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To: eon – Subject: kick-ass FCC event

Forwarded conversation

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From: John Palfrey
Date: Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:53 PM
To: Staff List , faculty , Berkman Fellows
Cc: Tim Wu


Hi all:

Today at the Berkman Center was wild, and quite wonderful. The FCC
hearing on network management practices brought an overflow crowd to
Ames Courtroom. We heard — and our own Yochai (and great friends
former-HLS-student-now-bigtime-prof.. Tim Wu and
former-HLS-student-soon-to-be-prof. Marvin Ammori) participated in —
this crucial debate as it broke in real-time. It was terrific to see it
happen here, as part of Berkman@10.

What was not so obvious was the fact that we got an email about 2 weeks
ago from the Chairman’s office asking if we could host this event. The
work of Catherine, Colin, and literally the whole crew to pull off a
300+ person event with no notice and in the midst of lots of other
madness (web site relaunch, other events, Berkman@10 planning) was
breathtaking. I realize that this cost people around here sleep and
added to gray hairs and so forth. But, wow, your work paid off today —
to have that issue, and that energy, on our watch, in our midst. Many
thanks.

Best,
John


John Palfrey
e: jpalfrey @law.harvard.edu
p: 617-384-9132
w: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/

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From: William Fisher
Date: Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 6:00 PM
To: John Palfrey
Cc: Staff List , faculty, Berkman Fellows, Tim Wu


I want to add my thanks to John’s. It was an extraordinary event —
probably the best governmental hearing I’ve ever attended. The
combination of excellent panels and the freewheeling questioning by
the commissioners was very informative. Thanks to all for putting it
together — so well and so fast.

Terry

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From: Yochai Benkler
Date: Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 6:59 PM
To: faculty @eon
Cc: John Palfrey, Staff List, faculty, Berkman Fellows, Tim Wu


Just to add my thanks. It was extraordinary to see how seamlessley this all
went, and with what enormous turnout (including what seemed to be the Comcast Cheerleaders Brigade…) and crisp conversation.

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From: John Palfrey
Date: Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 7:36 AM
To: Staff , faculty , Fellows


From our friend Tim Wu:

w: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/

—–Original Message—–
From: Tim Wu

Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:32:39
To:John Palfrey
Cc:Staff List ,faculty ,Berkman Fellows
Subject: Re: FCC event today


John,

I doubt I can send a message to these lists, so could you forward?

Hi everyone Berkman

This is Tim Wu, once vaguely associated with Berkman. I felt the
Berkman center really did what it was invented for today –
congratulations for hosting such a kick-ass event.

The hearing was to my ears at least, riveting, and certainly much
better than the net neutrality shouting matches that are the
Washington DC staple. Much appreciation,

TW

Tim Wu
wu @pobox.com


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future of university

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invitation
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hear it now

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slideshow of open university opening up

GPSTSBusiness – 16 Feb 2008
subject Fwd: bracken on obama on the

i want license to use the wire in my online school. is this within the realm of fair use. i want colvin and pryzbylewski in my classrooms. i want to take it with me in a box to kingston prison and run my class for real in our prison lab. omar, as obama says, is a man of character playing by his code. the lessons of the wire are profound

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: wayne marshall
Date: 2008/1/15
Subject: bracken on obama on the wire!
To: Charles Nesson

http://bracken.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/what-obama-may-learn-from-omar/

meet boris

Forwarded conversation
Subject: virtual poker strategic thinking university
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From: Boris Kizelshteyn
Date: Dec 10, 2007 11:15 AM
To: nesson@law.harvard.edu

Greetings Professor Nesson!

As per my voice mail, I am back from vacation and am eager to get started on the virtual poker strategic thinking university project with you. Please get in touch with me at your earliest conveniance so we can discuss next steps. If you feel it would be useful I am available to meet with you in person early next week.

I am looking forward to hearing from you soon!

Best,

Boris Kizelshteyn
917-885-1233
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From: Boris Kizelshteyn
Date: Dec 17, 2007 4:57 PM
To: nesson@gmail.com, nesson@law.harvard.edu

Greetings Professor Nesson!

I am just trying you again regarding the virtual poker strategic thinking university in second life project we discussed in late November. I am certain that you are busy now with the end of the term, but I am quiet eager to meet with you again to discuss the project in greater detail and to schedule a trip up to meet you in the next few weeks.

Please get in touch with me at your earliest conveniance and we can discuss next steps.

All the best and Happy Holidays!
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From: Charles Nesson
Date: Dec 27, 2007 10:22 AM
To: Boris Kizelshteyn

ok, i am ready to talk. when would it be convenient for me to call, today or tomorrow.

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From: Boris Kizelshteyn
Date: Dec 27, 2007 11:27 AM
To: Charles Nesson

Hi Professor Nesson,

I am so pleased to hear from you, I am available to speak on the phone tomorrow morning at 9 or 11am. Do either of those times work for you? I can call you, just let me know which number to use.
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From: Charles Nesson
Date: Dec 27, 2007 11:36 AM
To: Boris Kizelshteyn

617 547 9469
9am
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From: Boris Kizelshteyn
Date: Dec 27, 2007 11:39 AM
To: Charles Nesson

I am looking forward to speaking with you tomorrow!
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From: Charles Nesson
Date: Dec 28, 2007 9:06 AM
To: Boris Kizelshteyn

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/cyberone/wiki/Evidence_2008
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/cyberone/wiki/GPSTS_Lecture_and_Discussion_Series
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From: Charles Nesson
Date: Dec 29, 2007 8:00 AM
To: Boris Kizelshteyn

i need a new courtroom
the courtroom on berkman island doesn’t work well
everything is far apart
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From: Boris Kizelshteyn
Date: Dec 29, 2007 8:05 PM
To: Charles Nesson

Hi Charles,

It would be a pleasure to re-design the courtroom. If you have some favorite courtroom configuration and design send me some pictures and I will let you know how much it will cost to re-create. Otherwise, let me know and I’ll google for pics myself.

I am excited at the prospect of working with you and proving myself as the vendor of choice for virtual worlds development at Berkman.

Looking forward to hearing from you soon,

Boris


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Berkman@10 Report

berkat10.jpg

the-mission.mp3 ten years out

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/cyberone/wiki/Magna_Carta

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/cyberone/wiki/Magna_Carta

this land is my land

THIS LAND IS BERKMAN
words and music by some fine (anonymous) fellows

This land is Berkman, this land is my land
From Catherine Bracy to Amar Ashar
From Charlie Nesson the dean of cyberspace
Berkman was made for you and me

As I was blogging on the (information) superhighway
I saw above me an ‘end to end’ way
I saw below me generativity
Berkman was made for you and me

This land is Berkman, this land is my land
From David Ardia to Ethan Zuckerman
From Colin MacLay to Senator Palfrey
Berkman was made for you and me

I’ve browsed and clicked through some useless EULAs
I’ve posted clips of NFL to YouTube
And all around me are Global Voices
Berkman was made for you and me

This land is Berkman, this land is my land
From Jake Shapiro to David Weinberger,
From Terry Fisher to other absent friends
Berkman was made for you and me

The Chinese censoring, kids downloading,
with Facebook tracking every movement
But we will fight on, all-a-twittering
Berkman was made for you and me

This land is Berkman, this land is my land
From Melanie Dulong de Rosnay to Corinna di Gennaro
From Yochai Benkler our bearded guru
Berkman was made for you and me

Berkman… was.. made.. for.. you and me

STAYING ALIVE

i feel like i’m trying to make a deal, trying to arrange the players in a game with civil rules top to bottom. poker is the model, a fair game fairly played.

Dear Professor Nesson,

It was a genuine pleasure to see you again and to participate in the GPSTS conference last Saturday. This was one of the most innovative and stimulating gatherings I have ever known. Bravo to you and Andrew!

I derived some insights that will be useful in my next book, Cubs Fans’ Leadership Secrets Revealed, which attempts to draw unusual yet pertinent lessons from another subject typically thought of as unrelated to leadership, policy, and the law. After all, as a lifelong Cubs fan, I yearn to see some good emerge from all that suffering. Your electrifying conference proved that poker can be the catalyst for mold-breaking ideas, and I feel inspired to do the same from within my perspective.

thank you john

I was honored to participate, Charlie. And of course I’d love to be involved
in that filmed history of hold’em. In the next day or so I’ll send what I
have on the subject.

Please tell Fern I appreciate her ordering the lobster roll, if only to make
me feel less unsophisticated. She’s a very cool lady indeed.

Andrew couldn’t have handled everything more thoroughly, or with more class.
He’s a genuine dynamo, and unobnoxiously smart on top of it all.

More after we unpack . . .

thank you jim

first meeting

exciting there last night, going around the room, listening to players we’ve got, sitting at round tables, just the right size for kids to meet and talk.
this is my evidence. this is why harvard law school is a good place to be. chet’s video of the event now to go to rochelle, meet me at berkman at ten and we’ll go to the editing deck, andrew a star among stars, we are producing, then to elizabeth and her team dean and paul irish, and bang, we are up on the net. i showed them our chip set, cc on the back of our global strategic thinking society. gpsts.org
dinner after with anne peretz and fern.

channeling charlie


the dot is not knowledge, the dot is us, we are knowledge
we are dots in small world networks of a large world network
we are the dot at the center of lessig’s matrix of what governs us

flat on my back with laptop propped before me
two excellent lines of staples lacing up my groin
in the aftermath of is2k7 wondering what happened in the afternoon
after i adjourned to the operating room
the archive of what was recorded not up yet

i wanted to write something to express my thought but wanted first to listen again to ethan’s lead off response to jp. i felt identity forming, not yet coalesced, but becoming self aware

university is a concept we express. we testify to it. we reify it with our thought and action.

nicolas negroponte
hero all around

we express it in our conference
stucture substance trajectory
we express it in our selves

now listening to my own mp3 recorded through the telephone
derek bok
mission of university
discover knowledge for its own sake
renew culture
advance civilization
achieve greater understanding of our heritage
explore the deepest problems of human existence

which reminds me, here are my notes from friday morning

TECHNOLOGY IS OUT TO FUCK YOU!

arghh!!

/anger

/shrug

just listening to derek and steve respond to terry’s questions at the outset value enough in the day. I heard in their words a charter for the future. so wonderful to here derek’s deep friendly voice speak as champion. so great to hear steve back him up with truth and science.

excellent start

what an amazing feeling to be lying on my back listening to the unfolding audio of our conference, imagined as a future event, virtual in the mind, real yet still i am imagining its reality

jp calls on terry. i’ve been there. i called on fred friendly once, him sitting in the audience yet present in my mind as dominating authority, had to wrestle to get it back

anne speaks. clear voice, moving forward, just the facts, 99.9% figure hits like a brick
way to go jp filling out .01 percent
it’s a seed

how are they registered, how are they identified, the citizen’s of the net
how will we be sure that they will stick to the use
how tight will be our information bubble in rhetorical space

just a hypothetical, humphrey bogart 20 seconds, will you do it, jeremy rises, can’t conceive of company denying, wrong of harvard counsel to ask, /clap

movie industry users of content, fighters for free speech

sid expounds harvard square principle, tells his course pak story, will he tell them that he just went ahead and copied
serious note, lack of clarity, hear fear, feel timidity

alex sounds a balance note, don’t destroy until you have new model

deighton doright’s after fame, as mercenary as anyone, hbs all the way, mammon plays his part.

okay time to turn to empathy, where is the heart of the struggling corporation, enough talking to ourselves. we need to hear from elsivier
jeremy, ys chi, the other lords of copyright came here to speak to us with us to listen. speak to us. deighton, be sure they get it out

imagine this as a kind of negotiating table, meta table
a lot of pain of university put on the table
there is pain on the other side
speak your pain
what do you want from us
what do you feel we have to offer
constitute negotiation at a meta table in second life even if just in imagination?
each affinity group controls its avatar
make an agenda, sit down and talk

will it violate chatham rules to put this on my blog? how might appropriate permission be given?

eon


when appropriate (in my judgment) to an open project and not sensitive (in my judgment) in terms of privacy, i may post email to my blog. all privacy requests respected.

wsj yay hay!

“>thank you neil
tall like cary grant
voice deep and resonant

poker:

The Online Etymology Dictionary
[snip]
poker (2) Look up poker at Dictionary.com
“card game,” 1834, Amer.Eng., perhaps from the first element of Ger. Pochspiel, name of a card game similar to poker, from pochen “to brag as a bluff,” lit. “to knock, rap” (see poke (v.)). Another version traces the word to Fr. poque, also said to have been a card game resembling poker. The earlier version of the game in Eng. was called brag. Slang poker face “deadpan” is from 1885.

bluff comes closer than bet to the essence of the game