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Is scholarly research being held hostage by the academy? Some seem to think so, and some are doing something about it, by creating a new model for the scholarly publishing industry – called Open Access. The Open Access model offers scholarly work free of charge and free of copyright online. However, achieving Open Access may be easier said than done.
Last week Peter Suber, Senior Researcher at SPARC gave a great presentation at Harvard University (check it out here), so we thought we’d pick his brain for a bit on the battle for Open Access.
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Podington Bear – “Jackie and Floyd”
My Morning Jacket – “One Big Holiday”
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March 3rd, 2009
“Secrecy” Directors Peter Galison and Robb Moss join a roundtable discussion with professors Jack Goldsmith, Martha Minow, and Jonathan Zittrain on the vast, invisible world of government secrecy.
March 3rd, 2009
The government keeps secrets. We take that for granted. But should we? Some speculate that intelligence agencies and elected officials are a little bit trigger happy with the “Top Secret” stamp, and that society would benefit from greater openness. With the government classifying millions of pages of documents per year – in a recent year the U.S. classified about five times the number of pages added to the Library of Congress – a great deal of useful human knowledge gets put under lock and key. But some argue that secrecy is still crucial to our national security.
Radio Berkman pokes its head into a recent talkback with the directors of the film Secrecy, Harvard University professors Peter Galison and Robb Moss. They are joined by Harvard Law School professors Jonathan Zittrain, Martha Minow, and Jack Goldsmith.
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Check out Secrecy, now on DVD
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General Fuzz: “Cream” and “Walking Home”
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February 24th, 2009
Chris Riley, Policy Counsel at Free Press, gives a brief history of the Comcast proceeding and other net neutrality legal efforts, and then dives into a substantive policy discussion of present and future Congressional and Commission net neutrality proceedings.
February 13th, 2009
A first glimpse into the challenges and opportunities the Berkman Center faces in 2009, with the Center’s new Executive Director, Urs Gasser.
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Brad Sucks – “Gasoline”
Greg Williams – “Teagarden Blues and Rain”
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February 4th, 2009
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Dickens would be proud. Well, maybe not so much. In this, our last episode of the year, Radio Berkman visits with the ghosts of Media’s Past, Present, and Future. We hear from Berkman fellow Persephone Miel, lead author on the Media Re:Public paper series which examines the impact of participatory journalism on the information environment. Patricia Aufderheide, Director of the Center for Social Media at American University discusses the release of the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video which made a huge splash this year. And Jessica Clark, Director of the Future of Public Media Project and editor-at-large of In These Times discusses what the future might hold for public broadcasting, and offers her top five predictions for digital media in 2009.
Whew! Quite a show!
Here are some links to some media sites discussed in the show:
Vocalo: an experiment in community-created radio out of Chicago
Topix: a news aggregator, especially focused on local news
Spot.us: a community-funded news project
The Center for Social Media
and of course
Media Re:Public
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My Morning Jacket: One Big Holiday
Paul Westerberg: Looking Up In Heaven
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December 23rd, 2008
Q&A with Marshall Ganz and Jeremy Bird
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December 18th, 2008
Lots of video and audio from the past week coming your way. Keep an eye out for some great video from the Internet and Politics 2008 conference last week, as well as a terrific panel discussion from Larry Lessig and others out of the Creative Commons panel from last Friday.
December 18th, 2008
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A scheduled FCC vote on a free nationwide wireless internet, was derailed this week after outcry from the Bush administration, the ACLU, Congressional Democrats, and the digerati. What was it about the FCC’s proposal that raised the eyebrows of such a diverse group of opponents? David Weinberger interviews Stephen Schultze of the Berkman Center to find out more.
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Brad Sucks – “Fake It”
MCjackinthebox – “We are in Love”
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December 16th, 2008
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How the RIAA is attempting to enforce exorbitant fines on one file sharer, and the efforts of one law professor to take them down.
David Weinberger interviews Charlie Nesson and Joel Tennenbaum about their lawsuit against the Recording Industry Association of America.
CC-licensed music this week:
Brad Sucks – “Gasoline”
Greg Williams – “Teagarden Blues and Rain”
More on this case can be found here and here.
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December 2nd, 2008
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