{"id":5,"date":"2011-09-15T01:07:10","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T05:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/andresmh\/?p=5"},"modified":"2011-09-15T03:19:56","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T07:19:56","slug":"all-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/andresmh\/2011\/09\/all-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"All roads lead to Berkman"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been hanging out at the Berkman Center for a few years now but this was my first week as a fellow. Meeting all the new people at the\u00a0lunch event on Tuesday made me realize how Berkman is some sort of intellectual hub of the Internet. Also, I am often surprised\u00a0 by how many know about Berkman and how many influential digerati are or have passed\u00a0 by Berkman at some point.<\/p>\n

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The diversity of backgrounds among the Berkmanites is also very telling of the type of people who are attracted to building and understanding the on-line world. Nicholas Negroponte once described the Media Lab as a place for misfits<\/a> and I think Berkman is another one of those places. We need more<\/a> places like these, places willing to host people unbounded by specific disciplines.<\/p>\n

But Berkman, like the Media Lab, is a transitional spaces for a lot of people. Where can these misfits go afterwards? I would like to know the answer to that. In the meanwhile, as I was trying to find a photo to accompany this post, I searched for\u00a0 “misfit” on Flickr<\/a> and I got a lot of pictures of cats!\u00a0 Coincidence<\/a>? I don’t think so.<\/p>\n

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Photo by ClintJCL<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been hanging out at the Berkman Center for a few years now but this was my first week as a fellow. Meeting all the new people at the\u00a0lunch event on Tuesday made me realize how Berkman is some sort of intellectual hub of the Internet. Also, I am often surprised\u00a0 by how many […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3887,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[53283,53282],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-multidisciplinary","tag-reflection"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/andresmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/andresmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/andresmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/andresmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3887"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/andresmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/andresmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/andresmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/andresmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/andresmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/andresmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}