{"id":711,"date":"2004-12-10T10:43:51","date_gmt":"2004-12-10T14:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/metasj\/2004\/12\/10\/bits-bytes-and-politibots\/"},"modified":"2004-12-10T10:43:51","modified_gmt":"2004-12-10T14:43:51","slug":"bits-bytes-and-politibots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2004\/12\/10\/bits-bytes-and-politibots\/","title":{"rendered":"Bits, Bytes, and Politibots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a690'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m at the Berkman conf for Internet and Society today, and mmm, is it<br \/>\na mixed crowd.&nbsp; Geeks, politicians, students and faculty of all<br \/>\nstripes.&nbsp; I have to run out again, so can&#8217;t stay for much of the<br \/>\nBiz lecture, but I&#8217;m sure a lot of people will be blogging it today.<\/p>\n<p>There was, however, a distinct shortage of people live-transcribing<br \/>\nwhat was going on, either on irc or elsewhere.&nbsp; I have yet to see<br \/>\na blog with more than just a passing quote&#8230; which is a real<br \/>\nshame.&nbsp; We should not let the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">luxury <\/span>of having the bandwidth for audio and video feeds (note that they still fuzz out, break, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">drag on and on<\/span>) preclude traditional, highly <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">transferable <\/span>and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">searchable<\/span>, methods of archiving.&nbsp; It&#8217;s like the pending archival doom of the digital age, redoubled upon itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m at the Berkman conf for Internet and Society today, and mmm, is it a mixed crowd.&nbsp; Geeks, politicians, students and faculty of all stripes.&nbsp; I have to run out again, so can&#8217;t stay for much of the Biz lecture, but I&#8217;m sure a lot of people will be blogging it today. There was, however, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-popular-demand"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-bt","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}