke about Public Insight Journalism: “for every story, someone in our audience knows more than we do”, their use of “idea generators” like The Future of Small Towns. Those ideas become reports and series on-air, become comments online, become [...]

Keynote: Reinventing the Gatekeeper
James Boyle, Center for the Study of the Public Domain, Duke Law School
We’re bad at predicting the future of technology; we have to understand that and the policy implications of it.
The inability to see the potential of commons-based media: we are blind to the opportunities this kind of media offers at every [...]