{"id":451,"date":"2008-02-26T08:55:22","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T13:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nesson\/2008\/02\/26\/kick-ass\/"},"modified":"2008-02-26T09:10:50","modified_gmt":"2008-02-26T14:10:50","slug":"kick-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/2008\/02\/26\/kick-ass\/","title":{"rendered":"To: eon – Subject: kick-ass FCC event"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forwarded conversation<\/strong><\/p>\n

————————<\/p>\n

From: John Palfrey
\nDate: Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:53 PM
\nTo: Staff List , faculty , Berkman Fellows
\nCc: Tim Wu <\/p>\n


\nHi all:<\/p>\n

Today at the Berkman Center was wild, and quite wonderful. The FCC
\nhearing on network management practices brought an overflow crowd to
\nAmes Courtroom. We heard — and our own Yochai (and great friends
\nformer-HLS-student-now-bigtime-prof.. Tim Wu and
\nformer-HLS-student-soon-to-be-prof. Marvin Ammori) participated in —
\nthis crucial debate as it broke in real-time. It was terrific to see it
\nhappen here, as part of Berkman@10.<\/p>\n

What was not so obvious was the fact that we got an email about 2 weeks
\nago from the Chairman’s office asking if we could host this event. The
\nwork of Catherine, Colin, and literally the whole crew to pull off a
\n300+ person event with no notice and in the midst of lots of other
\nmadness (web site relaunch, other events, Berkman@10 planning) was
\nbreathtaking. I realize that this cost people around here sleep and
\nadded to gray hairs and so forth. But, wow, your work paid off today —
\nto have that issue, and that energy, on our watch, in our midst. Many
\nthanks.<\/p>\n

Best,
\nJohn<\/strong><\/p>\n

—
\nJohn Palfrey
\ne: jpalfrey @law.harvard.edu
\np: 617-384-9132
\nw: http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/palfrey\/<\/a><\/p>\n

———-
\nFrom: William Fisher
\nDate: Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 6:00 PM
\nTo: John Palfrey
\nCc: Staff List , faculty, Berkman Fellows, Tim Wu<\/p>\n


\nI want to add my thanks to John’s. It was an extraordinary event —
\nprobably the best governmental hearing I’ve ever attended. The
\ncombination of excellent panels and the freewheeling questioning by
\nthe commissioners was very informative. Thanks to all for putting it
\ntogether — so well and so fast.<\/p>\n

Terry<\/strong><\/p>\n

———-
\nFrom: Yochai Benkler
\nDate: Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 6:59 PM
\nTo: faculty @eon
\nCc: John Palfrey, Staff List, faculty, Berkman Fellows, Tim Wu <\/p>\n


\nJust to add my thanks. It was extraordinary to see how seamlessley this all
\nwent, and with what enormous turnout (including what seemed to be the Comcast Cheerleaders Brigade…) and crisp conversation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

———-<\/p>\n

From: John Palfrey
\nDate: Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 7:36 AM
\nTo: Staff , faculty , Fellows <\/p>\n


\nFrom our friend Tim Wu:<\/strong>
\nw: http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/palfrey\/<\/a><\/p>\n

—–Original Message—–
\nFrom: Tim Wu <\/p>\n

Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:32:39
\nTo:John Palfrey
\nCc:Staff List ,faculty ,Berkman Fellows
\nSubject: Re: FCC event today<\/p>\n


\nJohn,<\/p>\n

I doubt I can send a message to these lists, so could you forward?<\/p>\n

Hi everyone Berkman<\/p>\n

This is Tim Wu, once vaguely associated with Berkman. I felt the
\nBerkman center really did what it was invented for today –
\ncongratulations for hosting such a kick-ass event.<\/p>\n

The hearing was to my ears at least, riveting, and certainly much
\nbetter than the net neutrality shouting matches that are the
\nWashington DC staple. Much appreciation,<\/p>\n

TW<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tim Wu
\nwu @pobox.com<\/p>\n

—
\nwhen 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. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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